Mouse Woes

So, I thought I’d try a new mouse, because I was tired of the one i was currently using, it was nice, but it’s non-optical and I was getting tired of cleaning it so often. Anyway, I broke down and bought a new Microsoft mouse. Thinking my disdain for microsoft surely didn’t have to extend to their (presumably 3rd party) hardware section. Well, The motion wasn’t great at first, and I figured I could just get use to it, like maybe it was just me, and this wasn’t really bad just different. I did get used to it, although I still wasn’t able to zoom across the screen and hit a small icon for example.

After a couple days my wrist started hurting when I used it, then a couple more days it started hurting all the time. Call me slow to learn, but I still liked the placement of the wheel, and the mouse is expensive and I couldn’t return it; I stuck with it. Eventually though, I gave up and went back to my “old mouse”:http://kensington.com/html/1144.html. God it was like a breath of fresh air, zooming across the screen with kensington’s user-defined-curve acceleration. Anyway.

It should be said at this point that at work we have some microsoft mice, and they hurt my wrist, I didn’t think much of it because the one I bought was so different. Lesson to Microsoft, ergonomics matter.