Stupid mouse

Posted by Simon Welsh | 4 January 2009 | Comments (1)

I have problems with the connection between my internal keyboard and trackpad and whatever it is that they're connected to. It made Growl messages (thanks to HardwareGrowler) like:

appear.

So I went and bought myself a shiny new Apple Wireless Keyboard and a horrible M$ branded wireless mouse. That stupid mouse has already gone through two sets of batteries. The standard, budget ones it came with and some shiny, silver ones I got when those died. Compared to my keyboard which is still running fine off the three shiny silver ones Apple gave me.

Means I'm posting this just with a keyboard, so I have no idea if I'll be able to stick in the image. I'll try though. And stupid TinyMCE seems to like stealing my tabs, making it even harder to tab off onto the button I need to use to insert an image. BAH!

The keyboard isn't extended, and doesn't have the keypad as fn of some other keys, so I can't use mouse keys either.

At least I can still do most things with a keyboard, but having a mouse makes it so much easier, especially getting out of this content field.

It stopped thinking it was in the normal Content field, so it tabbed me to the extra content field. Means there's going to me a More link in the standard RSS and on the front page. I would link to the page that tells you how to get rid of the more links in the RSS feed and just get all the content at once, but that's complicated, even with a mouse, so you're just going to get instructions.

Click on the Site Updates tab thingy at the top (next to Blag and Services)

Read the post entitled More Links in RSS.

Now I have to figure out how to get out of this field, back into Content, stick the cursor where I want the image to appear, then get out of that field and stick in the image. Fun.

And that's not working, Guess I'll just use Snatch Test on Larry. Or VNC. Though I did manage to get the Image insert tab thingy open with the keyboard :)

Got it inserted, after enabling JavaScript again. Now I get to try to do stuff without a mouse.

My elephants smell nice.

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