RSI - a good reminder [www.onlamp.com]

This onlamp.com article is a good reminder to take RSI seriously, and links to some really good looking ope source software enforcing micro-breaks etc.

For Windows and Linux there is the excellent Workrave: http://www.workrave.org/

For Mac OS X, AntiRSI (http://ozy.student.utwente.nl/projects/antirsi/) is very nice looking and well integrated with OS X. It has the basics, but it's not as advanced as Workrave.

A friend of mine once got extremely bad RSI (from her violin playing of all things) and required a hired note-taker to go to class with her for over a year. I think it's worth taking some precautions to avoid a similar fate. After all, if I can't type I'm not earning any money...