Pior: I use software to make my caps lock do that, so I wouldn't call it stupid at all! Caps is a fucking useless key, and I've toyed around with just setting it to run scripts etc..., since I don't even use it for its intended purpose anyway
You can use www.autohotkey.com for keyboard rebinding. You can have keys send macros like ctrl+shift+n, followed by enter etc. I've used it for a variety of things even though I'm not much of a scripter. If you are interested in half-qwerty typing, autohotkey has a script for that too…