I’ve been using computers since around 1982. This morning for the first time (as I can recall) I did something really stupid (as far as working with computers go). I had my delicious sugary sports drink in front of my beautiful little IBM X40 pc when I bumped the bottle and it fell, top open and nearly full of course, right onto my keyboard and dumped a good portion of its contents on and into my pc. I got the power off and let it dry as I had go to work anyway. When I got home this evening I learned how to take the keyboard off (not so difficult once I actually read the directions) and tried to clean around and under the keys. As you can probably guess by the fact I am writing this blog entry, it’s back up and working but alas the f, g, c, v and space bar keys are still quite sticky. The tiny little plastic spring-like mechanisms under the keys seem to have gotten just enough sticky stuff in them and they are basically too small to be able to take apart for cleaning. The worst is the space bar which really is irritating. I’ll have to buy a USB keyboard to use for the time being tomorrow and when I have time see if I can get a new a completely new keyboard installed. Today’s lesson being that you should not put open bottles of liquid in front of your pc… but I suppose that’s pretty obvious.