{"id":7,"date":"2003-08-15T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-15T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Rants\/fivebutton.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"fivebutton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2003\/08\/15\/fivebutton\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Live by the Five Button Mouse&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>or, I&#8217;ve Buttered My Bread and Now I Have to Lay in it.<\/h6>\n<p>I did not intend for my second post to be a rant.  I won&#8217;t let that stop me.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s not present.  I don&#8217;t even use all five&#8230; it&#8217;s the thumb button that makes this mouse special to me.  It is wired by default to Internet Explorer&#8217;s Back button.  I can&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blosxom.com\/plugins\/edit\/wikieditish.htm\">wikieditish<\/a>.  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!<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that those we love the most hurt us the most?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>or, I&#8217;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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}