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The problem of non-ideal working positions seems to be quite widely spread. After a complete series about this problem by Bill Clementson, who worked out a rather expensive solution, John Philpott wrote in " and a small aubergine…: Surviving Emacs ala Philpott": However, I can't afford that laptop stand or keyboard right now. I have however constructed a laptop stand from 2 books…. This is indeed nice, as I use a hole puncher (SAX 508 to be precise) for this job. Together with the MS 4000 Keyboard and enough rests about all half an hour this should be sufficient for my needs quite while, especially as seat and desk are already appropriate.

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After some time of general lurking state I try to get into actually doing something useful. What this exactly means may be in the eye of the beholder, but this blog will be the starting point for myself to document some ideas, and much frustration, in my life as "some guy sitting in front of the computer all the time".

After giving up on some unsuccessful tries on the local universities and increasing interest in programming (mainly due to Common Lisp) I will have some more time to spend in front of Emacs and SLIME, and to reorganize my future plans a bit. This is also the purpose of this blog: talking about my grand mistakes in primitive examples (as anybody has to work through when just learning the craft of programming as a first step), and discussing ideas of whatever the society must change because I will do everything to make anyone a better human.

This was inspired because of those previously mentioned "unsuccessful tries". After concentrating more on work I somehow got to see that I am paid for C++ programming since two years, but have not yet started to look into Boost. Since I started from ground zero of programming expertize, it's not surprising that most of my historic code just wishes to get eliminated. This is another reason for my current lack of confidence in nearly all my activities, and that should definitly change finally.

Common Lisp founded my intereset in metaprogramming, and further in programming at general, what brought me also to look at C++ more too. After lurking dozens of "my language is the best" threads on c.l.l. it was quite reassuring that there are other people who have a sound opinion on such phallusmetric relations.

Already some time ago I wanted to start with CL via writing an assistant for learning traditional chinese script; I got so far as to install a lisp, emacs/slime, post on usenet — and quit. This may change now, I hope. This is more or less a teaser project, to see if I can at least do those so called "daily tasks", using some vendor library, writing some parser, doing some minimalistic GUI. After that, other projects should follow.

As should other posts.