This will probably be short

First off, I've been delaying posting a new blog post because I'm currently trying to learn the Colemak keyboard layout. It's a more efficiant key layout than Dvorak (which was what I used to type the 1st blog post at around 70-80ish WPM (words per minute). But now I'm probably at 15 WPM with Colemak.

Now I originally started learning Dvorak around the beginning of 2006. Since then I became faster at it than even QWERTY. I don't know where I found out about Dvorak, but the QWERTY layout pisses me off. It was actually designed to slow the typer down by moving more common letters apart so that the typewriter hammers wouldn't get stuck together.

2 things I really like about Colemak over Dvorak:

1. Turns the near-useless CAPS LOCK key into a 2nd backspace key (which is much easier to reach as well)
2. Keeps Z, X, C, and V in the same place as QWERTY for easier keyboard shortcuts

That's all I have to really say about my keyboard layout. (NOTE: my actual keyboard is a standard QWERTY keyboard)

Now a quick note on my biphasic sleep. I don't think I was STILL getting enough sleep at night, so my night nap is 4.5 hours from about 11:30pm/12am to 4am/4:30am. Today was actually only the 2nd day I was able to get up after my 4.5 hour nap. All the other days I went to bed too late which would leave me with only an hour before getting ready for school, which wasn't enough time for me to justify getting up. XD

Last note, I ended up installing Windows XP (Home Edition) on my PC 9 days ago. Before I was using Windows 2000 pro, and was VERY much for the idea of 2k>XP. Here's why I ended up switching: (quoted from an email I sent to my friend Bob)

well, for one, I screwed up the way Win2k booted which resulted in it not recognizing my password.

2) I couldn't use the newest graphic card drivers

3) I discovered what services I can disable to make XP not a RAM hog

4) Sean gave me an XP Home CD that he used when I got this PC off of him (but I was still stickin with 2k :P)

5) I've used 2k long enough and know a lot about it. At the time I got this PC I really didn't know THAT much about XP, but after helping my sister with her XP laptop so much, I learned much more.

And one thing I didn't say in my email: fear of programs and apps deciding to no longer support running on 2k.

That's all I'm going to go into now, because I'm still considerably inefficient with typing with Colemak (I try to use it whenever I can, I gotta practice somehow!)