At work, I've decided to switch back to Vim again and this time give it a try using the traditional stuff... hjkl and all that. I've been spending time fooling around with pyglet and wishing I had done KillJoe2 in that.

Anyway, I got home and was doing some HTML stuff in jEdit. I was changing form field names and I was just thinking, "Man, I could do this so much quicker in vim."

!!

I, who used to be so disappointed in vim, am now getting used to it. In fact, I just tried using hjkl to move around while typing this. :P

Pat pointed out to me that my atom feed is not picked up by Google Reader. It turns out that the feed wasn't a valid atom feed.

I fixed it with the help of FeedValidator.org, but it still is not coming up in Reader even though it works in Opera and Firefox. Anyone have any ideas as to why?

I had to do it... as much as I didn't want to. It's kind of neet though.

I did a common knowledge/logic captcha instead of the annoying distorted alpha-numeric sequences. This should definitely cut down on spam. Sorry for all three of you that have commented before. I hope you aren't too bothered by answering a simple question.

I had such a crazy dream last night that I had to detail it.

Check it out

It seems to be inevitable that when I start working for someone and they realize that I have an above average knowledge of computers, I immediately become the default person to fix their problems with their network, printers, email, servers and anything else in between.

Here's the truth: I don't know shit about IT.

I know enough to get by. I can set up a small network, build or repair systems, and do other simple tasks. But if someone wants roaming profiles, special firewall rules, local domain controllers, file servers, print servers, phone systems...hire an IT company. I don't know how to do any of that crap and I don't care to learn.

Of course, my warnings to the effect that "I don't know what I'm doing" go unheeded and I get blamed for it. Here's an example.

I set up a small network at my current job recently. For some stupid reason, we had to go all wireless at our new office. The original setup was using an iMac with Internet Sharing which didn't work with my PC. I suggested getting a wireless router and doing it properly, which I set up with encryption and changed the default LAN subnet.

Three weeks later, it started having problems. As soon as we lost internet access, my boss pointed the finger at me. I recommended the router, so it's obviously my fault. Actually it was our ISPs fault, but no one bothered to research it besides me. I got no apology.

It's also not my specialty to explain how to set up E-mail to customers. They make books "For Dummies." I sure as hell do not write them, so please don't ask me.

Kind of along the same lines, some things don't have short answers. For example, someone tells me that they double their system speed with 2 processors (or 2 cores in recent times). It doesn't happen as much anymore, but once in a while, I have to correct a person. Not because I'm a know it all jerk who has to prove other people wrong, but because there's a lot of misinformation in the computer industry and I want people to be informed.

At one point I started answering the eventual "Why" with "Are you sure you want me to get in to it?" No matter what they answer, I usually end up getting treated like a know it all jerk. If you don't care and don't want to learn something, why would you keep asking?

So, to sum it all up, I am a programmer. Please try and understand that I just don't give a crap about IT or customer service.