Carpal tunnel

My right wrist is currently aching like hell (stop sniggering at the back), so I want one of these. $249 being a bit steep for a keyboard, I’ve gone homebrew and constructed a stand for the Powerbook made out of the front panel of a drawer that got taken to bits after the desk it belonged to fell to bits during the house move. (It actually looks better than it sounds - stripped pine seems to go with aluminium, at least it does if you’ve decided you can’t afford a iCurve.)

All of which construction means I can now hook up my old Microsoft Natural keyboard, which is forcing me to keep my wrists in the right position - not that it’s doing anything for my typing speed at the moment. And not wanting to use a mouse because it hurts is a powerful incentive to get properly to grips with Quicksilver. Tomorrow’s job is to see if it’s possible to get a dongle that converts from a PS/2 trackball to a USB connection - in which case the trackball is going to be pressed back into action, and hopefully my wrist gets some relief.

Until I started suffering, I would never have believed that crap mouse technique could have such a significant effect on your joints. It was all the fault of a contract job I did a couple of years back, where I spent entire days building screen forms a click-and-drag at a time - ever since when my right wrist joint has felt like it’s filled with carborundum grit…

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