Bat Alert...

Just got a call from bat in Moscow. It seems that her passport has been stolen, so she will be stuck there for at least another few weeks, while the authorities laboriously arrange for her visas to be reissued.

Waaaah! Sob! No Bat for ages and ages! Noooooooooooo!

I should be able to say more after I have had a chance to talk to her tonight.

:-(

Touchstream reactions

I need to take my mind off worrying about Bat being stuck in Moscow, so I thought I might just as well get on with sorting out my promised journal entry on my feelings about the new keyboard I've been getting to grips with recently.

Just to recap, my arthritis symptoms have been much worse than usual recently, so I have been looking around for alternatives to my usual habit of typing on a laptop on my knee. Oddly enough, I think that my preference for this was probably subconscious adjustment to my problem: my laptop keyboard has a very light action anyway, and using its touchpad instead of a mouse probably also helped. My initial thought was to go for a DataHand keyboard, but after Leo's negative experience, I thought better of it. Leo had been looking at the possibility of the Touchstream, and mentioned it to me last Saturday. I checked out the web site, looked up quite a few things people had said about them, and bought two of them.

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Verdict after 2 days: Yes, it does what it says on the tin!

I'll post again in a couple of weeks to pass on my feelings then. What, of course, I can't say yet is whether it really will help with RSI, but so far so good on that. The zero force technology is for real.

Change of PhD subject...?

... at least according to the latest letter from the Board of Graduate Studies. It seems that I am to be studying Political Thought and Intellectual History. happily, this is still to be in the computer lab with the same supervisor, so I can't really complain that much...

Looks like I'd better phone them on Monday...