All in all I'm pretty happy with my wireless keyboard and mouse setup here at home. It helps keeping the desk uncluttered and particularily the mouse is noticably more ergonomically to use without a cable because I can enclose it entirely and rest my fingertips on the tablesurface and thus reduce tension.

And Apple also really solved the integration into the OS nicely with easily accessible meters of the battery strength. Although until now (perhaps 10.4.3 has changed that) I'd have to HUP the blued process every week or so after waking up the machine in order to get the mouse going again or (equally rarely) had to fight off unwanted repeats of singlllllllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee kkkkkkkkeeeeeeeeeeeeeestrokes I was a happy camper.

Until today, when I got a warning, that the battery levels in the mouse were low. First a discreet blinking in the menu bar and then an explicit dialog box. Thanks, that's nice. A check showed that only two out of the five level indicators were active so I duly made an entry in my GTD todo list to get some new batteries.

Yeah, well, and ten minutes later the mouse died.

On another note: it's not that I've all of a sudden got more free time to blog this kind of trite stuff - I simply can't be bothered to do anything more productive these days... Bear with me, if you will. If the past is anything of an indicator, I'll be back to "useful" by... uhm... spring?!