13 Jan 2012

Sleep statistics for 12 - 13 Jan (Thu)

Went to bed / woke up: 1:51 / 9:12
Total time: 7h 20m

Analysis made by the Sleep Cycle iPhone app.

My sleep graph for the entire night:

Sleepgraph
12 Jan 2012

Sleep statistics for 11 - 12 Jan (Wed)

Went to bed / woke up: 0:21 / 7:50
Total time: 7h 28m

Analysis made by the Sleep Cycle iPhone app.

My sleep graph for the entire night:

Sleepgraph
11 Jan 2012

Sleep statistics for 10 - 11 Jan (Tue)

Went to bed / woke up: 0:39 / 7:57
Total time: 7h 17m

Analysis made by the Sleep Cycle iPhone app.

My sleep graph for the entire night:

Sleepgraph
10 Jan 2012

Sleep statistics for 09 - 10 Jan (Mon)

Went to bed / woke up: 1:43 / 8:30
Total time: 6h 46m

Analysis made by the Sleep Cycle iPhone app.

My sleep graph for the entire night:

Sleepgraph
9 Jan 2012

Sleep statistics for 08 - 09 Jan (Sun)

Went to bed / woke up: 23:47 / 7:27
Total time: 7h 39m

Analysis made by the Sleep Cycle iPhone app.

My sleep graph for the entire night:

Sleepgraph
8 Jan 2012

Sleep statistics for 07 - 08 Jan (Sat)

Went to bed / woke up: 1:10 / 8:20
Total time: 7h 09m

Analysis made by the Sleep Cycle iPhone app.

My sleep graph for the entire night:

Sleepgraph
7 Jan 2012

Sleep statistics for 06 - 07 Jan (Fri)

Went to bed / woke up: 1:09 / 8:42
Total time: 7h 32m

Analysis made by the Sleep Cycle iPhone app.

My sleep graph for the entire night:

Sleepgraph
11 Dec 2011

Years of Battle with Eye Twitching

I have a confession to make. As early as 2003, the twitching eyes have come and go. The twitches occur once every couple of weeks to months, and lasted from few days to around 3 weeks. Whenever the left eye twitches, I experienced an unexpected negative news or event that usually happen few days after the eye stops twitching. In contrast, when the right eye twitches, a good and positive event usually develop few days after the eye stops twitching. Due to continuous similar observation, I began to develop some form of superstitious.

Having done some studies, eye twitching maybe caused by stress, tiredness, eye strain, etc. I wasn't stressed when it happened. I wasn't tired, and I didn't sit in front of the monitor for too long when it happened. I sure as hell don't drink coffee. I don't drink alcohol. I don't have allergies. Then what's causing this?

My left eye twitches today after many months of absence. I figured that I should abandoned the superstitious theory and started experimenting. I traced what I had been doing lately to get rid of eye twitching. Exercise! But I have been doing that a lot. What else have I been missing? Perhaps nutrition? Yes! I have not been eating fruits for a while. As soon as I spent an hour at the gym, I dropped by Jamba Juice for size sixteen five-fruit frenzy. I have been feeling good since then and the twitching, which triggered at least once every hour or so, no longer happen.

4 Dec 2011

Physical well-being

Sleep
I'm a big believer in sleep. I need to get at least 7-8 hours of sleep. Any less will affect my mood and productivity. So, how do I feel at work if I get only 5 hours of sleep? One word: Crap. I don't feel like doing actual work. Absorbing information will be 10 times harder.

Exercise
These days, combined with daily 30 minutes exercise on treadmill and swimming during the weekends, I'm starting to feel better. The one thing I'm struggling to take control over with is diet. Sometimes I imagine that I can be healthier if I'm a vegan. But that's a little too much to ask.

Working Environment
At work, I have one area in my cubicle where I stacked up boxes and placed the monitor, keyboard, mouse, laptop so that I can actually stand while working. I don't think that it's a good idea to stand for long when working on something that requires a lot of thinking and brain power. So, I have another area in the cube with Macbook Air, where I can sit down to write code and brainstorm ideas.

While I believe that I'm physically fine, I'm starting to feel mentally burn out. But that's another story for another day to write about.
26 Nov 2011

Synergy SHIFT-key not working between Mac and Windows

Synergy made it convenient to use a keyboard and a mouse across multiple machines. My setup involved using Mac OS X Lion as the server, and Windows 7 (64-bit) as the client. One of the most annoying and noticeable bugs of Synergy involved the inability to use SHIFT key on the client machines. Current version of Synergy as of this writing is v1.3.8 stable and v1.4.5 beta. Both these versions exhibit this symptom.

The temporary solution is to downgrade the server's Synergy to v1.3.4 Mac OS X Intel 32-bit and the client to v1.3.4 Windows 32-bit. On Mac, I also used QSynergy as the front-end UI and set it to automatically start after login.