Spilling olive oil on the keyboard.
Pros: gives it that nice shiny look.
Cons: too many to mention really.
Sigh. Not a bad weekend really. Lovely weather, which I saw out the window as I was working. Got some nice JavaScript written and identified a few more IE CSS bugs that will need to be worked around. And a cracking episode of Doctor Who yesterday.
Very True Mood: 
morose
morose
Doctor Who was good.
Shame you were working because the weather was good.
And I probably shouldn’t ask but how did you get olive oil in your keyboard?
I was eating olives.
Now I can see how it happened. At least olives won’t fit between the keys. I’ve seen keyboards survive tea and coffee spills. I’ve seen them destroyed by colas and extended exposure to chocolate never olive oil. Do you think you can clean it or do you need a new keyboard?
I thought it was going to be okay, but being oil it has slow, penetrating powers and now some of the keys have started misbehaving badly. ‘C’ is worst, but ‘SHIFT’, ‘CTRL’ and whatever you call the Windows key are also affected and that’s really serious as typing when CTRL is stuck down is impossible.
It’s just a bog standard MS keyboard and I was thinking of buying a wireless keyboard and mouse anyway, so off to PC World I go at lunchtime.
Now, why is your monster different? It’s supposed to be based on a repeatable hash of the e-mail address so shouldn’t change.
As good a reason as any to get new toys.
No idea why my monster is different unless my e-mail address has taken on some strange quantum properties.
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