The Key(board) to Reorganization
You've probably noticed a few tweaks to the look of asisaid for the last few days. Expect some more in the coming hours and days. Right now, I'm mostly still working on the backend, but I'm finally getting around to enabling some stuff that is noticeable on the public side of the interface. Hopefully in a few more days, asisaid will be nicer than it was before the (cue dramatic music) GREAT BLOGGING CRASH OF OH-FOUR.
On the backend side, I must set things up so that I do not have to manually ping Weblogs.com any longer. I'm sick of doing that!
I did get somewhat distracted over the last two days. I replaced my 6.5 year old Dell/Philips monitor with a flat panel, which required cleaning up my desk. While I was doing that, I decided to reorganize the cables under my desk and remove some of the extra stuff before I overload the circuit. I then neatly bundled the cables together and put everything back in place. Just in time to have my keyboard die. sigh At first I wasn't sure it was the keyboard, because it was intermittent and was causing problems with other USB devices as well. But I've been using another keyboard all day today and things seem much better. So now I just need to figure out what keyboard to replace my trusty old one with.
Right now, I'm using a basic Apple keyboard that I had laying around. It was that or and old Microsoft one. Neither one of them is an ergonomic one like my Dell Comfort Key was. Although I think Apple's mechanisms have a better tactile feel, like an old IBM keyboard. But I think I'll need something with a better angle, and perhaps ergonomic shape, again.
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A serious bicyclist will use an expensive leather saddle. They are hard to break in, but once they feel right, you’ll rip it off a trashed bike and mount it on the next one. I know, I had one in Euorpe where I rode everywhere. A keyboard can get like that. When my ten-pound, steel cased IBM keyboard died, I quit using my computer for three days. Everything I’ve had since then has been no better than “adequate”.
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Hard to let go of things you know work and are comfortable with, it is
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Yes, Flip. All the more so when experince tells you that your comfort with the thing comes from actual superiority of design and function. I’d buy a good old IBM PS/2 keyboard right now if anybody had a working one.
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I like the feel and sound of my apple keyboard. It’s no old-school IBM, but it’s been so many years since I’ve used one of those, I don’t remember it well enough to know what I’m misssing. Unfortunately, the apple keyboard just won’t sit at the right angle and feels “cramped.”
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Flip: How true.
Kevin: I like the feel too, but I think it is the “cramped” part and the angle that is the problem. The clickiness and tactile feel is pretty decent. I’ve never actually used an IBM keyboard, that I can recall. I was never around IBM’s that much until the 90’s.