Exploring The Shift
The shift is not a thing. It is the action of discovering Self.

I recently found three nice flash applets which lets you play with music in interactive ways.

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After another wave of spam comments yesterday, I decided to add a verification code to the comment form. For those of you who are using the same software and who have a bit of basic HTML/PHP knowledge, I'm retracing the steps here.

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I just found an article named Death to Caps Lock on Wired which addresses a minor annoyance of mine.

Pieter Hinjens, CEO of a company named iMatrix who not only started a blog but a whole full fledged campaign to remove the caps-lock key from modern keyboards, which immediately drew the attention of major media (Wired, Slashdot, Der Spiegel).

I guess this somewhat indicates that he must right about his assessment that this key is mainly used by people who program FORTRAN or those who tend to think that SHOUTING in their emails and posts will give them the attention they deserve (in the great hierarchy of things both those groups range in one class together with finding a toenail in your cake and hearing the type of music you usually hear on voice mail systems).

However, my personal experience regarding this key is that everybody (except those aforementioned groups) only uses this key intentionally in order to turn caps-lock off after it had been pressed unintentedly.

"I've launched a campaign to rid the world of the caps lock key. Sure, there are more serious problems to solve but please, think of the children! How am I going to explain to my kids why some of the most valuable keyboard real estate is squatted by a large, useless key that above all you must not press! Our campaign mission is simple: to send a message to the computer industry to force it (by any means necessary) to retire the CAPS key. It's going to be a hard, long, and possibly very embarassing war on uppercase, but some things just need to be done." (from the Caps-Off blog)

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