I knew about Dvoark for some time but I have never bothered to try it before, but I was sold when I read that when using Dvorak, 70% of the keystrokes were on the home row as opposed to 32% with qwerty. Also, to improve the speed that people type, the vowels are on one side of the keyboard so that you can alternated from right and left hands when you type words with alternating vowels and constants.

I decided to jump in and add the keyboard layout for Dvoark and used http://learn.dvorak.nl/ to practice typing. I was surprised how many words that were type able with out moving your fingers off the home keys. At the end I was given a summary of how I did. In my defense, there might be a couple of minutes counted in there when I was changing the keyboard layout but I might of refreshed before I started. Regardless, either way I have ...

Tax season is approaching in the United States and like most people I am concerned about where my money will go. A few days ago the state of the union address was taking place and of course the hot topics these days are job creation and ways that united states can retain its position as the world superpower. While there has be a increase of unemployment recently, I am still very strongly against welfare hand out systems and I believe that if people cant find jobs on their own because there is a shortage, jobs need to be created that will benefit the people that are paying for them, IE the tax payers. As they say, there is always work to be done.

About 55 Years ago, Eisenhower dumped $25 Billion into creating interstate highways and this kind of investment has been paying off ever since. It created American jobs and has also benefited the people that paid for it. Because of it, our economy was strengthened and many people that would otherwise have been left out, were given opportunities they needed to get back on track.

While we still need to appropriate money into our road system, we now ...