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Friday, 3:54 pm in Geeking

I swear there’s something wrong with my monitor at work. I’ve been getting really bad eyestrain headaches every since I switched jobs. These are dreadful because not only do they make working really, well, uncomfortable, but they’re severely aggravated by driving which means that by the time 4:00pm rolls around, I can just about make it back to my own house (15-20 minute drive) but not much further. ~Mat [h] is about another 40 minutes away, through extremely thick traffic and it’s just all far too much. The headaches don’t hurt, exactly; they’re more of a tightness across my forehead and a discomfort in my eye sockets. The feeling is a bit similar to, I guess, feeling really tired, especially since closing my eyes helps relax them. The subconscious urge to “close my eyes, just for a moment…” is not really something you want to experience while driving, let me tell you (this is also one of the reasons I don’t long distance drive).

And yeah, I’ve been to the doctor about it; roughly three different ones over a period of four or five years. There’s no magic wand cure for it, it’s just some combination of bad focus, stress and looking at an overly-bright monitor for long periods of time. The headaches also give me junkie pupils (one contracted, one dialated), which has resulted several times in amusing situations with optometrists trying to figure out how to delicatley ask me if I’m “on any medication. You know, medication”.

Ironically, it’s working rather than gaming that aggravates it (trying to read text off a borad expanse of white screen), though no-one believes me.

I am thinking of switching to Firefox. Not from IE, which I haven’t used in… I dunno, longer than I can remember, but from Mozilla. I’m very attached to my Mozilla Suite, especially the browser which just has a few features that – last time I checked – Firefox doesn’t. The ability to just start typing in order to find text in a page is godly, and I don’t really like Firefox’s seperate search bar. Such little things.

I guess I should switch. Lesigh.

This afternoon I re-wrote sk.log’s RSS feed [ http://void-star.net/rss2.php ]" class="ext">RSS feed [ http://void-star.net/rss2.php ]" class="ext">RSS feed. I’m not happy with it; all the validators I’ve run it through say it’s valid, but the browser won’t mark it up properley. Alas an RSS reader isn’t part of our SOE here, so I can’t test it in a third party application until I get home. My guess – if I had to make one – would be that PHP isn’t sending the text/rss content-type header properley, but who knows. I’m too bleary-eyed to find out now. Scratch that, it works now. I think it was just IE being cachetarded. I still can’t get it to strip linebreaks out of the <description>s, though. Grr!

12 more minutes. 11 now.

… and now it’s 9.

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