My son is over his bout of illness from the weekend. Mikey was supposed to have his eyes checked yesterday but it had to be cancelled because they won't do a procedure under anesthesia since he had been running a fever.

My wife, of course, caught what Mikey had and was really sick yesterday. She had to go for an MRI for something else today and they screwed up the injection so now her arm is swollen and purple. She went off to the ER a little while ago and left me with the kids.

My stupid car has been giving me trouble on a regular basis (note to self: never buy a Sebring again). I was supposed to bring it in to see why the check engine light is staying lit but it snowed here so I ended up cancelling the appointment.

Tomorrow is another day.

I have usually used Eclipse for my development (when I'm not using a basic editor - UltraEdit). But I got hold of a copy of IDEA 4.0 to check it out. I actually like it a lot. The usage features are nice as are the refactorings. I have an article on my desk that tells me how to integrate IDEA with an application server for debugging but I haven't gotten around to setting it up yet.

There is one thing that absolutely drives me crazy. Every Windows application in the world uses Ctrl+Y for redo. But IDEA uses Ctrl+Y to delete the current line. I can't tell you how many times I have hit Ctrl+Y a bunch of times thinking I was undoing something and then look up to see my code mangled. Arghhh! Why can't we just follow the standard?