Harry's Blog

My beloved fiancée L, bless her cotton socks, has got a new job working in the Health & Safety department of a construction company. This means she is now looking over our flat as a deathtrap and my work area especially as a source of RSI related mutilation.

I’ve got one of those Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pros, I’ve had it for a few years and I love the split keyboard design. I find it very comfortable to type on. But the Health & Safety nazi says it isn’t good enough. She’s probably right, although it’s comfortable to type on the splayed design of the main alphabet keys means I do tend to hunch my shoulders in.

So I’ve been told I have to buy a regular keyboard. Now as a gamer I can’t just buy a regular £5 PC World keyboard can I? No, not really. I’m a gamer, I need to have something pointlessly cool and needlessly expensive.

And so what have I chosen? Well you can see it in the image above. This is the Saitek Eclipse keyboard and it features backlighting from some attractive blue LEDs. Yes it’s pretty pointless I suppose, but blue lights are cool aren’t they? It will also be rather handy for gaming in a darkened room – especially when I’m trying to find the flaps switch in Flight Simulator 2004 during a hairy night-time landing.

The keyboard is due to arrive tomorrow and my only concern is I didn’t check if it had any USB through-ports like my current keyboard. If not my mouse cable might not reach the back of my PC. Which means, yes you guessed it, I might have to invest in a new wireless laser mouse. Oh the horror.