I'm deathly afraid of carpal tunnel. The computer industry doesn't pay enough attention to this injury or ergonomic issues associated with computer usage. Craning a neck down to read a cramped laptop screen while typing on a flat keyboard is the norm, and while that satisfies a minimalist aethestic, it induces...
Almost lost amidst the announcements yesterday of Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet is their new browser, Silk. Though some blogs picked up the story after all the hardware hype and media attention died down, most chose to focus on its privacy implications instead of the technology[1]. Out of all the analyses I...
It's been a little over a month since I decided to learn Dvorak. I switched over the OS's keyboard settings and spent a few days practicing typing. I guess the Dvorak tutorials were completely right; there is totally a transition period in moving from QWERTY to Dvorak, and my fingers are...
One of the things I've always wanted to try was to switch to a Dvorak keyboard layout. It's one of those computing optimizations that seem to make sense in practice, but hard to start given that my livelihood is directly dependent on typing reasonably fast. Years of muscle memory is hard...
