Bluetooth Mice -Oh how much fun there is to be had

The midget sibling of the Wireless Laser 8000 I graciously dubbed best for throwing at oysters, the Microsoft Wireless Laser 5000, is even more fun. It actually came without any dongle, which was promising. Maybe it actually would run out of the box! Never fear, it was not to be -it ran fine under Boot Camp but refused to do anything involving pointers moving across the screen in OS X.

I have caved in and bought the Mighty Mouse. It's a weird device and my short thumb cannot reach the squeeze buttons, but quite frankly I don't care. It works, doesn't look like a cheap transformer bootleg toy and saves me another dongle.

Bluetooth Mice -the fun starts!

There has to be an explanation for this. The Microsoft Wireless Laser 8000, one of the few Bluetooth mice available in a non-midget size, apparently is shipped with the preposterous expectation that you only will use the supplied Bluetooth dongle.

Which is great, especially since the only reason I wanted to buy a bluetooth mouse was to get rid of the disarray of dongles in the first place! Nice one!

Some people managed some draconian ritual to get it to run, but somehow this didn't work for me. At all.

This will be great fun...