The damned key, the wretched key,
the worst key on the keyboard.
The bane of my life,
the so inconsiderately placed that it must have been on purpose key,
the key that leads me to anger and forces me to drink.
The key with the L. E. D. all of it’s own.
The accident key
the oh bugger key,
the I’ve been typing forever and have to start again key.
The loud key,
the shouting key,
the thief of all intimacy.
The hated key, the hate-filled key
the key that eats the soul from me.
Who will save me from the key?
Who can overcome its power to destroy
and the weight of its get-in-the-way-of-me?
Set me free.
From the key.
The wretched fucking caps-lock key.
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But since I’m assuming Apple didn’t take you up on your free advertising offer I won’t recommend any of those things at this time. :)
I think everyone I know is sick of me complaining about that damn key. If they are going to use it at all they might as well stick it somewhere out of the way. The only reason it is there is because typewriters needed it there. *sigh*
Am I right in thinking that you have more poetry up your sleeves from years gone by???
Maybe this should become a weekly feature. rant via poem. :)
(The backspace key is the most frequently used key on my keyboard, I reckon. I wonder if you can get programs to monitor that?)
I have learned to seek out development programs that allow for easy access to a function like ”convert selection to lowercase” and learn the keyboard shortcuts.
As for the most frequently used key on my machine (I’m talking about my home OS X machine here), judging by the wear on the letters it’s the control key (I use loads of auto-type stuff via Youpi key), followed closely by the apple/command key.
problem solved.
Propelled by torrents of pointing and laughing, my current solution is to leave the keys in place but with chunks of bath sponge stuffed invisibly underneath. You can still use the keys in question with a very deliberate poke, and it’s much harder to press them by accident.
One day the humble bath sponge will be recognised for being the giant technological leap it is.
- beep when you press Shift and a letter key while Caps Lock is active;
- (better:) switch Caps Lock off when you press Shift, just like on a manual typewriter;
- rECOGNISE wORDS lIKE tHIS aND Turn Them Into This (a bummer if you’re in dIRE sTRAITS but ok otherwise);
- and probably many other solutions.
Doesn’t your OS have something like that? Weird.
Me, I don’t mind Caps Lock at all, but if I ever find the bastards who keep moving the backslash, I’ll backslash THEM.
(Sorry, couldn’t resist. Should’ve tried harder.)
Ahh.. thanx ..
-= Aaron =-
Well, lessee…If you actually ‘type’then you must control the ‘A’ contact of your left hand(left pinky)which has a tendency to ‘shunt’ over from the ‘A’ key to the ‘Caps-lock’key while you are distracted by the ‘hard copy’ you are copying. Even real Pro’s have this problem.
If you use the ‘hunt-and-peck’ single digit system of copying then you must remember to pay close attention to your keys AND all your digits, as your single digit hits keys surrounding the ‘caps-lock’ one or two un-used digits may strike it(caps-lock) by coincidence.And lastly you must use the RAM (short term memory)of your bio-puter(brain) and remember to release the ‘caps-lock’ after using it.
All I ever wanted in OS X was to have a simple caps lock notification beep (Windows has had this for years). Surely not too much to ask?
I finally found it in John Woodward’s “CAPS Warn”: http://thewoodwards.us/sw/CAPSWarn/