Gonna get my blinkie boards on time!

Just got a ship notification from PCBCart! I was worried because Chinese Spring Festival starts next week and runs for 8 days, so if they didn't get it out today I might not have blinkies at Capricon. Now we'll see how long it takes DHL to get 200 boards from China to Chelsea.

Oh, thank FSM

This article tells how to disable auto-sort in Windows 7.

I was also relieved to find that, when I googled for it, I found lots of people just as fed up with auto-sort as I am, for the same reasons.

The other thing I discovered today was how to get the icon size down farther. I already had them turned down to "small", but apparently Microsoft thinks I'm blind, "small" is still huge. But it turns out you can click on the desktop, hold down Ctrl, then use the scroll wheel to change icon size. It's now to a reasonable scale.

I've pretty much got Windows 7 looking like an actual operating system instead of a toy now, though it took a while.

New office suite

OpenOffice has been forked to LibreOffice to escape Oracle's bungling hands. I'm switching, pulling the torrent right now.