james holden

Some time ago, a friend of mine at spilled Coke into his expensive Logitech DiNovo wireless keyboard. It didn’t do it much good.

Since then, I found out that you can put keyboards in the dishwasher to remove crud and grime and - spilt Coke. With nothing to lose, he volunteered his keyboard for the treatment.

After taking all the screws out of the back, the keyboard splits into two. All the bluetooth electronics is conveniently in the back of the keyboard, with a ribbon cable connecting the two. I just washed the top part with the keys. A bit more research revealed that standard dishwasher detergent was quite OK to use (I used half a ‘Glist 3 In 1 Plus’ tablet). I can’t see any reason why the chemicals in the tablet would harm anything in the keyboard.

So in it went. It’s nearly finished the rinse stage and I’ll remove it before the drying stage stars because I think it’ll get too hot. Lots of shaking and a few days in the airing cupboard is the next stage.

The crazy frog is fantastic. What? Yes, you heard it right. The crazy frog is fantastic.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months, you’ll have come across the crazy frog, possibly the most irritating ringtune ever. So why do I think the crazy frog is fantastic when everyone else is being driven to distraction? It’s a matter of marketing and the lowest common denominator. Think about it - the crazy frog advert airs on prime-time TV. That’s not cheap. They must be raking it it to pay for that kind of exposure. I would have never in a million years thought of a money making stunt like the frog - I just don’t have that kind of idea of what the general public will spend money on. Clearly I’m wrong.

Not wanting to miss out of making easy money of the masses, I’m currently open to suggestions on how to do it. Horoscopes? Sports results? Reality TV? Good old porn?

My goodness, has it really been that long since I last posted? Bah, I’m crap. Things have been a bit busy over the last few weeks - I swear I’m going to write a book on what could possibly go wrong when trying to move house. We’re alledgedly exchanging contracts next week, but that’s four days off so who knows what might go wrong between now and then.

On another note, a guy I’d never heard off from a Brooklyn college wrote a pretty good opinion piece on religious zealots that’s attracted quite a bit of attention from the US media. Thumbs up to the guy, it’s a well reasoned and sensible bit of writing.