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slug: I_Can_t_Dance
title: I Can't Dance
---

##### Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:00:42 +0100

My legs hurt.

It hurts to sit. It hurts to stand. It hurts to walk. $DEITY knows what it
will feel like to ride my bike.

How did I do this? It wasn't some bizarre biking accident. I was laying cables
under the floor between the two offices at the opposite corners of my building
yesterday. I lifted three floorboards and four carpets and drilled one hole.
Afterwards, I rebuilt some shelves. How did that hurt my legs???

[Today is Blogger Appreciation Day
[UNOFFICIAL]](http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/04/14/today-is-blogger-
appreciation-day-unofficial/) so I'd like to thank
[Steve](http://www.steve.org.uk/) for Chronicle which is now powering this
blog instead of [the old homebrew](http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/).

Meanwhile, messages that came in while I was AFK included a strange one from
Paul, [Steve being elected as Debian Project
Leader](http://www.debian.org/vote/2008/vote_001#outcome) (well done!), ['Free
Software in Ethics and Practice' - Richard Stallman, Thursday 1st
May,](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/fsuk-manchester/2008-04/msg00011.html)
[Interview: How a hacker became a freedom
fighter](http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19826511.900-interview-
how-a-hacker-became-a-freedom-fighter.html) From New Scientist Print Edition,
[Understanding Design & Computers: Notes from an Introduction to OpenMoko,
by Ole Tange for UKUUG](http://understandinglimited.com/2008/04/13/ole-on-
openmoko/)

Finally, in a [cycling](http://cyclingfans.net/satellite/) and cooperatives
cross-over, [this article on Hammond's
crash](http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/Hammond_Crashes_in_ParisRoubaix_article_227492.html)
also mentions the other two Brits, who ride for cooperative teams. I watched
[the race](http://cyclingfans.net/satellite/2008/paris-roubaix), but didn't
see much of them.

Tags: [cooperatives](tags/cooperatives), [cycling](tags/cycling),
[debian](tags/debian), [life](tags/life), [phones](tags/phones),
[software](tags/software).

### Comments On This Entry

> ##### Submitted at 18:30 on 14 Apr by MJ Ray

>

> There's [discussion of the OpenMoko talk on the fsfe-uk
list.](http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5465)

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