Back in the saddle . . . a few mundane thoughts.

[Richmond Mathewson]

So here I am working up lots of companion programs for
the course books I use in my language school with
Primary kids. Fairly mundane and humdrum, but the fact
that my school features some tatty old Pentium 3s
running Ubuntu and sporting my content reinforcement
programs sells the bl**dy place.

However I am greatly assisted by the following:

1. A Belkin Nostromo n52 gamepad;

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=157024

The best 40 bucks I ever spent . . .

Personally, I can't be bothered with computer games,
but the Nostromo Speedpad can be programmed for any
menu command you like - and makes a fantastic
difference with Runtime Revolution; and has saved my
wrists and shoulders.

2. As I program on a Mac for delivery on Linux I
usually take screen shots of text fields that are not
to be editable and import them into RR. By setting the
ScreenShot format to PNG on my Mac I don't need to
spend buckets of time changing graphic format with
Preview of GIMP - just import directly.

3. I have 2 monitors so that I can drop out of RR and
work with GIMP or somesuch else on the other monitor
while keeping my current work stack in full view.

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson


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