I posted on twitter two days ago that I’ve never used, or even owned, a dual-layer dvdr disc. This is on my mind because I’m going to have to start using them in the near future, expanding my DVD authoring skills.

As I explained, I’ve never needed a DL DVDr. I’ve always bought the biggest USB drives I could find, and I use a media center PC to play movies, not a DVD player. This means I’ve never needed to burn 8GB on a disc, I could just throw it on a thumb drive, and I could play videos off the thumb drive on my television just fine.

However, looking at these thumb drives, I’m reminded of a rule of thumb, especially in regards to technology: Early adopters get screwed.

Every USB keyboard, that is. I’ve just had two keyboards fail in very close proximity. True, one was a second-hand keyboard, and one was the cheapest one I could find (and I also spilled pop on it). Add that to my first USB keyboard failing last year, and I’m feeling a little rejected.

I just plugged in my old PS/2 keyboard, which is the keyboard I started really writing with. Just typing on it now, it takes a really hard press to use, I don’t know how I used it so much. I was all excited about going back to my old keyboard, but I can barely use it. Wow. Technology, huh? Oh well, I do most of my writing on me eee 901 anyway (which I switched to and am writing this post on now).

Lark

A while ago I posted my first impressions of the Zoom H4, but they were only first impressions and I don’t know how much weight they would hold with most people. Well, I did some thinking, did some tests, and I’ve taken that previous post and reinforced it with some experience.