Office Ergonomics
Posted on February 2, 2008
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We have a subject called safety engineering. In this subject we talk about different kinds of safety practices in the work place. The easiest to identify is the real dangerous ones, like wearing hard hats in certain areas, or keeping your limbs far from moving machines.
One favorite topic of our teacher is ergonomics. She seems to be fixated on this. This is probably because most of the work now occurs in an office, sitting in a chair, looking at a computer screen, typing on a keyboard placed on a table. There are only a few instances where hard, manual labor is being done. So our teacher decided to focus on office ergonomics. This branch of safety engineering is focused mostly on the comfort and ease of doing a job and not only on the actual safeness of an object.
Things like repetitive strain injury from typing on a keyboard, or back strain from a poorly designed chair, and others like this. It’s more on the small aches and eventual permanent discomforts of office work that ergonomics focuses on.
Surveys and Polls
Posted on January 30, 2008
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Surveys and polls are helpful tools in getting the demographics of your audience for a certain topic. It also helps us web developers evaluate the desires or the demands of our visitors. It’s a good tool in determining what type of users our web site has. It also gives us an overview of our market, for the case of e-commerce websites.
WEP for my Friend
Posted on January 28, 2008
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My friend recently got his laptop (a newer, better laptop than mine… T_T), and since his dad and older sister also have laptops and they have two desktop PC’s (three if they didn’t donate the other one, but they thought they already had too much. [You think?!]), his dad decided to buy a wireless router, for at least the networking if not for the net connection sharing.
So, my friend set it up and it work like a charm and all that. Anyway, he remembered that his cousin used to “steal” net connection from thier neighbor by using his mac out in the porch. My friend then realize that he should probably setup a password of some sort, though he doubts that his neighbors are not that smart enough, but then again, who knows.
So, in comes, well, me. He asked me to help him set the, what he calls, “selfish thingy that some coffee shops do”. Anyway, I asked him if he prefered WEP or WPA and I swear, I think I saw something red ooze out of his nose. I decided for him and used WPA. No reason for choosing that rather than WEP, it’s just that it was the first option in the list. I also mentioned to him that this WEP thing works like the American Home Shield, it protects you from those connection thieves. He now has the, ahem, “selfish thingy that some coffee shops do” in his own home and I managed to set up all their PC’s fine.
WiFi in Offices
Posted on January 28, 2008
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My friend was recently hired for an office job. Since he is more on customer service, he has to use a computer to make his job faster; you know, with the searching for records and service applications and stuff. Even though he was given a PC with an LCD screen, he says it’s still bothersome to use the keyboard and mouse since they still have wires.
It’s the kind of workstation where the CPU is hidden and the wires for the I/O peripherals are just passed through a small hole. He says this makes the moving of the mouse a bit hard since the wires get tangled in the hole. He says this is understandable since wireless keyboards and mice are expensive. He complains more on the network and power cables located near his feet and legs.
Choices of Coffee Shops in Davao
Posted on January 25, 2008
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A lot of people, whether tourists or locals, are wondering which Coffee Shop offers the best service in town. The idea of listing my choice of coffee shops hit me. I’m not the type of person who orders the same type of coffee every time I hang out in a coffee shop. Most of the time, I make it a point to visit and try every coffee shop in the city. Of course, it’s part of my niche to collect data of the wifi hotspots of these shops.