Unfortunately, the chocolate chip cookie recipie story is probably destined to remain an urban legend. It has a base in truth, though. She probably did not use a search engine. She probably thought she'd look for a recipie site, and typed in:
http://www.recipies.com
Six months ago it was a porn site (I was looking for soup recipies). Now it's not. So people can stumble on porn accidentally (how about whitehouse.com). It seems fairly rare, though.
My wrists hurt significantly less since I switched to the Dvorak keyboard about a year ago. But that's just me.
One bit I did find interesting was the bit on the ergonomic studies, and the arguments that:
A. The loads on the right and left hands are equalized.
B. The load on the home (middle) row is maximized.
C. The frequency of alternating hand sequences is maximized and the frequency of same-finger typing is minimized.
It's Friday, so I think I'll hack together a keyboard monitor and see what keys I really hit. Then I'll do some unscientific analyses on the results. If anyone's already got a keyboard monitor, save me a bit of work,eh?
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Unfortunately, the chocolate chip cookie recipie story is probably destined to remain an urban legend. It has a base in truth, though. She probably did not use a search engine. She probably thought she'd look for a recipie site, and typed in:
http://www.recipies.com
Six months ago it was a porn site (I was looking for soup recipies). Now it's not. So people can stumble on porn accidentally (how about whitehouse.com). It seems fairly rare, though.
One bit I did find interesting was the bit on the ergonomic studies, and the arguments that:
A. The loads on the right and left hands are equalized.
B. The load on the home (middle) row is maximized.
C. The frequency of alternating hand sequences is maximized and the frequency of same-finger typing is minimized.
It's Friday, so I think I'll hack together a keyboard monitor and see what keys I really hit. Then I'll do some unscientific analyses on the results. If anyone's already got a keyboard monitor, save me a bit of work,eh?