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I'm getting a new mobile. The people who sold me my original are offering me a new phone for free - same number as I currently have and a committment to Orange for another 12 months (but then I didn't plan to change anyhow) and the phone is mine. It will be delivered to work on Thursday. The only problem is that it doesn't have data capabilities or infra red - which means no permanently available modem for my palm pilot. Still, if it turns out this is a problem I can just go back to using the old phone. Meanwhile I get to play with those face-plate things - I can customise one with an Ankh. Hmm...
Mar. 12th, 2002
I wonder if I'm really as pale as I look in all my photographs. I mean, the flash on my camera is pretty bright but I look positively anaemic. And I don't change colour in summer. I don't burn either, which is a blessing, but why do I look so ghostly? With the dark hair, the black clothes and the only-silver-jewelry you'd think I was a goth. I'm not though. Buying a Sandman T-shirt was just a one off. Really.
Keyboard observation
Mar. 12th, 2002 07:27 pmWith Gavin's talk of his dying keyboards I've just examined my own. The keys are wearing away. There are slash marks across them where the years have seen my fingernails strike down so often they're leaving marks. The worst damaged keys are:
E - understandable. Most used letter in English.
A - understandable again. A vowel and a home key.
S - again - a commonly used letter and a home key.
N - Huh?!?
On the right hand side of the keyboard the only keys to suffer this fate are the full stop and the letter N. Why the letter N? I don't type that many words with Ns in them. It's not a home key. I don't have to pass it on the way to the space bar or anything. I really don't understand this.
Beyond the scrape marks (and I just noticed that the letter I has been affected slightly) there's the issue of the letters wearing off the tops. This doesn't matter as I touch type but I've lost the N, most of the M and the O. D is half there and H is fading. Despite the slashes A is mostly there, as is E. The numbers are fine and the F keys across the top of the board are used so rarely they have a layer of dust across them.
And this concludes Keyboard 101. Discuss.
E - understandable. Most used letter in English.
A - understandable again. A vowel and a home key.
S - again - a commonly used letter and a home key.
N - Huh?!?
On the right hand side of the keyboard the only keys to suffer this fate are the full stop and the letter N. Why the letter N? I don't type that many words with Ns in them. It's not a home key. I don't have to pass it on the way to the space bar or anything. I really don't understand this.
Beyond the scrape marks (and I just noticed that the letter I has been affected slightly) there's the issue of the letters wearing off the tops. This doesn't matter as I touch type but I've lost the N, most of the M and the O. D is half there and H is fading. Despite the slashes A is mostly there, as is E. The numbers are fine and the F keys across the top of the board are used so rarely they have a layer of dust across them.
And this concludes Keyboard 101. Discuss.