Copy and... oops

[pne]

I have two computers on my desk at work right now: a new, fast one with more memory (which I sorely needed for a program I'm using these days) and my older one. The old one is running pretty much only my email client.

Twice today I've caught myself trying to use copy-and-paste to transfer data from one computer to the other: once to paste a URL from an email message into a browser, and once the other way around (URL from browser location bar into an email message).

I partly blame the fact that I have multiple desktops on the old machine and the email client and browser "live" on different desktops, so copy-switch desktop-paste is not an uncommon thing there. Only in this case, "switch desktop" was not "Alt+2" but "roll chair over 50 cm to the left", and Ctrl+V pasted some random stuff...

Comments

[pthalo]

Just wait until you try to copy an URL from a piece of paper onto the computer with ctrl c

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

*lol*

[tungol.livejournal.com]

What always drives me crazy is switching between control-C/control-V on windows computers and apple-C/apple-V on Macs. I'm always getting them muddled. And I always want to type diacritics on windows computers with the option key like you can on Macs.

The other day I said I needed to delete (instead of erase) something from my whiteboard.

[schnurble.livejournal.com]

I have a PC and a Thinkpad at work. I'm copying things like this:
Ctrl-C from source, Ctrl-V to StickyNote, send StickyNote to other computer, Ctrl-C from StickyNote, Ctrl-V to destination

(There're newer versions of StickyNote available, but they aren't free anymore)