Those Who Live by the Five Button Mouse…
or, I’ve Buttered My Bread and Now I Have to Lay in it.
I did not intend for my second post to be a rant. I won’t let that stop me.
Although I work primarily on a Mac in my spare time, my work machine is a Windows box. I also several at home, with three currently in service. In both locations I use a Microsoft 5-button optical mouse. I use the comfortable beige one, not that awful grey one with all the ergonomics of a rock. Just as with the scroll wheel before it, the five button has become something I am keenly aware of missing when it’s not present. I don’t even use all five… it’s the thumb button that makes this mouse special to me. It is wired by default to Internet Explorer’s Back button. I can’t express how much I love not having to drag my mouse to the toolbar every time I want to back up. Sheer Genius, as I have extolled to many.
And so it was a cruel twist indeed today, when my beloved thumb button stabbed me in the back. I was entering a post for this blog into a webpage (via wikieditish. I had been at this for a good 10 minutes, and was nearly done. It was then, for reasons I can not quite recall, I casually tried to nudge my mouse away from my keyboard an inch or so. And (you saw this coming) hit the thumb button. Back, Browser!
Oops. Goodbye post. I did try (in vain) to use the Forward button from the menu bar to return, but the form was cleared, the work lost.
Why is it that those we love the most hurt us the most?
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5 button mouse.
I hate it when that happens. I had a four page comment here and I to was the victim of that fifth button. So now all I will say is that I like the new red and you need to add purple.