In an attempt at a slightly less lame post this week, I’ll recount how I got a wireless USB adapter to work under Ubuntu. You might find yourself in situation in which a wireless USB adapter makes more sense that installing a normal wireless card, in which case, these instructions might be useful.

Well, for the past few months, I have been busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest, and I have had to prioritize my paid work as well as writing that actually furthers my career over luxuries like sleep, exercise and posting substantive content to the blog. As a result, my posts lately have been fluffier than usual.

I do intend to get back to writing posts that are a little geekier, hopefully sooner rather than later, but it doesn’t look like its going to happen this week. Instead, I decided to add a new feature to the blog…

This week, I am exploring mouseless computing approaches, focusing primarily on the Ion window manager, but also trying other tools like the Hit-a-Hint Firefox extension, Cream and XBindKeys. I am doing this as much for the sake of computing resource efficiency as programming efficiency and usability, and I’m having a lot of fun along the way.