Amanda CAARSON

Has been awake all night. Today will suck.”

This is not going to make for a very good work day later on. I got off work yesterday with a migraine, so I laid down after work hoping to let it run its course. Well, it seems to have run its course, but now it’s 03:00, and I’m wide awake, even though I should be sleeping. It is Wednesday though, which means I’m almost halfway through the week. Yes, you read that right, almost. I have training on Saturday from 09:30-14:00, which sucks, even though I’m getting paid for it. Monday night, I had a Come-To-Jesus meeting with a certain marine creature when it decided to destroy my display chain. I ended up having to rip the whole thing out by its roots, reinstall, and then go rehook the drivers. I ended up staying up late for that, which is probably what partly caused yesterday’s migraine. So since the cycle continues, I can pretty much expect one for today as well. But maybe I’ll get lucky. It’s possible, and it’s happened before. More later.

I wrote this yesterday, and attempted to post it via email, but since it didn’t post, i’m reposting. It was originally written yesterday evening.

I’m going to break all the supposed blogging rules and say sorry for not updating in so long. I’ve been busy doing the usual things, working, working and working. I’ve been trying to keep at least one book going on the reading list, but the one I’m reading now, The Secret Magdalene by Ki Longfellow, is just not keeping my interest. I’m going to finish it, because I try to finish everything I start, but it’s taking a lot of will power. I’ll probably write a fuller review later. I talked to Gina for quite a while today on the phone. I really should make it a point to keep in touch with her more. We had an enjoyable conversation. I have the messengers up most of the time during the day, so I need to make it a point to contact her at some point. I’m not ready for the weekend to end. Weekends are always way too short. Hopefully this week will be uneventful. More later.

For the last couple of days, I’ve been looking for an accessible RSS reader, other than IE. Something I could install on my system, and use as a desktop reader, that’s preferably not going to pop up yet another IE window. I have enough of those open for work, and one less would be nice. Naturally, my first stop was Google. The most accessible reader I found was Accessible RSS, which is a piece of software that seems to embody every single stereotype concerning the blind in the area of technology: Very few options, an on-board browser that goes beyond not offering any bells and whistles down to the level of not offering any features that could remotely be considered complicated. It’s like Lynx but worse. You can’t even copy URLs, (ho option in the context menu), so this means that it’s not a function/feature/bug of the screenreader in use. I never figured it would be this difficult to find an accessible desktop feedreader, and I definitely never figured that one that is billed as the most accessible would be so because it cators to my least favorite definition of accessibility, the one that says that in order for something to be accessible, it has to exclude anything but what’s absolutely necessary for use. I ended up uninstalling the reader, and the search continues. If anyone has any ideas, feel free to leave a comment.