Couple of days ago my little daughter somehow managed to pour a bit of water on this keyboard! I chuckled and quickly turned off the computer; I didn’t know if the keyboard worked or not but the mouse worked. After having split open the cover I quickly let the water drain out and used a hair dryer (not mine) on it. This, however, didn’t fix whatever had gone wrong! I couldn’t read what I was typing! Numbers appeared from nowhere! Here is a sample: “th3e q6u8ick brown fox j6ump3ed ov3e th3e lazy dogs.” That wasn’t all. The <Backspace> button became super smart and whenever I pressed it (in a text editor,) it printed the date & time! The water reprogrammed it? So it did to the <Del> key as well and a few others! When using browsers, the backspace and delete keys another totally differently personality!
My next move was to search for a good keyboard. I couldn’t go out and buy a new one as it was weekend. So, with the limited expressive power of the keyboard, I browsed through websites displaying trendy keyboards. Das Keyboard caught my eye. It was super-cool, but the only person I know who can use it without a hiccup is our “Dos.”
The next day I was all set to go get a new keyboard. Knowing that this would make the already dysfunctional keyboard useless I opened it up again, this time without the slightest fear that I may break something! I ripped it from its layers of plastics. What lay in front of me was the neatly drawn circuitry on a couple of polythene sheets. I wiped the sheets with the palm of my hand, assembled everything again and connect it up. Voila! I had done it. I didn’t require an electronics engineering certificate to fix this! Everything was (all the keys were) functioning normally again.
What’s more: I even had a left over screw (“baakee iskuru”) as per Maldivian tradition of fixing things!
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it's ok for a person with a condition such as yours to have a hair dryer. as long as you dont use it to dry your hair.
I once spilled coke on my laptop. Not on purpose, of course. Few days later upon too much insisting I had to rent it out to a nice family of country ants. DOH!
i know guy who's hard-disks had a chronic and reoccuring condition of ants eating it up. he blames the porn he has on the harddiskS!
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