Month: March 2008

  • CAPS LOCK: USELESS?

    Is the Caps Lock button on your keyboard useless? Mine is… or it was until yesterday. The old HP console keyboards, found only in datacenters attached to very large servers, had the ‘Esc’ key where the Caps Lock key traditionally is. It took a bit to get used to that, but very quickly you realized…

  • Five-year old spelling

    This morning I received an email with a knock-knock joke from Mikaela (age five). It said: nok nok hooz thar kamol kamol hoo i thot you wr supoost to wok a mile not 2 sekinz love MIKAELA. She wrote it phonetically, spelling the words the way they sound. If you read it out loud, you…