[geeks] grudging praise for a Microsoft product

[Dan Sikorski]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Yeah, I've noticed the pipeline effect too.  My most common class of 
> typo is race conditions -- the left-hand pipeline and the right-hand 
> pipeline get out of sync, so I end up with a word with all the right 
> characters in it, except that two of them (not always adjacent) are 
> transposed.  And particularly for short words, I do often find myself 
> backspacing up to a typo before my brain manages to interject "You 
> know, it'd have been quicker just to replace the one character."
My typing seems to operate in word fragments.  Shorter words are done a 
word at a time, but longer words are broken up into parts.  I often get 
these parts confused, and put the wrong ending on a word.  I also have a 
tendency to accidentally type the word is twice in a row, but i suspect 
that has more to do with the stream of thought than the actual typing.  
I also usually find it easier to replace the word when typing than fix 
the typo that is in it, unless i am fixing it while proofreading after 
typing (as opposed to fixing it while typing).

    -Dan Sikorski