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I think my best bet will be the handwriting recognition feature on my graphics tablet. It's not perfect but I can do edits. At least I can get my thoughts down more quickly than trying to type with one hand.
What got me started was Dean Barnett's post this morning about Joe Rago and his attitude about bloggers
I told Dean about my experiences as a graphic artist during the advent of computers in the publishing field. Many of my colleagues in the field refused to embrace computers and "desktop publishing", believing that amateurs would try to do their own (newsletters, business stationary, fill-in-the-blank), and ruin our business. They were right about some things, at least at first. Many people, and especially small businesses, invested in the equipment and software and began doing their own newsletters and small jobs. But as time passed, another dynamic began to take effect. Those of us who embraced the technology and understood that the computer was just a tool, just like an exacto knife or a rapidograph began doing the kind of production work we couldn't have done before. Some of the jobs were too complex, jobs that would have taken armies of graphic arts specialists to produce an effect that a computer could do in a few minutes. Instead of having less work to do, the good ones have more.
Look at the publishing business. Not only are there more books being printed there's more of everything being printed, including that huge source of published material, the Internet. Good graphic artists who have developed their computer skills have work while those who didn't have closed down their businesses.  
OK, that's just to point out that the computer, as a tool, has enhanced our professional capabilities, probably not in every profession, but I would guess in most. But if you view the computer, and its corollary technologies, as an adversary, you end up with an attitude like Joe Rago. And you may end up without a job.
In the meantime, word has come that Saddam Hussein is dead. That's going to take some time to digest.
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