As you can see from the worn spots, I’ve been using it for many years. About six, I think. The bottom label simply says “Optical Mouse”.

Today Lifehacker had an article on the best mice according to the readers. Of course most of them were Logitech mice. And as you would expect, there were mice like the G5 and the fancy MX Revolution.

Now maybe other people use mice differently, but when I use mine, especially when I play games, I pick it up a lot. Take the MX Revolution:

I’ve never used this specific mouse, but I’ve never been able to lift these off the desk as easily as with regular $10 mice. And although it appears to be ergonomically designed, these types of mice seem to be presumptuous about how you like to hold it. Here are some more photos to help explain:

How I hold my mouse:

As you can see, I hold it with my fingertips. Maybe others hold it this way too, but I find that I have much more control this way. Not only can I pick it up easily, but side-to-side movement is easier too.

How mice like the MX Revolution seems to presume that you like to hold your mouse:

Kind of with your entire hand.

Another issue I have is with wireless mice. I really like the idea of not having a cord to interfere with the movement of the mouse, but look at where they put the sensor:

It’s way on the side! I guess maybe I use my mouse strangely because whenever I use a cordless mouse, the cursor goes in all sorts of crazy directions and makes me want to toss it across the room which I can do because it’s cordless.

I dunno, maybe it’s just me.

I’d like some comments on this though…

Note: If you saw this post unfinished it’s because I couldn’t figure out any other way to get it from the web interface to Live Writer than by posting it and editing it from Writer.

Apparently this router has some sort of problem with forwarding UDP that makes it lose all connections periodically. Different people lose the connections at different intervals, but for me it was about every 5 minutes. It also looks like this problem has been around for a long time.

Edit: It’s a v4, that seems to have a lot to do with it.

I’ve also discovered that it decides to stop working completely at 11:30PM every night. Um…yeah….

Yes, they’re new, but you don’t need to dumb things down. XNA has already been simplified. That is, in fact, what XNA is all about. Because XNA has already made it easier, I think we need to concentrate on making the newbies good programmers instead of making it even easier for them to program. I can understand making the most basic “putting a sprite on the screen” tutorials as simple as possible to just get them started, but in order for them to really take off and get to the point where they no longer rely on tutorials, they HAVE to learn OOP.

Articles need to have OOP. This is even more confusing to me. Even the more advanced articles contain little OOP. Is this just how people program? Maybe it’s just me. When I program, I am obsessed with making everything as OO as possible.

Maybe I’m totally wrong. Maybe I’m just looking at the wrong tutorials. If I am, tell me.

The problem I have with the Natural Selection 2 podcast is the background music. I’m not trying to get my groove on, I’m just trying to listen to them talk, I don’t need them to set the mood. It makes it hard to hear what they’re saying on top of it. If I need background music I have my own music player.

This is just something that has annoyed me about GMod movies.