>Ok, looks like my mouse is the culprit. It starts scrolling on its own.... sheesh. I go through mice so quickly!

I'm back at my old desk, and just like the desks in between, the pattern on the faux wood drives my mice insane. The cursor will start drifting, at the rate of about minus 4-5 px/s (on both axes), and will eventually go home ("(0,0) sweet (0,0)). It's not OS dependent, happened since NT4. Haven't tried with Ubuntu, simply because I don't think this is a software problem - or at least not at any level where I can help it. Mouse pad solves it, but since it would interfere with my coffee space (back to the same old - ashtray, paper and pencil to the left, mouse and coffee to the right of the keyboard), I'd rather be amused with cursor dance every couple of days.

But yesterday I had a funny case when the mouse behaved very quirky. The arrow would not follow my hand movements, or it would but would make random jumps a few pixels to either side. Quite unpredictable, and sort of funny, though it caused me to jumble a couple of lines of code. Nothing that ctrl+z and some keyboarding with the clipboard (or vice versa boarding) couldn't fix.

A simple look at the underside of the mouse discovered the cause: there was a hair, right over the red eye :).