Never done.
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So I basically love this thing. It’s not perfect, but it’s very good. Even a short period of using it reveals a number of obviously frustrating shortcomings, but they are only meaningful in the context of how successful the slate PC can be.
This is pretty cool. l am writing this text using my Wacom tablet and XP’S built-in recognizer. Without training!
l am going to have to start writing nice things about Microsoft. l am just winging it without reading any manuals. Clearly, neatness counts.
okay, there has to be some way to train it. No mouse! No keyboard. No RSI?
Geek city with bum wrists.
I am writing this entry without typing. Several weeks into my Carpal Tunnel experience, typing remains a very difficult undertaking. I have now gone through a variety of user input devices including trackballs, optical mice, tablets and more.
But the great surprise of the past few days has been the amazing quality of the built in speech recognition in Windows XP.
In trying to find a reliable way to synch my SonyEricsson T610 Phone with Outlook contacts, I discovered just how staggeringly bad their software and support really is. I’m embarassed by the hours I spent finding out, too.
After over 20 years at the keyboard I’ve hit a major roadblock that’s stopping me in my tracks. Last week I was diagnosed with carpal tunnel in both wrists and tendonitis in several places. It’s not clear how serious or long-term a problem this presents, but I must cut down my typing immediately, so posts will be fewer for awhile.
As I study this, and try out a variety of new input devices, I am also wondering about what’s been different in the past month that could have contributed to the developing pain and soreness. Ergonomics and different software that drove up mouse usage are the prime suspects so far.
If you work with Java and databases, you really have to check out Hibernate because it’s so well done and it’s transformative in what it enables in the application. It’s doing all the O-R persistence for my Java classes on a new project and I’m very happy with it. I’ve included a short sample that relies on XDoclet’s Hibernate tags to simplify the mapping file generation.
