Today was another work from the couch day. Although that was preceeded by work from the hard wooden benches since the little kids invaded the couches. Oh well, was still a lot nicer than the office, as it was a reasonable temperature. It got hot out today. I don't like when it hits the 90s in MN, as it's just too humid. A few months ago down south I would go spend all day outside in 90+ degree weather, but unfortunately we get humidity here. I did finally totally eliminate BETHEL_DOM today. Hopefully that'll cause less confusion, and creates a more stable and reliable architecture. I'm just glad our new architecture allows us to create central authorities better, as all the server renames mean people try to impersonate old ones (or name their computers things close like aval0n). Hopefully I can test and eliminate even more broadcast traffic by the time school starts. Other things today included finally cleaning up orphaned home directories after two account creations failed within a couple hours due to unknown home directories already existing. And this is the slow time, with only a few new accounts a day...

After work was movie night. As Dave mentioned we were geeking it up ahead of time, with even Ross joining in on keeping his nose in the laptop. The movie was So I Married an Axe Murderer. Good movie, if you thought you were too good to join us you missed a good time.

After the movie I started poking around with StumbleUpon as mentioned on Dave's site. It's an interesting idea, although it quickly served to point out how many web sites there are that just suck. That toolbar is huge too. Being bugged by the toolbar pushed me to start tweaking my desktop environment a bit. I started tweaking the dock a bit, and figured out how to get it smaller than the GUI will let you. I don't see why they limit the minimum icon size to 16 pixels (I'm used to my entire menu bar being 16 pixels high on a much higher res screen). No luck on changing the hide delay speed, so it'll have to stay visible rather than autohide for my sanity. No luck changing the menu bar or window title bar height either. Any thoughts there? I'd like them about half their default height... I did start setting up keyboard shortcuts, we'll see what that does. Started changing what appears in the finder windows and things. I noticed an interesting tendency to have options dupicated and some not really do what's intended. I also am not sure I like the duplicated roles regarding window management. It's sorta weird to be able to switch windows without quartz-wm running. Also killing the window manager really shouldn't make you log out, but whatever. I did poke around with delays on the backlight sensing to increase the delay (preventing screen activity from fooling it). Also finally got around to going and turning off that crazy backlight. It's a cool novelty thing, but sorta an annoying distraction to be able to see your keyboard when working in a darker environment. Ah whatever, I'm starting to get closer to the fence on whether it's worth trying to tweak OS X or just switch to linux where I can make my desktop responsive...