i both love and hate cordless keyboards

for instance, i love the lack of nuisance wires but i hate when the batteries go dead.

i feel stupid when that happens.

after all, wired keyboards never required me to keep feeding them with money every couple weeks or so.

i hate that.

the flexibility of grabbing the keyboard and putting it on my lap (or wherever else i feel like at any given moment) is wonderful.

and less clutter is always good.

but if i venture too far away from the cordless receiver, the typing becomes erratic.

i hate that.

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and i both love and hate those tiny USB keyboard/mouse combo receiver units.

they're often little more than an inch long, which is fantastic, but they stick out of the computer like an accident waiting to happen -- especially on laptops (or when you use them on the front USB input of your non-laptop towers).

so, if they happen to break, there goes your mouse and keyboard (and by extension, the usefulness of your entire fucking computer system and software and printer, etc.).

and they never seem to sell those USB tiny combo receiver units separately.

i hate that.

and since the cordless receivers usually work better when plugged in to the front of your computer, they also end up hogging your front (most easily accessible) USB port while using it for something that is virtually mandatory instead of transitory.

i hate that.

there are many possible cheap solutions to these drawbacks, but the greedy (and/or stupid) fuckers haven't implemented them yet.

i hate that.

hmmm... maybe i hate cordless keyboards more than i love them.

but even if they were still for sale widely, i'd probably never buy another wired keyboard.

especially since i have about twenty of the broken fuckers laying around my office somewhere.

i hate that.

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i love writing about the stuff i hate.

i hate that.

ok.

that's all for now on this cordless keyboard subject.

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