A few weeks ago we moved the water cooler from one room in our office to a different room. The move was made to free up space for using the first room differently.
But now when I want to get water for making coffee, I automatically go to the old room first, and when I get there I think "Argh! Why can't I remember that we've made this change?"
This reminded me of the syntax changes made to Visual Basic when VB.NET superceded VB6. While most of the syntax changes were good ideas, it doesn't make things easy for programmers who are used to doing something one way for years and suddenly have to start doing it differently. Argh!
Or when Windows 2000 Professional replaced Windows NT 4.0 Workstation on my desktop computer. In NT days, I used to lock my workstation by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL and then the W key (for "lock Workstation"). But with Windows 2000, Microsoft changed this to pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL and pressing the K key (for "locK computer"). Argh!!
Which makes me wonder sometimes what one can do to help break long-standing habits. I don't mean addictions, but simply things one gets used to doing as a result of repetitious behavior...
Still, I did manage to make coffee for myself this morning, and the extra walk around the office was probably good for me...
Use Ctrl-alt-del, Enter instead. Does the same job and the key is bigger.
Or an upturned drawing pin stuck to the 'W' key. Might be a problem if you have to write articles about the World Wide Web, though.
And the water cooler problem could be solved with a long hosepipe. Or you could cache some water for faster access using a large bottle left in the old room.
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Or an upturned drawing pin stuck to the 'W' key. Might be a problem if you have to write articles about the World Wide Web, though.
And the water cooler problem could be solved with a long hosepipe. Or you could cache some water for faster access using a large bottle left in the old room.