Eric Bergen

It always takes me a few tries to get a good flow going on a blog entry. I also _hate_ touching my mouse. In my world every time I have to move my hand over and use my mouse it’s a delay in my work. I would really like to get one of those mice that tracks my eyeballs and uses a short cut key to click. Until then I will continue optimizing everything I do on my computer to use the mouse as little as possible. Back to the point while trying to get a good flow going on a blog entry I always end up writing a few sentences then deleting the last one. I do this by holding down the backspace key. When deleting a word or two I press the delete key the correct number of times but for more than two words I tend to hold down the delete key. In wordpress 1.5 and every other thing I use in my daily life when I let up off the backspace key the deleting stops. In wordpress 2.0 there is some funky jazz going on in the text box that causes the delete events to be slow and thus spool up. When I let up off the back space key innocent characters disappear from the text area. This is not only sad but very frustrating because I have changed my habits to move the mouse, highlight text and press the delete key once.
As I do with everything else on this blog I’m going to rant about the problem before going out and finding a solution. Ranting here first clears my head so I can stop being so upset and actually focus on the solution. Once I find it either (I wrote the word either 4 times. I picked up my mouse, highlighted the previous sentence past the word either and pressed the delete key. I then got upset at myself for acting out that bad habit, wrote the old sentence, held down the delete key, and destroyed most of the word either. I then rewrote it and tried to get the timing down, over shot and destroyed it again.) I will post a new entry or a little [Updated:] block will appear below this post. I’m not sure why I’m talking about my quirky writing habits but it’s been a long day and I feel guilty for not posting anything on here for a while. Not because I think people want to read what I write but because my writing gets worse if I don’t practice.