Kimberly Lazarski

Problem: <shift>-<space> causes your text to be highlighted as you type in KDE on Linux.
You've searched the KDE Keyboard & Mouse configuration center, checked all of the Global Keyboard Shortcuts and Standard Keyboard Shortcuts and cannot find any definitions for shift-space. This is driving you NUTS!
Cause: SCIM (Smart Common Input Method) is changing your input locale
Solution: use scim-setup to remove the keyboard shortcut.

Up to now all of my personal sites have been very conservative and fairly plain, with a tecchie bent. The artiest one I've had was a green-on-black theme which was very reminiscient of old 1970s/early 1980s business computers with green monochrome monitors, and I used the stereotypical "computer style" typeface that was so common in advertising at the time (and is still in use today as account numbers on bank checks).  I got a lot of great feedback at the time and am sometimes still asked to bring it back.

Now, I'm a professional and always thought it important to keep a conservative look when I bother to do a web site for myself. However, this time around I wanted something more artsy, so cute and girly that it makes you a little nauseated while saying "Oh, that's kinda cute." In fact, I named the design "nauseatingcuteness" on the back end.  I hope to have it done soon but I'm touching PHP for the first time in a couple of years (I haven't coded in 2-3 years aside from bash, powershell, and vbscript scripts) so let's hope it goes well! :) 

The plug was pulled on Geocities so the "Soy Decoder" is offline and the original author never responded to my inquiries. So, for your convenience and mine I am posting the original content from that page on here, including the URL to the original (and now defunct) site. Note: I am not the author of that site; I have just found the list *incredibly* useful in helping me not get sick!

Sorry about the formatting, I just did a copy and paste. I'll clean up the format some other time.

NoSoy Decoder (Soy Aliases)

Linux is a very powerful operating system for both the desktop and server environments and contrary to popular belief, Linux really is ready for the desktop - at least the software itself is. Unfortunately that is not the case with the documentation.