My son is a big gamer, and he swears the X-Box cheats. As far as I know there isn’t an artificial intelligence inside the X-box, but I can sympathize with his technlogical frustration.
You see, I do most of my writing my pda. Now before you get the image of me pecking out words with my stylus while hunched over the small Smartphone sized screen, let me reassure you. I have a full-sized, folding wireless keyboard such as you would find on a 15.4 inch laptop.
But the problem is my keyboard. You see about a year after I bought the keyboard/pda system the keyboard casing cracked right where the wireless wand attaches. As the wires in the wireless wand didn’t seem to be broken, I kept using it and indeed encountered few problems.
Until lately.
Now when I open unfold the keyboard to begin working, the fun begins. First, the enter key doesn’t work. So while I can scroll through the files, I can’t actually open them unless I double tap the file. But if I do that, I find that most of the keys on the right side of the keyboard don’t work. Most come back after sliding the keyboard off and on for a while.
So then it will be only a few keys that no longer work. They are usually u,i,o, and p. Do you know how many words in the English langauge use those letters? After a while, the keys will start working within 10 taps. Then they’ll spit out double or triple the number of letters, just to mess with my head.
What fun!
But wait, it gets better. I can never get a capital i. In fact to get one, I have to open a previous file and copy one to paste later. Good times.
As you can imagine my productivity has been impaired and the fingertips of my right hand hurt. So Friday, I looked into buying a replacement keyboard. And decided that my money might be better spent buying a new system.