About half a year ago, I heard this story that QWERTY keyboards (and their variants) were actually designed to slow down typists (to avoid typewriters getting stuck), contrary to the Dvorak layout, which was specifically designed for speed and comfort. After having learned to count binary on my hands (yes, you can count to 1023 using only your 10 fingers!), this seemed like another fun and freaky thing to learn, and this could actually prove to be useful over time. After all, I switched from AZERTY to QWERTY before, how hard could this be ? At least I was right about it being useful.

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Well, i never thought it would happen, but on popular demand i finally opened up a blog. Not that i think my life is interesting enough to write about, but i'm sure there are people who have boring dayjobs and sometimes just run out of stuff to read. I'll start by writing a bit about the things i spend my Psi development time on. Who knows, maybe my digital exhibitionism will get out of hand, and i'll add other categories ... Who knows ...