{"id":755,"date":"2005-12-02T06:51:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T14:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=755"},"modified":"2006-01-19T16:52:20","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T00:52:20","slug":"japanese-keyboard-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/12\/02\/japanese-keyboard-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Keyboard &amp; Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"workspace0911.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/workspace0911.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"157\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mike,<\/p>\n<p>Here are two pictures of where my fingers are doing their pecking these  days. The first is my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.umd.edu\/~ed\/nobeyama\/workspace0911.JPG\"> workspace<\/a>, where you can see my laptop sitting next to a keyboard and the corner of  a monitor &#8220;pcheliog2&#8221;  (which is currently crunching away on a project). Look closely at the laptop screen and you might recognize someone drinking an Old Fashioned.<br \/>\nThe 2nd picture shows the bane of my existence, the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.umd.edu\/~ed\/nobeyama\/japanesekeyboard0910.JPG\"> Japanese keyboard<\/a>&#8211;it&#8217;s about half katakana and half english. The upper line of keys has different locations for &#8220;&#038;&#8221;,&#8221;&#8216;&#8221;, etc. In fact almost all of the symbol keys are mispositioned for american fingers. And the space key is shorter to accomodate more katakana keys.  What a mess!  No touch typing on this baby, for sure.  When I set up my password, which ends in &#038;&#038;, for this computer network, I  didn&#8217;t realize I&#8217;d need to log in on another workstation to copy files over, and that that workstation has an american keyboard.  My password didn&#8217;t work on it because the &#038; is over the 7 (where it&#8217;s &#8216;sposed  to be).  The only cure was to change passwords, and let the new one propagate through the network.<br \/>\nIf you think the Japanese keyboard is an accident waiting to happen, you should see the Japanese Mozilla browser. It&#8217;s an accident in progress.  I&#8217;ll try to send a picture of that one later.<\/p>\n<p>Shamaru (alias rakkity)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike, Here are two pictures of where my fingers are doing their pecking these days. The first is my workspace, where you can see my laptop sitting next to a keyboard and the corner of a monitor &#8220;pcheliog2&#8221; (which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/12\/02\/japanese-keyboard-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rakkity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}