I want to start today’s post by sending warm, fuzzy thoughts of hope for recovery to Japan.\u00a0 The entire country is in serious trouble.\u00a0 The ground, as far as I know, has stopped shaking, but the death toll has not stopped rising and the aftermath continues to worsen.\u00a0 The death toll estimates vary widely, from a little over five thousand to around twenty-five thousand.\u00a0 From the quick Google search I did on the number, the first figure is probably more official with the larger number being an estimate which may yet become reality.<\/p>\n
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Most frightening of all, of course, is the situation with the nuclear reactor which is leading to heroic efforts to get it cooled off.\u00a0 Helicopters are flying over and dropping tons of seawater on it.\u00a0 In a worst case scenario, the country’s water supply could become polluted with radiation.\u00a0 One only has to think back to Chernobyl to see the potential magnitude.\u00a0 There is now a large area around that Russian facility which is no longer livable.\u00a0 Japan doesn’t have<\/em> a whole lot of territory to lose this way, so the long term effects could be catastrophic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My contributions to charity had been few and far between.\u00a0 I have never had a lot of money to throw around.\u00a0 That is still true today, but yesterday I gave a little money to the Red Cross specifically for the Japanese crisis.\u00a0 I have long had an appreciation for Japanese culture, and hope someday I can manage to take a trip there.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meanwhile, on a more personal level, I am slowly adapting to my long hours of overtime.\u00a0 I have been fairly tired for over a week now, since I started putting in the long hours, but that exhaustion is slowly diminishing.\u00a0 It won’t go away, but I have high hopes I will manage to get back to some semblance of my life prior to starting the big OT.\u00a0 For example, I have played very little EverQuest in the last week, but hope to slowly return to heavier play.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Last week, I made a purchase in error.\u00a0 I got an HDMI-to-DVI adapter cord.\u00a0 My video cards each have four ports on them, but I was only thinking of the two DVI ports and the one HDMI port.\u00a0 I wanted to hook up a monitor to the HDMI port in hopes of having three monitors connected to one card.\u00a0 However, the HDMI port is a substitute<\/em> for one of the DVI ports, not an addition to them.\u00a0 The fourth port, a DisplayPort port, is for a third monitor.\u00a0 I purchased an adapter for this long ago but it didn’t work.\u00a0 There are two kinds of DisplayPort adapters, and I got the wrong one.\u00a0 I knew it probably wouldn’t work, but I tried it anyway.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With all of this in mind, I ordered what’s called an Active<\/em> DisplayPort adapter.\u00a0 This, thankfully, was exactly what I needed.\u00a0 I now have my bottom three monitors connected to one video card.\u00a0 Because that one card is an ATI Radeon, this meant I could “group” the monitors.\u00a0 In short, I could make them act as one single, triple-wide monitor.\u00a0 I did this, stretching my desktop across them.\u00a0 I then opened EQ just for giggles and logged into Boomer.\u00a0 It was quite the experience!\u00a0 The images on the side monitors were stretched, tilting an odd angle.\u00a0 This gave the whole image a greater illusion of three dimensions, especially when I moved around.\u00a0 The side monitors were primarily in my peripheral vision, so movement on them enhanced the illusion of depth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I ungrouped the monitors when I was satisfied with this little experiment.\u00a0 The odd angling of the stuff on the sides would, I knew, eventually annoy me.\u00a0 I’ll probably raid with the monitors joined like that tomorrow night just to have the experience, at least for as long as I can stand it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n That’s all I have for this week.\u00a0 I am going to Stumble a little, take a nap, and then head into work for more of that tasty OT.\u00a0 See you tomorrow with a tired little poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I want to start today’s post by sending warm, fuzzy thoughts of hope for recovery to Japan.\u00a0 The entire country is in serious trouble.\u00a0 The ground, as far as I know, has stopped shaking, but the death toll has not stopped rising and the aftermath continues to worsen.\u00a0 The death toll estimates vary widely, from 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