We all love you, shifty disco girl.

[venta]

Note to self: There is a shift key on the right of the keyboard. Look, it's quite big, just below the enter key. You should consider using it.

Because, you see, I don't. I use the left-hand-side shift key pretty much exclusively. Obviously, if the key I'm shifting is on the LHS of the keyboard, this can involve twisting my wrist round awkwardly. If I do it too much (as I seem to have done in the last 24 hours) I end up with quite a painful sensation in the outside of my wrist.

Does anyone have a deliberate policy (or know what their accidental policy is) on shift-key use ? When do you use right or left ?

If you were typing a long string of caps JUST LIKE THIS, how would you do it ? When someone noticed a while back that I occasionally use capslock for this kind of thing there were howls of disgust and derision as if I'd been caught out shagging a donkey, or somesuch. Do you ever use capslock ? Is there an optimal length of a string of letters at which it becomes "worth it" to use the capslock key ?

Further note to self: Hey, there's a Control key over on the right, too! Who'd have thought it ?

Comments

Re: right Control key

[kissifa.livejournal.com]

As is the left shift key for some of us. It's always the designated "Walk" key - it is essential to making Lara Croft slowly stride up to the cliff you're about to make her swan dive head first off of, or for making your alien slowly creep up on the unsuspecting marines from the shadows.

Typing? We don't need no stinking left shift key capitals! Right hand pinky all the way!

Re: right Control key

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Yes! Sing it, sister!