If you spend a lot of time looking at your computer – and if you read this blog I’m betting you do – you might notice that after a while your eyes start to hurt, and that you have trouble going to sleep at night. There’s a good reason for this:

"I spend a lot of time working in front of a screen (many hours in a dimly lit room) and eye fatigue is an issue. A consistent color scheme, especially one which is easy on the eyes, is important — and it also helps to have way of doing that where the directives are not all scattered all over my Emacs-lisp setup. Enter Emacs Color Themes, available as the Debian package emacs-goodies.

This is what I was looking for, an E-reader with a E-ink screen so it's easy on the eyes, but also a full color 3.5” touchscreen LCD screen ideal for web browsing. The 6” EPD screen displays like a printed page and text is adjustable for easy extended reading. What's even more interesting, the device is 3G enabled, making it possible to download content on the go.

Are there times of the night that you find yourself adjusting your screen brightness lower, either to help your eyes or not bother someone else? It can be annoying have to tweak brightness settings all of the time. We'll show you how to set your brightness automatically during the night.

In my ongoing quest to take over the world with Linux as my OS of choice, I've noticed that simply handing someone an install CD doesn't really do the trick. I've also noticed that formatting their Windows 95 install with a fresh version of Linux tends to make angry faces as well. The more tech savvy the user is, the more resistant to change they tend to be.

"I'm working on designing a microformat that can be used to indicate the location of VCS (git, svn, etc) repositories related to a web page. I'd appreciate some web standards-savvy eyes on my rel-vcs microformat rfc..."

A question from John.P in Texas: “…About the poll called “Are you considering a switch from Windows to Linux?” I see that almost 47% of visitors say “Yes” (so did I). I am an XP user and was wondering if you can post a short note for advice about switching to Linux?…“spacer_gif Switching From XP to Linux - Should You?

If you want to change the background color of your screen follow any one of the options:

"...The most obvious example is to compare the modern convention of multi-document tab-switching to the buffer-switching mechanisms you see in Emacs. Once you start opening a significant number of tabs, the number of documents you can open and see at the same time is limited by the width of your screen. For Firefox on this machine, the number is twelve[1] when it's running full-screen.