Posts Tagged ‘skills’

The Basics of Typing

February 7, 2009

In cyberspaces many customers are still fighting with their keyboards. Their eyes commute from keyboard to screen and from screen to keyboard, again and again, painstakingly looking for each letter they need to write down their thoughts. In doing so, their eyes enjoy a 1st class lubrification but it’d be so much besser to fully concentrate on your thinking than on a lousy piece of hardware.

 

Typing lessons for QWERTY,
the US standard 101 keyboard

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Make your life easier. Start learning typing /keyboarding today. You won’t regret it. It took me only 2 full weeks (1 hour per day) to learn the skills of typing. Then two short weeks of training later, I became Master of the Universe.

Three keyboards have no secrets for me : I can type on German, French and US keyboards very easily. It takes me only a few hours to switch from QWERTZ to AZERTY to QWERTY.

 

 

Pourquoi pas avec dix doigts ?

En fréquentant les cybercafés, j’ai pu voir comment beaucoup de gens peinent à taper sur les claviers. Le temps qu’ils tapent un mot, j’ai déjà tapé une phrase. Je les voyais qui cherchaient les lettres sur le clavier et qui regardaient ensuite l’écran histoire de vérifier si c’était bien la lettre qu’ils voulaient écrire. Bien trop pénible, tout ça.

 

Le clavier AZERTY

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Taper avec les dix doigts au clavier à l’aveugle est à la portée de tout le monde. J’ai appris à taper en deux petites semaines. A raison d’une demi-heure à une heure par jour sauf le dimanche. Au rythme de la musique. L’apprentissage se fait très vite. La vitesse de frappe s’acquiert encore plus vite.

Je vous ai trouvé une méthode efficace pour écrire sur un clavier d’ordinateur à la vitesse V. Essayez-la. Une fois que vos doigts voleront sur le clavier, vous gagnerez un temps inestimable.

 

Knit Knit

December 11, 2008

Hey, boys and girls, it’s getting cold. Windy and cold. Last month, I was rummaging through my closet looking for the thick black pullover made of genuine cashmere, so soft, so warm (and so expensive…) I put in there eight years ago. To my astonishment my garment was not tasty enough for The Moth Gourmet Restaurant.

I put it on. Quick glance at the mirror : The pullover XXL length almost down to my knees is definitely not in for this winter 2008. I had to do something.

I wish I was born a knitter. And a tailor too. Unfortunately, I am anything but that. But I decided to give a try.

First, the scissors, then the wool. In my kitchen, there were two long chopsticks best for what I want to do. Big problem : no idea how to start the reshaping of my piece of knitwear. I had to surf the internet and could find this video :

 

The Basics

 

It took me two hard days to achieve a very unusual task. I called my king of heart : ‘Guess what I am doing right now.’ ‘Knitting’. Out of the blue he was right. He was just joking because he’s never seen me knitting anything anywhere. He couldn’t believe that I conceded him a win !

I wish I could knit better. My new old knitwear doesn’t look very pretty. But it is a homemade chef-d’oeuvre. It is so soft and it keeps me warm. And I feel so wonderfully secure in it.

 

Surfing Your Brain …

October 28, 2008

… alters the internet. No, no, no. Reuters means it differently. Let me put it the Reuters’ way:

REUTERS

by Belinda Goldsmith
October 27, 2008

Is surfing the Internet altering your brain?

The Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work with a neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order.

Turn the page

 


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