{"id":855,"date":"2009-03-03T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T11:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2009-03-31T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T08:18:06","slug":"microsoft-natural-ergonomic-keyboard-4000-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/microsoft-natural-ergonomic-keyboard-4000-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (UK)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I looked around for quite a while to try to buy something non-Microsoft branded because I didn’t want to “feed the hand that bites us<\/a>” but at the end of the day one has to be a bit pragmatic?<\/p>\n

I highly recommend this keyboard – Everyone should upgrade from a standard keyboard because it’s not all that expensive and risking RSI is stupid (especially as a software developer I’m attached to my keyboard for more than 10 hours a day).<\/p>\n\n\n
\nThis is my list in order of importance when it comes to a happy computing experience (I could go on extensively about each point but won’t):\n<\/td>\n\n\"rsi\"\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
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  1. A machine with decent performance – the machine should always “think” faster than you?<\/li>\n
  2. Lighting fast internet connection – should be faster to Google something than disturb your co-worker to ask them?<\/li>\n
  3. Software freedom – should be able to choose your own tools.<\/li>\n
  4. Screen size – should have enough screen real estate to prevent the overhead of unnecessary window switching.<\/li>\n
  5. Comfortable keyboard and mouse – should try to prevent future RSI problems.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [asa tomButton]B000B9RYG8[\/asa] I looked around for quite a while to try to buy something non-Microsoft branded because I didn’t want to “feed the hand that bites us” but at the end of the day one has to be a bit pragmatic? I highly recommend this keyboard – Everyone should upgrade from a standard keyboard because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,30,76],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toy","tag-computing","tag-microsoft","tag-toy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}