{"id":654,"date":"2006-08-17T17:13:19","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2006-08-17T17:13:19","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T17:13:19","slug":"the_campaign_against_caps_lock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/17\/the_campaign_against_caps_lock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Campaign Against CAPS LOCK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proving yet again that people can get their knickers in a knot over the silliest things (and that the Internet enables them to share their pet peeves with a far vaster audience than they probably deserve), I see that a guy named Pieter Hintjens has launched a campaign<\/a> to rid the world’s keyboards of that pesky CAPS LOCK key. From his blog manifesto:<\/p>\n

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The CAPS key is an abomination. We all know that. It’s a huge key, stuck right there where the Ctrl used to be, and as far as I know, it’s only used by 419 scammers and Fortran programmers.
\nNow, I can understand that the keyboard producers of the world don’t really appreciate the problem. For them, one key is as good as another, and no-one’s complained, so why change a perfectly good model?<\/p>\n

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Obviously the keyboard producers have been so indoctrinated that they don’t even inspect their own products any longer. Listen, dudes: no-one wants that crummy CAPS key. It’s history. It dates back to the times when bold meant going back and typing the same text twice.<\/p>\n

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And so I have launched CAPSoff, a campaign to change the world, one key at a time. We’re going to start with the CAPS LOCK key, which is fat and useless and has no friends, so should be an easy target. Maybe after that we can gang up on the SysRq key.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, okay. Now, I’m no fan of the CAPS LOCK key, or of any button on my PC really, except the bright red one marked “Do not push,” but this is the height of self-absorbed frivolity as far as I’m concerned. A campaign to change the world one key at a time? Good lord, why not devote that energy to something that actually matters, like getting real sugar back into Coca-Cola instead of that damned corn syrup?<\/p>\n

But maybe this isn’t really about changing anything. Maybe this is simply about is getting some attention. And he’s already accomplished that<\/a>, hasn’t he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proving yet again that people can get their knickers in a knot over the silliest things (and that the Internet enables them to share their pet peeves with a far vaster audience than they probably deserve), I see that a guy named Pieter Hintjens has launched a campaign to rid the world’s keyboards of that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}