Monday, February 5, 2007

moousing correctly

Some chick at work was having trouble with her interweb page today and called me to say it wasn’t working. Actually I was on my email so I didn’t answer, but my assistant Barry went to help her. At first he thought that someone had been hackering her homepages because she said when she clicked the hotlink that she got taken to a wrong page about President Bush instead of a map. However when Barry investigated, it turned out it was a mousing problem. She had been mousing wrong and so Barry showed her how to control the mouse when she clicked and then hot link worked.
The moral of this story is that sometimes it isn’t hackers, sometimes it is just sloppy mousing. Because of this I am recommending to my boss that we do some training on mousing properly to stop wild clicking. Now that we have two-button mouses (I checked at work and some people already have the new two-button ones in their offices—how cool is that!!) we could do a seminar on correct clicking and how to use the right button. There is actually a really cool homepage that shows you how to hold and use the mouse correctly and so I am gonna start letting people know about this resource. I think people would get a kick out of it, especially if we have mini-muffins.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i like muffins and this one looks particularly tasty.