I’ve been continuously making small updates to my site since I got back from my east coast conference. Believe it or not, I actually keep a list of enhancements and bug fixes myself and others have found and spend time implementing those items; the last two weeks, I revamped my journal search interface and added navigational arrows to journal entry pages as well as fixed up a few display bugs. If you have suggestions or find anything wrong, lemme know via comments, thanks.
Lately I’ve been trying to get myself more energetic and less…well, sleepy, at work and at home as well. I don’t get that many hours of sleep on weekdays (and as it turns out, I’m usually more tired than not the next day regardless of how many hours I get), and staring at thousands of lines of written code for hours on end doesn’t make things better.
Surprisingly, though, while I was out on the east coast working inside their offices, I actually did feel more energetic and was more productive. Perhaps it was the fact that all the senior managers were around or maybe it was the generous amount of coffee I ingested every morning; I’m going to say it was the natural lighting inside the private office that got me up and going quicker than usual. Back on the west coast, though, I’m stuck inside the common office cube (shame considering the gorgeous weather we have around here).
The end result is that I have more lamps, specifically white florescent lighting. I had already bought an Eclipse lamp made for LCD screens a while back for my Dell monitor, and I added a more powerful desk lamp in the office as well as another desk lamp at home. The idea is that the non-sickly-yellow lighting will look more natural and coax my eyes to relax and expend less effort. I’ll probably write about the results of this experiment in a few weeks.
I’ll end this post with an amusing picture I snapped in my hotel room the morning after I arrived:
