I used to find the smart tag really annoying in Visual Studio because it is such a small target to hit with the mouse. Silly me, trying to expand a smart tag with a mouse. When you highlight the tag with your mouse, it tells you that the keyboard combination of ALT + SHIFT + F10 will expand the menu. What it doesn’t tell you is that there’s a two key combination that will also expand it. I learned this one from Karen Liu of the C# IDE team who also happens to have a blog...
One thing that never gets old is when someone visits me and asks to check some email on my computer. I always smile and gracefully hand over the keyboard and watch as nothing but gibberish pours onto the screen. This totally freaked out Jeff Atwood (ok, freak may be too strong a word, but allow me some dramatic license) as he watched in disbelief as I demonstrated my ability to tap on all the wrong keys, but see the right words show up on the screen. It’s my dirty little secret—I type in Dvorak. What keeps it interesting...