It still might be to early to pass judgment on the Touchstream, but several times this morning I have almost taken my old Apple keyboard and mouse out of the dresser drawer that I hid them in. There is not one thing that bugs me, it’s just that having to think about typing takes the fun out of using the computer. I’m actually back up to my old speed for normal typing, but so far programing is not fun. I’m going to give it at least on more day of programming before trying the old key board and mouse again.

Well, here is the quick review of my new Touchsteam SP ( not the iGuesturePad Salva was wondering about). I have had it less than a day now. so I might be more used to it later after the recommended weeks of getting familiar with it.

Gestures are great. Has to be my favorite feature. A swipe across and the window closes. A different swipe and and a new document opens. It’s like having Opera powers everywhere. The paste gesture is a work of art.

Mousing is not so hot. I feel like I have less control than with a normal mouse. I could be just not used to it yet (In fact. while typing this, I found a better way to mouse).

Keyboard is different. I decided to learn touch typing yesterday, and so I am very slow. I think with time I’ll like this keyboard. Right now I can’t keep up with a AIM conversation.

Yesterday, I made the major mistake of writing a small program in Ruby.It will take me a month to get back to writing PHP without thinking how easy things would be in Ruby.It is so pure and powerful. Everything else is looks like gunk.

You will have to pardon the lack of text in this entry, I am still learning how to type on this thing. :)

I’m waiting for the TouchStream keyboard to show up. UPS website shows that it has been on the truck for eight hours now. Hey, I think I hear a vehicle. ::Mutes itunes::. YES!!!!! I’m off to rush the UPS truck!!!!

So spent a grand total of three hours on the WebCam widget - and it seems to be one of the more popular things I’ve done. In today’s email I find:

bq. I am Toru AMEMIYA, an editor of a Japanese magazine called “MacPeople”. MacPeople is one of the most popular Macintosh-related magazines, and is published by ASCII Corp. bi-weekly.

bq. I would like to introduce your “WebCam” in our page on Mar. 13th, so would you give me your authorization to put your products on our article and to include it in the CD-ROM, please.

I just stumbled across Paul Graham’s website. His articles are dead on, and express clearly many of the things I’ve thought about. Here is a must read on why I like web programing. Here is one about why I love being home schooled, and usually feel like I’m walking among aliens when with “normal” high schoolers. Compare my favorite programing language, Ruby, with his list of reasons of Why Lisp Rocks.

Beautiful sunset tonight. I just hung out by the window and took pictures of it as it slipped away. Turns out Mom and one of my brothers were taking pictures as well down at the other house, so I’m not the only on that thought it was extra-super-konfabulas gorgeous.

Calling a day a “Long Day” is about the same as calling it a “Bad Day”. While it’s not always so, this evening I was looking back on something I had done a while ago - and realized I had done it this morning! Today “Bad” and “Long” went together. Bad days seem to have struck many other of people as well. Here’s the quick run down of what happend today.

• A bug in one of quicky programs wiped out the database, loosing a bunch of data. Real blow to the Ego. ( First mistake like this I have ever made - and last I hope.)
• Early this morning, while working at family business, I noticed that the aluminum I was working with, was acting weird. Kind soft like silly putty. I called my dad over, and we checked it. Way below hardness specs, and we had had to throw out about two thirds of the material. That extruding plant that made the stuff has some quality problems.
• [Shelley] Power’s interview
• And there was somthing else too. But it’s been too long of a day to remember it.  :)

I wonder, do “Bad Days” jump on the whole human race at the same time?

Yet another good color site.