New Desk Setup

Recently I had read a lot about how bad it is for you to sit all day and connected that with the amount of sitting I do for work and personal projects.  I saw a couple of people that I follow on Twitter were trying stand up desks and decided to give it a try.  There are supposed to be many benefits of a standing desk once you get used to it. The biggest obstacle that I faced was how I was going to modify my desk to give me the correct ergonomics for standing.  After a little looking around the office and house I came up with a solution and I have included a picture of that below.

I have only used the new setup for one full day now but I am optimistic that it is going to make a difference for me.  It is taking a little getting used to but so far I like it.  I do need to take a break every now and then and want to find a good high stool that I can pull up to work at the desk when I need a break from standing.  So far so good.

Back to Drupal Again

I had converted my blog back to Wordpress a couple of months ago and I liked how it looked and was easy to access using mobile tools.  The problem with it was that I could not do some things that I wanted to do with Wordpress that were trivial when using Drupal.  You take things like CCK and Views for granted when you don't have them.  For instance, I keep a list on my site of the names of people that I walk in support or in memory of when I walk in the Komen 3-Day.  I could not find an easy way to keep that list in Wordpress but it was very simple in Drupal.  Define a custom content type to store the names of the person and how I now them.  Then setup a view to only show the names.  5 mimute effort with Drupal but really not easily done unless you use a commercial Wordpress module.  So back to Drupal it is.  I have pretty much finished up making the changes that I wanted to my blog and I have something that will work for now.