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At work, I use a left-handed mouse with the keys reversed so that I click with the right button and right click with the left. It's so that the movement mimics what the fingers on my right hand would be doing if I were mousing that way. At home, I use my laptop with the touchpad. This becomes important every Tuesday night when I have to Remote Desktop into my computer at work (making 2 hops because that's the way the network is set up) to release the latest build of the application I'm working on. At home, the touchpad buttons work as they should, click and right click where they should be. But when in my Remote Desktop Window, I have to remember to reverse the keys. It takes several tries each time until my fingers are able to remember.

I suppose I could just switch the mouse buttons temporarily, but I'm not on for very long at all, so it always seems like a waste of time. I suppose I could go back to mousing right-handed; I've got the trackball after all, but I get repetetive stress in my shoulder so easily that it doesn't really seem like the best solution.

And all of this was just to say that I just spent several seconds cursing and clicking around, and do so every week because I am too lazy to change my settings. If I want to be able to work from home with any regularity, I'll have to get a mouse anyway, because the touchpad is fine for screwing around in teh internets, but I know it would just drive me crazy if I had to use it to do actual work. I cut and paste stuff way too much. Oh yeah, and there's all the Freecell I play . . . That's much easier with a mouse, believe me.

P.S. Thanks for the heads up, schmi, I picked up Fragile Things tonight before skate practice so I could start reading it before bed. Which is where I am headed right now.