Anthony’s Ramblings

It’s been a while since I’ve last posted here. I’m not sure if much has really happened since July. Well, now that I think about it, a few things have.

First off, I’ve moved to San Jose and have been working for the Menlo Park City School District for almost 3 months now. The change has been mostly good. I really like my new job and do like living in the South Bay over the East Bay. More pay is also good.

Speaking of work, we’ve just completed the project of linking all our sites via fiber. This is VERY cool, as our sites were previously linked via T1 lines (can we say, slow?!). I’m a geek, so I have my iMac patched into the gigabit switch at my site, so I have gigabit access across the entire network. Now that this project has been completed, a very generous man on the Palo Alto Exchange board has given us permission to connect to them for Internet access. For those who don’t know, the Palo Alto Exchange (otherwise known as PAIX, or Palo Alto Internet Exchange) is a huge ISP exchange hub. This means mega bandwidth for us! We currently have a T1 out to the “cloud”, so Internet access at peak hours (typically around lunch) sucks majorly.

Other than that, my beloved PowerBook has developed a weird problem. The “F” key on the keyboard has become extremely sensitive. Barely putting any pressure on the key results in a keypress (the key doesn’t even have to move downward). This is annoying for two reasons: one, I end up getting multiple “F’s” (usually 2, but sometimes more) when I only want one, and two, “F” is on the home row, and that is where my fingers rest when I am not typing (but still have my hands on the keyboard ready to key in something). Rogue “F’s” will appear when I am using the terminal, word processor, browsing the web, or using any application that accepts text input. I haven’t attempted to take apart the key yet. It’s the only key that does this. If anybody has any ideas on what’s up, I’m open to any input!

I think this is about it. Oh, I changed the theme here. I’m feeling very minimalistic today. You like?

Update : I pried off the ‘F’ key and cleaned under it. It’s better, but still a little touchy on the lower quarter of the key. It seems that the way I type naturally doesn’t trigger the weird repeatedness, so I think I’m okay for now!