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My web-based task manager now supports OpenID as a login mechanism. Have at it.

The cake is a lie.

The latest release of gnome-terminal has removed the ability to disable the blinking cursor, which I had previously turned off. The only way to disable it is to disable blinking cursors in all text entry widgets. For some reason I prefer the cursor in text boxes to blink, but cannot stand a blinking terminal cursor. Every blink jars my mind and I lose focus, like someone’s looking at me waving his hands and yelling “hey!” every second.

Blink. Blink. Blink. Arrrgh.

Anyway, since the developers saw fit to remove this feature presumably under the GNOMEism of “keep things simple, users be damned,” I have coded a quick patch to permanently disable cursor blinking in gnome-terminal.

As frustrated as I am at what I think is a stupid decision, at least this is free software.

I’ve started a web-based task manager to get some experience with Prototype. It’s very fast so far and is relatively easy to build upon.

• Taking liberal arts classes because in someone’s opinion that’s somehow supposed to make me more of a person.
• Hearing from every one of my professors that their class is not only directly relevant to my life, but extremely important and that I’ll never forget it.
• Caring about school.
• Not caring about school.
• People thinking I should care about school.
• Homework.
• Beating myself up because I don’t care about homework.
• Feeling like I don’t need school.
• Feeling like a whiny, egotistical jerk because I feel like I don’t need school.
• The inescapable feeling that if I didn’t get out of bed for a week, less than five people would notice and fewer would care.

This morning I got up and was going to take a hot shower. I started to take off my shirt and in so doing I must’ve bent my neck funny because I felt a sudden shooting pain near my left shoulder. After I recoiled, the initial sharp pain died down and it was replaced by a very, very intense throbbing pain. I sat down as fast as I could and tried not to yell (it was that bad).

For the first ten minutes I could concentrate on nothing else; I was paralyzed from the pain. An hour later I took an ibuprofen when it wasn’t getting better. Finally I made an appointment with my university health services. After explaining the issue to the nurse, she recommended that I take two ibuprofen every four hours and…

Take a hot shower.