Archive for August 24, 2006

Czech Typing lesson

    Nic’s guide to learning to type Czech:

    If you can touch type, you will already have a grasp of where the numbers are on a keyboard.  When you switch your keyboard to Czech,  the positions of numbers will be taken by the  letters in the Czech alphabet which have additional marks on them.

    Instead of

    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    0

    +    ě    š    č     ř    ž    ý     á    í    é          will  appear.

    So, based on a handy system of mnemonics,  below is a suggestion of  how these characters might be remembered. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mouse on elastic

Thursday morning.

Feeling a bit lost since returning from our Czech dream. Today my new (ebay) computer is playing up - the pointer is acting like it is attached to elastic & the virus definitions won’t update properly. This is incredibly frustrating. Like trying to thread a needle every time you need to move somewhere on the screen. And my technical helpline is not available.

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