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Today I went for a cold walk in the wind. The wind was blowing from west to East so for at least half of the walk I had it in my face. This was a good day to wear a cagoule and to wear the face mask, even when people were not around. The windchill made walking unpleasant and I even considered skipping my daily walk but didn’t. I am disciplined enough to walk, even when it is unpleasant. This weather is frustrating because we have the cold, without any of the beauty. It would be nice to have this cold, with snow and ice, rather than just ice.

I really enjoy using the EEE PC but there is one tiny flaw, the keyboard is to small to do any real typing. That’s why when I got home I plugged in a spare keyboard and mouse from a desktop and started to type. It works really well. No problems detecting the keyboard or anything. Since we’ve all got a spare keyboard and mouse lying around why not take advantage of that when we want to do some real work on the EEE PC. By the way I can touch type on the EEE so this is a question of comfort and playfulness.

It’s two days later and I’m close to touch typing on the asus eee and I’m enjoying the machine just as much. I did try to upgrade to openoffice 2.3.1 from 2.0 and no luck so far. As a result I’m stuck with relying on the cloud instead. One friend found the machine hard to type on. That’s because with this type of keyboard your fingers are bigger than the keys. It’s important to make sure you’ve pressed properly. For long documents it’s still a challenge to use. For tweeting it’s good.

Today i went to buy myself a eee pc during my lunch break and by the time I was heading for home  the machine was recharged and ready to be played with. So far my biggest challenge is the tiny keyboard. Hard to touch type on it. Keep having to be careful to press each key properly. Other than that it took only a few minues per change I wanted to apply and the forums have quite a bi of information. It’s a nice little machine and it’s relatively cheap. It’s also open source. Means tha it should be interesting to see how much I can get done on such a platform. That’s it, enough typing on this keyboard for now.