Today as it is a funny type of Christmas Day - not your hot sunny Christmas day of the Travel & postcard type but somewhat soggy and wet. So as I sit playing with the new bluetooth keyboard on my iPad and muse how sometimes the tested things are the best my thoughts are floating about several ideas.
Having tried to type with my thumbs on my iPad Screen at any kind of speed I have now ditched the idea of doing any serious kind of typing on screen and returned to the imperfect world of the QWERTY keyboard which while also not a perfect device does provide the ability to use more than two fingers (or in my case just Mr Pointer). Amusing that the QWERTY was actually designed with the keys arranged the way they are in an effort to slow the would be speed demon female typists of the early 20th century so the would not gum the works of mechanical type-weiters. Amusing because the human spirit as it always does adapted and found it could touch type and thwart the QWERTY design. Now the why is lost and what we find is we can't do without the QWERTY design.
How does this relate to Christmas? Well its the same story in some ways it can be that religion does not alway live up to expectation but at least the spirit is right and it kind of gets us there in the end - so much so that one is left to thinking well I can't just keep typing with my thumbs?
Merry Christmas one and all... and a happy new year. Lets make it a good one.
