30Boxes!

30boxes.com is quite a find for an online calendar. I think this will work for my small office environment, which has 7 workstations, 8 employees, lots of appointments out of the office, with scheduling necessary all the time. Updates are almost immediate, and this calendar is simple to use while still having a ton of nice features. You owe yourself a look at 30boxes.com.

[update] stopped using, since there have been no updates.

Logitech Marble Mouse On Ubuntu 9.04

[I have a feeling this no longer works in 9.10, but I'm not sure yet]

Upgrading to Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) disabled the scrollwheel effect on my Logitech Marble Mouse USB, so I set out to find a cure. Here it is. Add the following file, "/etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi" (perhaps any title would do... I picked that one at random) consisting of the following text, then reboot. Of course, the formatting is hideous below, and all the line feeds need to be removed, but I can't figure out how to show this code snippet without formatting except in a textarea! (damn)

<br /> <deviceinfo version="0.2"><br /> <device><br /> <match key="info.product" string="Logitech USB Trackball"><br /> <merge key="input.x11_options.Buttons" type="string">5</merge><br /> <merge key="input.x11_options.ButtonMapping" type="string">1 8 3 4 5 6 7 2 9</merge><br /> <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge><br /> <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">8</merge><br /> <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">300</merge><br /> <merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge><br /> <merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge><br /> <merge key="input.x11_options.ZAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge><br /> <merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge><br /> </match><br /> </device><br /> </deviceinfo><br />

Liam improvements

Well, it's been a while since we had Liam, the Grandchild, over for the entire night. He seems to have improved immeasurably since the last time. His fussiness has vanished, he cried only after bonking his big head on the floor while attempting to crawl. He's quite close to crawling, which will create a whole new set of problems. Anyway, he slurped down his bottle after his bath, and went straight to sleep, and slept all night. This morning he woke around 7:30, just quietly babbling away in the crib, and after a while I got him up, changed him, we played a bit, then Gramma held him while he slurped down about half a bottle, and now he's napping. As I said, much improved over the last time.

Hopefully it's a trend.....