Clackety-Clack

A slightly meta post tonight, as it's about the keyboard I'm typing it on: a 60% mechanical key job that I took delivery of this afternoon. It's a very solidly built little unit that stays reassuringly put on the desk surface. As with pretty much all general purpose keyboards these days though, the default modifier key layout is Windows biassed. I've remapped the key's functions, but now need some replacement Mac keycaps to satisfy my OCD and stop me cursing every time I look down at the bottom row of keys. This particular little beauty goes by the name of the Royal Kludge (!) R65: there must be a particularly heinous piece of software in use in China that generates the weirdest English names for products to sell in the West. Still, the sheer surreality of some of these monikers don't half keep one amused, don't y'know? Anyhow, even though it's always a bit strange to migrate back to a mechanical keyboard from the spongy MacBook chiclet affair, I think ultimately it's a good move to make, as it grounds one back in the real, physical world of typing, mistakes and all. And by the by, it also makes a nice noise when typing, as well!