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Of Mice and Men, and Crepes of wrath
Mar. 1st, 2006 01:17 pmMy mouse was acting weird. Weird in a way that made it very hard to track down, because it wasn't immediately obvious that it was the mouse.
When I used Firefox or Thunderbird, the cursor kept moving tot he right. It kept doing this until I killed point32.exe. Now, Point32 is the intellimouse mouse remapper which converts the presses from the mouse into the commands that we want. After several attempts at isstalling, reinstalling, upgrading and downgrading the software, I found out it was a hardware problem. Turns out that one of the rocker switches has jammed on. I'd forgotten I even had a rocker. A control that has the sole purpose of scrolling the screen slowly sideways has always struck me as a little pointless considering most of the time I don't even have a horizontal scrollbar. So, turning off the horizontal scroll seems to work. Wheel seems to have become a litte erratic though. I think this is a direct result of it being just over a year old... The warranty detection circuit must have triggered.
Still. It works, more or less.
Delighted with my success I decided to make pancakes. It was pancake day. Seemed logical. I also made a mess of my shirt. One of the pancakes was slightly undercooked when I tossed it. Very nice they were too. 4 pancakes. Wish I'd had some apple, but I didn't, so I made 2 with chocolate and glace cherries (actually the chocolate was designed for hot chocolate, but it worked well), 2 with butterscotch sauce. Sugar and lemon? Pah!
When I used Firefox or Thunderbird, the cursor kept moving tot he right. It kept doing this until I killed point32.exe. Now, Point32 is the intellimouse mouse remapper which converts the presses from the mouse into the commands that we want. After several attempts at isstalling, reinstalling, upgrading and downgrading the software, I found out it was a hardware problem. Turns out that one of the rocker switches has jammed on. I'd forgotten I even had a rocker. A control that has the sole purpose of scrolling the screen slowly sideways has always struck me as a little pointless considering most of the time I don't even have a horizontal scrollbar. So, turning off the horizontal scroll seems to work. Wheel seems to have become a litte erratic though. I think this is a direct result of it being just over a year old... The warranty detection circuit must have triggered.
Still. It works, more or less.
Delighted with my success I decided to make pancakes. It was pancake day. Seemed logical. I also made a mess of my shirt. One of the pancakes was slightly undercooked when I tossed it. Very nice they were too. 4 pancakes. Wish I'd had some apple, but I didn't, so I made 2 with chocolate and glace cherries (actually the chocolate was designed for hot chocolate, but it worked well), 2 with butterscotch sauce. Sugar and lemon? Pah!
