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The smell and feel of a shiny new keyboard (in the case, my 4th Logitech Illuminated Keyboard.) I love the light feel of the keys. I have one on my desktop, I often use one with my laptop, there's a third backup that I had to fix the USB connector on, and the cat broke one at 3AM one morning, it decided to shove it off the desk and it must have hit the floor in just the right way. I was sorely tempted to serve the cat the next morning alongside a rasher of bacon!
Marc
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I have a code[^] keyboard and it is a beast, and no way a cat would be able to move it (1kg with real rubber feets).
A little bit noisier and costly than a cheap keyboard, but works very well.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Too many keys. Not enough space around the arrow keys.
At home I use an IBM 101-key keyboard, non-clicky, made in 1997.
At work I use whatever's-around -- at the moment it's a Logitech.
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Do you have the Green Cherry switches or the Clear?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The Cherry MX Green model.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: I have a code[^] keyboard and it is a beast, and no way a cat would be able to move it (1kg with real rubber feets).
Don't be so sure. Cotton tailed yard rats can weigh twice that, and they're popular cat toys.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Marc Clifton wrote: Illuminated Keyboard
Illuminati keyboard? ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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I have a Wave and I like it a lot but the problem is this is the 3rd one I've had, they only last about 2 years.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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. . . and it's the lounge.
Well - there's a lot of creepy people who might mistake the red stripes on a tabby for their next pan-fried meal.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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And which one do you prefer? 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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אני צמחוני
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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If you are what you eat and cats only eat cat food, and what makes up the cat food chain eventually only ate vegetables, then it should be OK for you. Bacon, on the other hand... hmm.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The key to it all is "IF" - for it (should be) often said:
"If your nose hung between your legs you'd breathe through your mouth more often"
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Something I hate I now hate even more.
The idiots that set up these systems try to make them seem so friendly and concerned.
"I'm so sorry. I didn't . . . Let's try again. OK, let's try it another way"
It's an elephanting computer. Just request data and accept input. Don't double the length of each step (if your lucky, only double) to attempt to make it seem human. Hire someone (who does not reside in a call center in Indian) to seem human.
So damn stupid. Annoying. Aggravating. Who wants to be patronized by a machine.
Background: called number posted by website to get my uid, as I wasn't able to log into CVS/CareMark online pharmacy. Phone b1tch-machine offers menu after menu, none remotely relevant. Then, when it finally says it will get a representative it starts into a new loop. Ultimately, pressing '0' about twenty times annoyed the PC enough to put me through to a people: who says their systems are being maintained and they're having some problems (including uid/pwd problems).
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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On a pay per minute premium line, you need to keep them hanging on as long as possible. 
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Makes you wonder why the more non-KSS call centers don't use those techniques...
Or do they?
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I'd ask an expert, but he's playing the man-flu card.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Our local telecommunications company with an automated system that want you to describe in a few brief words what you want.
All you have to do is swear and cuss at it and then it responds.
"I'll put you through to an operator now."
Works every time...
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"All you have to do is swear and cuss at it and then it responds."
Excellent warmup for when you get to talk to the customer service rep. (see how optimistic I can be!)
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Hi All,
Regulars like Dave & Nagy can probably answer this, where is Darlek Dave, I seem to recall seeing something about him being ticked off... If he has gone for good I will miss the CCC daily (never got one!). So have toys left pram and he has gone taking buckets of Ink?...
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I think it was a bad case of Man-flu.
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Dunno what's up. Today he is mostly moaning about the Mike Read 'song' on FB. Not criticising it of course, but rallying against his perception of PC [gone made] in the form of outrage. I kindly inromed him that it was a shyte song, performed in a shyte style in support of a shyte.
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It has really tarnished the reputation of ex Radio One DJs in this country.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I saw Mike Read on the tellybox lasty night and thought - at last a Radio One DJ that hasn't done anything "regrettable". Then the song came on, I'm surprised he didn't have blackface. 
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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I'll be honest, until this story hit the news yesterday I thought he was dead.
I think I was happier then.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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