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Bob's remarks about schoolchildren treating PC's and laptops with less than proper care and attention reminded me of a colleague at a previous employer who was the proud recipient of one of the first laptops supplied by our employer. It looked very smart with its light grey keyboard and case. After a few months of use in his office and out on the road, the keyboard was rather grubby.
One Friday evening when my colleague was out shopping with his good lady, their 7 year old daughter thought she would please her Daddy by cleaning up his computer. When she saw the grubby marks on the light grey keys, she proceeded to try and clean them up. Not having much success with a damp cloth, she then prised them all off and washed them in a bowl at the kitchen sink.
When my colleague and his wife got back home...……...
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"You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time towards the open sea. It goes. That's all." Bernard Moitessier.
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