New Ideas

A new month already, and I actually have time to update within the first week! I don't have any interesting updates on anything, so I'll just have to write about some things I never have time to get to.

Steve Kosmata started doing a cool thing where he posts a short video once a week about stuff you can do in Eclipse; that's what inspired me to take a look at my most frequently used three-stroke words, although I had seen the suggestion to do that before. Last week he brought up the old "conflicts for not having to write puncutation" idea, which I'd also seen kicked around, but I just didn't want to get into it.

In the video, he mentioned using it for words that typically have a comma when they start a sentence - therefore, so, oh, etc. I didn't want to get *too* into it, but those seemed like they might work, so I sat down for an hour and a half or so and played around with it. It turned out to be a bigger project than I was expecting. There are so many words like that, and they could come at the beginning, middle, or end of the sentence, so you might need a comma before, after, before and after, or no commas at all.

I experimented with it, and if it didn't seem like it was going to pick correctly 99% of the time, I didn't go all the way with it. A couple of them I was able to do all four choices for; some of them I could only do two; and some of them I wound up tossing out the idea altogether. There are a ton of words I didn't experiment with, so I'm going to tackle one of those a day. Now the hard part is going to be remembering what words I don't have to write commas for, and in what situations I don't have to write the commas. I really haven't picked up on that at all yet, but I only put things in a couple days ago.

I also changed the function keys on my IE to act like S, so hopefully that will cut down on untrans from accidentally hitting them when I mean to hit S. I wanted to use them for speaker IDs, but it's just a project I don't want to start right now. On the LS, I used to occasionally reach my pinky too far and hit plastic instead of a key, so maybe having the function keys in the space where that plastic will be, and functioning just like the S, will actually be helpful.