Another step in my mouse reduction:
Francis Tang: Geek Stuff | Win2k/XP Ctrl-Caps swap
XEmacs/Emacs users will understand this well: the Ctrl key is in the wrong position on modern PC 102 key keyboards. A better place for the Ctrl key is where it used to be, i.e. where the Caps key is now.
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Whoops, I’d been so busy posting on his blog, I never updated mine!
In my quest to reduce my mouse usage, I’ve been learning the keyboard shortcuts for Gmail. The j/k combo is easy for a vi user, but I learned about a new feature: Conversation Muting. By selecting a message with ‘x’, then pressing ‘m’, any replies to that conversation will skip the Inbox. A great time saver for people on busy mailing lists!
For my birthday present, Tracy’s Mom got me signed up for a wine tasting course. Tracy’s Dad got the same thing for his birthday present.
WCWED Courses: Wine Appreciation Courses and Workshops in Vancouver and Lower Mainland!
Top Rated Wineries of the Okanagan Workshop - Port Moody Offered through the Port Moody Arts Centre One Evening Course - Wednesday, March 28th 7pm to 9pm
It was a fun night, we tasted 5 wines:
They were fantastic wines, and the host, John Gerum, was very knowledgeable about local wines, and wine in general.
This is great news, I just got an email from Amazon Web Services with their new pricing. I wonder how much SmugMug will save now? Mr Zawodny’s going to have to redo his calculations now too. 
New bandwidth price (effective June 1, 2007)
$0.10 per GB - all data uploaded
$0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data downloaded
$0.16 per GB - next 40 TB / month data downloaded
$0.13 per GB - data downloaded / month over 50 TB
Data transferred between Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 will remain free of charge
New request-based price (effective June 1, 2007)
$0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests
$0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests*
* No charge for delete requests
Storage will continue to be charged at $0.15 / GB-month used.