Keyboard layouts...

Here they only sell laptops with UK layout. Like the US layout I've grown accustomed to, but with subtle, thus annoying differences (reversed @ and ", to name one). I've tried it all - ordering a US keyboard for the laptop itself - possible but prohibitively expensive. Getting a external USB keyboard with UK layout, and then get used to using UK. Got two of them, but they have those small changes - like Ins/Del Home/End Pup/Pdn is laid out vertical instead of horizontal which you never get used to.

Now I simply always use US layout, whatever the actual layout is, don't look and hammer away. Works as long as I don't look.

Hi Norm; this is somewhat off-topic: whom is your first quotation from? Is it from Leslie Lamport also, or from someone else?

The first quotation? You mean "The thing about digital technology..."? That's just the abstract for this essay. I think I made it up, but I suppose it could be a subconscious recollection of someone else's quotation.

Ah. Well, I loved it so I wanted an accurate attribution before quoting it myself, but because of the formatting I wasn’t sure whether your Lamport attribution applied to it or only to “the other quote,” and Google found it only in your entry and syndicated copies of your entry. From that confusion arose my question. Thanks.