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Oct 24, 2006 13:13

It's the last week before NaNoWriMo, and aside from one tiny detail, I'm ready to get started ( Read more... )

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ilurker October 24 2006, 18:44:32 UTC
Leave it to Matt to learn a keyboard layout that is so obscure it was probnably only theoretical before you attempted it.

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furre October 24 2006, 20:04:39 UTC
I looked into trying it out about a year ago...

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korivak October 24 2006, 20:20:14 UTC
Shai Coleman, the creator of Colemak estimates that there are between a hundred and two hundred Colemak users in the world. That means that entire dozens of people have already made the switch before me!

Colemak: For people that are too cool to use the less obscure layout that no one uses.

But seriously, it is better than QWERTY and is easier to use than Dvorak. And it's catching on fairly well considering the tiny market for alternate keyboards and the fact that it's only ten and a half months old.

That, and I just wouldn't be Matty if I didn't do wild and crazy things for highly logical reasons.

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ilurker October 25 2006, 02:59:48 UTC
Are those hundreds of people actually just incarnations of yourself disguised as Sanctuary characters trying to establish a mythology in which you aren't some sort of crazy techno-hermit destined to be bullied by Linux nerds? Hmmmmmm?

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