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No articles this week. I tried to prepare something, but didn’t have enough battery life for the plane ride. Now, I’m in Maui and have a really full week. I doubt I will have time to write an article. So, I’m not going to make any promises. However, I will have another article for you all by next Tuesday ^_^.

I was hoping with the insane hours I worked last week, I would find some time to finish testing and debugging the Event package, but for every bug fixed, two more took its place. On the upside there will be a major new release for Mint this week. On the down-side I did not finish the article. So have to postpone it until Tuesday.

Thanks,
-matt

I have been a long time PC user (mostly because the vast majority of web users are on PCs) and have been in love with mouse gestures since first seeing them on a Linux machine. When the FireFox extension came out I immediately began to use them and life was great. Well, recently I switched to a mac (now that PC emulation is trivial) and of course I installed mouse gestures.

Unfortunately, the standard mac mouse only has 1 button, but you can use OSX to simulate a 2-button mouse. However, it isn’t very accurate and it is very easy to left-click when you mean right and right-click when you mean left. It also turns out that it’s easy to right-click, followed by a quick left-click, which I use as a shortcut for clicking the back button in the browser.

Where am I getting with this? Well, after spending 2 hours writing up a real post for today, I went to publish it and instead of left clicking, my mouse triggered the back button shortcut. And well, the rest is history… there went my blog entry.

What have I learned? Mouse gestures are not worth it on the mac and from now I will be writing my posts in a word processor before posting.

Sorry for the lack of posts last week. I was on vacation in the middle of nowhere Michigan and could not get any reception with my cellphone, which i often use as a modem when I am working remotely. Anyway, I am back now and plan to continue my series this week on Prototype vs. YUI. Also, I have decided to add a supplemental reading list, which will contain books that I have read and found useful.