3 years continuosly I sit in front of computer almost 14 hours a day. I wonder what is the risk of it, though I’ve heard a lot from people. I personally did not do much research onto this health and computer. For me, computer is just a tool like a spana, that’s all. Until recent days that I think my health getting down hill, I checked into all source to get information about it.

Associate content and The Daily Mind give a lot of information about health and computer that somehow suit my need. It’s all about working environment and how it works. I heard a lot about carpal tunnel syndrome, previously I was about to have it, especially when I rush for my job in the midnight, and have not enough sleep the next day. My left arm almost can’t move. That’s scary, so I take everything slow now. Here are a few personal tips from experience.

Look at green field

Green color does not reflect sunlight as much as any other color. It helps prevent our eyes’ lid muscle to scratch, means the eyes doesn’t go tired at time.

Walk around every hour

Some say every 20 minutes. But I prefer an hour, as I need to smoke every few hours (bad habit, do not follow). Anyway, while walk away from the computer, you can always scratch your hand to prevent carpal tunnel syndrome.

Take time table into account

A lot of people who play computer games or working with computer, they forgot to eat! It happen to me so often. Though it might be effective compare to Apidexin diet pill, but it is not as healthy as Apidexin. Need to make sure breakfast, lunch and dinner are on time everyday. I got gastric because of the unhealthy schedule of eating habit.

Drinks more water, less coffee

Coffee is not good, doesn’t matter how well the advertisement planned, they lie! Drink water, plain water would be the best. It help circulating the whole body system and hey, you might need a toilet break every one hour to scratch your hand and body at the same time

I am not sure about the placement of LCD though. I placed it like 1 meter away from my eye sight. Bigger screen does help! Nowadays, many people are in online income group. This is particular important for those who work online. Freelancer, bloggers, web magazine editor and etc.

I changed the overall look again. It was like a few weeks ago I changed to the default kubrick WordPress theme as a point of return Actually I changed all my blog into the default WordPress theme, cause I am sickening by WordPress design and coding

Anyway, I changed all my blog theme into this theme as well, I named it as my_default_theme. I am going to use this theme in all my blog (if any comes out later day). Well, don’t under estimate this theme because:

XHTML/CSS Strict

Everything hand coded, structured according to 950 grid system. Standard, I would say, because from the structure to the typeface has standardised according to the common standard online Well, I added some CSS3 radius border code, so it gets nasty

Clean and neat

Don’t you like to have some breath while reading blogs? I bet those who online read lots of blog as well. Black background white typeface is the worst and I would never even click into it, it hurt my eyes. Now here is one clean shit eh?

Contrast designed

Black, grey, white and blue is all the colours here. Don’t need any extra, separate them easily with eyes. Works perfectly (to the disable) without CSS as well. Big and small typeface contrast as well, so now you can quickly get how to read from top to toe

P/S: Shit! This blog has turned into web developement blog!!! Need to stop writing about web and start back my gadget

I’ve finally put down my investment on a LCD monitor

The best thing was, it’s only RM399 which for me, this is the most budget (cheapest) LCD monitor ever. Acer laptop and an Acer LCD, good combination, I hope. The overall of this workstation has costed me more or less RM3000. First, the laptop, with RAM upgraded, costed me RM2400 which is also the first laptop I bought myself last year. Then here goes this LCD monitor RM399, keyboard and mouse has been changing a few times Next target? A netbook!!!! Gonna collect a whole set of “sexy lingerie” for my room

Gonna stop being too geek. It’s been few years I’m such a geek and my girlfriend has been seriously influenced by me and started to get geeky Gonna have a geek family~! Anyway, before ending this post, I have to stress this, I’m quite a broke guy now. Next month onward will all plan on saving and more saving. Well, just opened a special saving account with a bank program, then spendn almost all the money I have in my bank for all my gadget

Yes, I’m getting back Vista due to the capabilities of my laptop with Ubuntu Linux. Really, I LOVE Ubuntu and would like to use it for full time, but then, my laptop has to go without it. Well, of course there’s another plan to go. Which is… Desktop! Correct! I’m getting a desktop soon, since PC Fair is on coming weekend, I’ll be there and choose a low-end machine. And this time, this machine gonna be according to Ubuntu list

The thing about Ubuntu were…

1, Mouse as slow as Mac OS.
Probably because they have the same core based (UNIX), that’s why. But it’s easy to get use to it though, remember, I’m a Mac user for the pass 2 years

2, System is stable, software is not
Though I have to admit, the system itself is stable, very stable. Much better than Mac if you insist an answer. Doesn’t matter how FireFox crash on me, the system don’t blink at all. Mac do, Windows = Death Blue Screen/Blink (Refresh explorer.exe). Software that is giving me the biggest headache is Mozilla FireFox. Until today I’m still having problem with FireFox doesn’t matter which OS I’m with. Lagging on loading, stop process when the page load was error. Maybe I should take a walk in Mozilla forum instead. Now I have to bear with Google Chrome at the moment, which has a better interface and better performance of course

3, Better person with Linux
Well, as far as I know, I didn’t install any pirated software in my Ubuntu. This is good, at least it shows how a person changed from pirated user to non-pirate user

Anyway, let’s just see if my freelance works well this month. If it do, I might able to get another LCD monitor for my laptop too

I’m still fancy about minimalist design, and always do. It’s been years I’m looking for a theme that is so simple yet so easy on eyes. Can’t find one? No problem, look for SimplyWP for custom made theme that suit your very own taste. However, I’ve agreed to make it free theme online too. Back to topic.

Since I moved my host again, so I don’t mind about the old blue theme anymore. Instead, I take a lift on my blog to make it more comfortable for myself. Firstly, because I’m gonna stick with this blog for sometimes before I open another blog. (There goes another crazy idea on blog ). Secondly, I think this blog had served me well. I’ve been looking into this blog for some tips on Windows XP and forgotten applications for Mac, both works well in this blog, so why not continue it. I believe sooner or later, there will be people finding this site as useful as I am.

As I stated on the previous entry about the changes might come and earth day. I will be shutting down my laptop and get a total darkness in my room for an hour. This would be a good time for me to meditate a little bit about my next big step in my life. Has been surround with some trouble and some dilemma for some times and it’s April soon. Time moved so fast that I need to get anti wrinkle eye cream soon. 25 years old birthday is coming near, and soon, I’ll have some commitment to made

Have a great weekend!