In the past I’ve always got the cheap $5 dollar keyboards, but those come with a great price. My hands and fingers would start to hurt if I type on the keyboard too much (over 30 minutes). I’ve been wanting to get an ergonomics keyboard for awhile now, hoping that it will solve my problems. Right now, I can’t say for sure if this is helping.

The keyboard takes sometime to get use to. As you can see, the middle is curved up, supposedly to make you more comfortable. But as someone who doesn’t type the 100% proper way, it takes time for me to adapt the keyboard.

The keys are fairly comfortable and quiet. The keyboard also comes with software to allow you to customize the buttons at the top. I’ve never really used those keyboard buttons before, but I may give it a try this time. There’s also a zoom button but it’s quite awkward to have it right in the middle. The back and forward buttons are also in the middle, which is kind of odd. My Logitech MX Revolution mice does a better job of zooming and back and forward browsing since it has better customizations.

I was a little disappointed to find that my keyboard didn’t come with the 7 degree riser. When I was in Office Depot to check out the keyboard myself. The riser made typing much more comfortable. But hey, I bought the OEM version of the keyboard, which is of course cheaper. Nothing to complain here. The truth is that Microsoft makes pretty damn good keyboards. Overall, I think the keyboard is well worth the money.

• Doing some client work – writing a pretty big plugin for MyBB
• Playing around with Ajax/Ahah – whatever you want to call it
• Diving into CakePHP – awesome framework. This thing will make my coding life so much easier
• Working on a new layout for this site. Yup, it’s my first attempt at designing one. Don’t expect too much though. It’s a very simple layout I like simplicity anyways
• I just ordered a new keyboard. It’s the Microsoft Ergo Keyboard 4000. It just get here soon. Can’t wait for it.

But here’s what I really should be doing but I’m not

• Do my AP World History summer assignment
• Programming robots
• Creating my portfolio

This is actually the first summer where I’ve actually attempted to accomplish my goals. I don’t see this progress continuing once I go on vacation to Taiwan.