When I built TopDawg, I decided I needed a new keyboard, primarily because everything on the desk is now black - except my trusty ol' white Logitech Cordless Freedom keyboard.

There was nothing wrong with it, mind you - except that it's not black.

So I snagged a really nice new-gen Microsoft Natural keyboard - only to discover that my 'dumb-ass' spell while in Office Depot had my buy a wired keyboard. No biggee - I'll just run the wire to the KVM and use the USB-PS2 adapter.

Bzzzzzt! Sorry... not gonna work. Microsoft doesn't like those things.

Crap.

So I went back and bought a wireless Microsoft natural keyboard, thinking it would be really great. And if it would work properly, it would be great. But no - my luck has this thing dropping keystrokes and not holding the signal when I press down the 'shift' or 'ctrl' keys while trying to use all the shortcuts I've grown accustomed to.

Double Crap!

So tonight I snagged a Logitech Wireless Wave Pro keyboard, hoping I'll be able to make it work. I'll mess with it this weekend.

BTW - the reason I'm so picky is because after all these years of using PCs, I still haven't developed carpal-tunnel or anything of the sort... so I must be doing something right. That, and my KVM works by hitting 'Scroll Lock' twice and selecting the number of the switch position for the machine I want to go to - I have 4 of them on this switch. So my keyboard MUST have Scroll Lock functionality. Most of the ones I've seen in trying to weed out the others haven't had the key. Hopefully, this new one will. If not - maybe I'll just take the ol' trusty white Logitech Cordless Freedom outside and rattle-can it black or something.