Morning all!

My new mouse and keyboard arrived yesterday. The mouse - a Logitech G7 - is very nice. Finding the middle button a bit stiff at the moment, but I'm sure I'll cope. It's laser-based, wireless, and has a little desktop battery recharger and spare battery to just swap over when it runs out. The wireless is so good the mouse still works on the other side of the flat, although clearly I can't see the screen through walls, so it may be overkill, but still, it's good to know it's there if I need it. Whatever, it's shiny and has lots of LEDs that flash, what else do you need to know?

The keyboard, however, not so great. I knew the layout was different, but I thought it might just take me a while to get used to it. I thought it was worth it for the key press action, but it really isn't. I have hit the delete key twice when I thought I was pressing end, page down when I thought I was pressing delete, and page up when I thought I was pressing home. Oh, and lets not forget delete when I thought I was pressing the up arrow, that was a good one. Seriously - what were you thinking when you came up with this one, Microsoft? Putting the down arrow where the left arrow should be is not the way to make a keyboard easier to use. Still I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and have a proper go today, but at this point I can see it going straight out onto ebay.

In other news, I see that I'm downloading the IE Active-X-killing update. Joy. Incidentally, it will break the first flash CD I worked on. Told them we should have released it as an executable. Let the fun commence!

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