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After at least 4 years of heavy use, my left mouse button finally ate the dust. It won’t click unless I really click hard (and forget double-clicking), and thus is dead for all intensive purposes.

It was a Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical, and I liked it, especially the scroll wheel. Anyone have any suggestions for a good replacement?

I’m also in the market for a new keyboard. If only IBM would just sell a desktop keyboard taken right out of their ThinkPads… apparently this is basically that. As long as I’m getting a new mouse… right?

I added a gallery for photos from Tellefsen Hall from the last few months. Included are Fall Formal, casino night, and gingerbread houses. I’ll continue to keep my personal photos separate on the photos page. Enjoy!

You may have noticed that this site has been flashing a little lately. I just realized this tonight, and I finally found out the problem was in the character endoding — it wasn’t being sent to the browser in the HTTP headers. Wordpress is supposed to take care of this, but I was compensating by using a meta http-equiv tag, which, when loaded, made the page flash. Annoyed the heck out of me.

It’s an easy fix if this is happening to you. Ideally you don’t want to change the code, but until they fix it this hack will work: go to line 118 in the file wp-blog-header.php and change it to read:

@header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

Of course, replace utf-8 with your preferred character set, even though that one is probably best. Et voila, no more flashing, and a nice and legal content-type.