So I’ve been slaving away at upgrading my Mac to 10.5 Leopard. I had this silly notion to backup everything and start with a clean install. Now I’m trying to get everything back to where it needs to be, including my sanity. I’ve also made a few stupid mistakes during the whole process, like accidentally deleting most of my [backup] music collection…

I’ve also been having a great time reinstalling software. I use this program called DoubleCommand to reassign the extra “enter” key to act like a forward delete because I could never get used to “function-backspace” to do the same thing. There is a real danger in reassigning keys on your keyboard–you get used to it, and when you are on other keyboards on other computers, you make mistakes. Imagine: earlier today I kept hitting this enter key expecting it to delete when instead it would submit a form or start a new line. Dumb.

I couldn’t remember what that utility was called, so I searched for it, and found this hilarious forum thread. Some guy had a broken space bar (on his kids’ computer) and wanted to reassign some other key to act as the space rather than buy a new keyboard. While some suggested key remapping programs like DoubleCommand, others severely chided this guy for potentially ruining his children’s future typing ability and thus education, career, etc.