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Wow, there's a lot of Web 2.0 stuff out there.

I haven't even heard of at least 90% of these services :-(

Whoops! IE7's incomprehensible error message.

You have to wonder just how well the security system of IE7 has been tested when they let an error message like this slip through. Go to a website with a self-signed SSL certificate and IE7 displays a page warning about it. Click on the "Continue anyway" link. then click the "Certificate Error" box in the ribbon area then click "Install Certificate" in the Certificates window that pops up. You are left with this:

I promised myself I wouldn't do it but I have. I've modified the layout to suit my typing style better. And to make it easier for Gentoo users, I have made some ebuilds for Colemak and my slightly modified version: Culemak.

Is the colemak layout really optimal for what I need to do? Today I went looking for some cold hard facts.

Lesson 5 brings 'p', 'l' as well as all the home row.

Current progress: Lvl 4, 134 cpm, 26 wpm, 88% accuracy; working on Lvl 5.

Three days in and I'm using the full home row.

I just graduated to Lesson 4 in KTouch so now I'm using all the keys on the home row in lessons. Typing speed in general is improving too. Today I didn't look at the new layout once and was able to visualise the location of most of the keys in my mind. It feels like I'm making real progress.

Things that still catch me:

After a failed attempt to switch to the Dvorak keyboard layout, a recent posting on Slashdot has got me looking at alternative layouts again, this time at Colemak.

The perils of upgrading TWiki on Gentoo.

One of the really cool things about Gentoo is it's webapp-config tool that allows you to run concurrent (or slotted) installations of different versions of the same web based application. For example, from one single instance of Apache, you can run numerous virtual hosts, each with a different version of TWiki.

I'm taking Michael Daum's BlogUp application for a spin to see what full markup blogging feels like.