Time for a break

[Tereza Snyder]

On Oct 4, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> You know you've been doing too much coding when:
>
> ...you're in the middle of writing an email message and you press the
> tab key to format a paragraph...
>

In the current issue of The Atlantic, in the "Word Fugitives" column:
>
>
> Now Michael McWatters, of New York City, writes, “I use a computer  
> for the better part of my waking life, and I’ve noticed that certain  
> repetitive keyboard tasks are making their way into my noncomputer  
> life. For example, I recently knocked a jar off the counter, and a  
> little voice inside yelped, Command-Z! (the keyboard shortcut for  
> Undo). Ditto for the time I accidentally ripped a page in a book. A  
> friend mentioned that she recently lost her keys and thought,  
> Command-F (Find). There should be a term for this confusion, as it’s  
> only going to become more common.”


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Tereza Snyder
Califex Software, Inc.