{"id":818,"date":"2008-05-09T14:56:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T19:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=818"},"modified":"2008-05-09T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T19:56:21","slug":"of-cleaning-keyboards-and-virii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/09\/of-cleaning-keyboards-and-virii","title":{"rendered":"Of cleaning keyboards and virii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a tiny fit of paranoia, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-13577_3-9940042-36.html\">Norovirus has decided to pay a visit to the Moscone<\/a> this week, I decided that I needed to clean my keyboard on the Macbook.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already been following best practices of washing ones hands before eating with them (say bread at a restaurant even). You learn this stuff as a kid, but somewhere in-between growing up, and finding a girlfriend, you decide to share over cleanliness. Anyway, the habit has been back for a while. This largely after looking at toilets in a many a men&#8217;s wash room, where I notice that a lot tend to not wash their hands!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, to the point. <a href=\"http:\/\/jan.prima.de\/~jan\/plok\/archives\/48-Keyboard-Cleaner.html\">Keyboard Cleaner<\/a>. Tiny application that locks everything up, allows you to clean your keyboard and trackpad, and then with the magic Command+Q only will the application exit. 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Google I\/O sold out in 59 minutes and Apple's WWDC sold out in under 10 hours. They're both held at the Moscone Center and I guess the caps for attendance is usually set at about 4,000-5,000\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2658,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/02\/28\/emagine-mini-wireless-keyboard","url_meta":{"origin":818,"position":1},"title":"EMAGINE mini wireless keyboard","date":"28\/2\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I was at the launch of EMAGINE yesterday, and all of us walked away with a door gift: an EMAGINE mini wireless keyboard. \u00a0 When I first saw it I thought it would be a Bluetooth wireless keyboard (potentially handy for a tablet). 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I Google'ed and since it took me a few minutes (slow night?), I came up with this: I \u00ef\u00a3\u00bf\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3590,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2020\/05\/03\/my-standard-operating-procedures-sops-during-the-time-of-the-coronavirus-covid-19","url_meta":{"origin":818,"position":3},"title":"My Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) During The Time of the Coronavirus (COVID-19)","date":"3\/5\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"These are just my Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and don't necessarily represent any professional advice. I do believe life has to go back to as normal as possible, because we are going to have this issue for several years. This is what I think will work for me. 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Just installed Ubuntu (daily ISO) on the iMac DV SE. It all just works. 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