Comment Keyboard isn't the only ergonomic factor (Score 1) 264
When I first started working on a job at Hewlett-Packard, I spoke to their 'ergonomic specialist' (no joke) about the pain I was experiencing in my neck, wrists, and right shoulder, and she checked out my workstation. Sure enough, it sucked. She gave me a cheap but W-I-D-E keyboard drawer that basically fit in my lap and a small mouse pad that sat in the drawer directly to the right of the keyboard. Then she made sure that the keyboard was as flat as it could be to cut down on the wrist angle. More angle == more pain. The basic idea is that you position your stuff to keep a right angle in your knee, and a right angle in your elbow, and your neck straight, and avoid completely shitty chairs. I have long arms, so I can't deal with armrests at all. I've been happy ever since, even with tens of 16-hour hacking days in a row, and my only exotic peice of ergo equipment is a (sadly, discontinued) super-wide rubbermaid keyboard drawer.