A little niggle

My mouse, OK it’s a trackball really, sits on my right hand side, but all my program menus, and the tabs for this here WordPress system, lie on the left hand side of the screen. I don’t know if other people think the same, but I would prepare to have all the most regularly used menus on my right hand side. It just seems more natural and more ergonomic. Maybe programmers could include an option which would let us decide on which side of the screen we want our menus. I also think this would be better for websites too, and have noticed that some web sites do have a right hand bias.

Stop reading, start speaking

Stop translating in your head and start speaking Italian for real with the only audio course that prompt you to speak.

As I have entitled this post, it is a really little niggle, but I wonder why nobody has considered this before. Or am I just being strange?? Back to work.

Chad

+Alex Roe is from the UK, but has lived and worked in Milan, Italy, for many years. Alex has been interviewed by the BBC on Italy issues. He tweets news and information about Italy to over 37,000 Twitter followers via @newsfromitaly on Twitter.

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