Comments on: ProBlogger Productivity Tip

By: Mihai

Mihai — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 07:32:28 +0000

Did this once, but with Nesscafe with Cappucino

Now I have Black Keyboard and Black Mouse :D

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By: Chris Meisenzahl

Chris Meisenzahl — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:06:08 +0000

Ouch, not good. I once saw that done w/ a Pepsi. Bad outcome. ;-(

By: edward

edward — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:48:07 +0000

ha,

had that with tea (+ sucker) sticky fingers

By: Bill McRea

Bill McRea — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:30:39 +0000

How about my wifes gravy.. Sticky keyboards forever.

By: Fly Girl

Fly Girl — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:59:23 +0000

I always wonder what people are thinking when I’m serving beverages in the cabin and the ask for a refill of coffee, holding their cup directly over their laptop. Don’t they know that’s the exact moment when turbulence is going to cause me to pour it all over them?!

By: Chrispian

Chrispian — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:28:31 +0000

How about modifying your tip to say “No food or drinks near the computer”!

By: Blaine Moore (Run to Win)

Blaine Moore (Run to Win) — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:53:02 +0000

Take all of the keys off and disassemble the keyboard. Let the circuit board dry, and throw the plastic bits in the dishwasher. Once everything is dry, reassemble, and its like new. However, given how much time that takes, you are better off just buying a new one.

By: La Lara

La Lara — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:17:20 +0000

Oh, yes, that’s also very good tip

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:04:35 +0000

Another no-no: letting a good friend tip over a glass of wine over your 2 week old Powerbook… its screen simply said: slurrrrrrrrp!
Covered by friend’s assurance, but not having my laptop for 3 (!) weeks was really sh*tty!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:14:43 +0000

Corollary:

Spend 10 dollars and have a spare keyboard in the closet.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:56:15 +0000

Cary, you can get around that by holding Alt and typing 0029.

Oh wait. Mac. Nevermind. I have no idea.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:17:06 +0000

ProBlogger Productivity Tip #2 Don't do pen tricks with your mobile phone and then accidently spin it into your coffee cup. Especially don't do it twice. Once with three week old Sony Ericsson k700i + once with brand spanking Moto Razor V3. Not being contactable to ultra needy advertsiers for a few days in each occasion is not the un-pro image a problogger desires.

By: Macsupport

Macsupport — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:50:23 +0000

Hey Darren,

Lucky you upgraded to a G5 tower and weren’t still using your PowerBook. Spilling coffee on a laptop is something you don’t want to happen.

By: Bill Hutchison

Bill Hutchison — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:47:23 +0000

The only thing that I would add to that is especially don’t do it on a laptop. I had one friend who put glad wrap over her keyboard because she did it so often.

We have a policy in my office that only closed drinking containers are allowed. It helps…

By: Mariano

Mariano — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:42:01 +0000

And now you tell me!

By: Grant Griffiths

Grant Griffiths — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:36:25 +0000

Did that about 2 weeks ago. I was lucky, I was able to open the keyboard on the iBook and was able to wipe it all up. No problems since.

By: Cary

Cary — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:26:11 +0000

Too funny…my wife spilled sparkling water into my iBook a few months back, and when all was said and done (letting it dry out for over a week!) the whole thing still works, with one exception – the “)” key no longer functions.

You can tell when I’m writing from my iBook because I can’t make a standard smiley face :)

The “super-smiley” face gives it away…

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:14:50 +0000

Darren, you must still be on vacation mode :-)

By: brent

brent — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:10:55 +0000

where is the coffee covered keyboard picture?

by the way you can recycle your old keyboards, I cut the cord off of my last one and gave it to my 7 month old daughter to play with, she loves it.