I’ve been using Windows XP for ‘Office‘.

Today I had some time to ‘tune’ my laptop. I saw few reviews about Windows XP SP3, its advantages and disadvantages. I downloaded an ISO image from MS download center, burned it in a CD and was about to install it….

Suddenly I got a work that took about 5 hours of my time. So I’ve decided to install it some other day.

BTW, what’s your experience in installing Windows XP SP3?

An update: I’ve installed Windows XP SP3 lately and it’s doing well so far.

Now a days, it’s very difficult to live in this Web 2.0 era without the knowledge of HTML and a WYSIWYG editor. My favourite editor is pagebreeze.  It has plenty of features and yet simple to use. Check it out. You would like that too. It was of great help for me while doing a project in oDesk. In fact, it was recommended by a oDesk buyer(James Pumfrey). Unfortunately it isn’t available for linux. I’m looking for a good WYSIWYG editor in linux. Any recommendations?

By the way, what do you use to do simple coding in HTML?

If you like to type effectively, switch over to Colemak.

There are many disadvantages with QWERTY. Here are a few of those,

1. If one happens to type for long hours (say more than 5 hours a day) using qwerty, he/she might get Repetitive strain injury (RSI), pain or discomfort.
2. It(qwerty) was designed to prevent the keys from sticking, without any consideration to ergonomic or efficiency aspects.
3. It was designed so the word “typewriter” could be typed on the top row to ease demonstrations.
4. It suffers from an extremely high ratio of home-row-jumping sequences (e.g. “minimum”).
5. It places very rare letters in the best positions, so your fingers have to move a lot more.

Do you like to watch my Colemak speed? Click here.

An interesting thing happened to me today regarding colemak. Few people came to my house for troubleshooting my laptop. They came when I was away from home. They got into windows (auto login) as I hadn’t provided admin password. They tried to find out the problem. But they couldn’t. When I came back, they were astonished to see the way I protected my laptop just by changing the layout. Thanks to colemak.