A great deal of my brilliance has been lost to you, my loyal reader(s), due to an annoying feature of the Dell laptop touchpad: if I brushed my palm or thumb against the pad while typing, the scroll and select features were instantly enabled, causing entire paragraphs to disappear and my cursor to appear somewhere earlier in my text.
True to my procrastinating nature, I neglected to undertake a search for the cause of this annoying feature for some time. Endowed with some rare free moments this morning, I undertook to find my little laptop gremlin. Thanks to some helpful folks at Askville.com, I learned why I was having this problem, and how to fix it. A quick scroll to the taskbar, a click of the touchpad icon, and a unchecked box later, my problem was solved.
I now have to use my left mouse key on my touchpad to click, but that is a small price to pay. Retraining my hands has required only a few minutes of frustration. Normally, I don't even use the touchpad, but I make the occasional exception for travel and lawn chair surfing on nice days.
Today I stand much relieved. As I imagine so do you, my dear and loyal reader(s).
Despair not, ye who enter here!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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