Business
Preventing the old coffee-in-the-keyboard trick
A while back, I had a rather unpleasant experience with coffee leaping out of a mug and attacking the keyboard of a new Dell computer (see the string of posts beginning with The old coffee-in-the-keyboard trick).Darby Green, an entrepreneur in New Zealand, discovered the series of posts describing my soggy experiences and sent me a note suggesting a solution.
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A while back, I had a rather unpleasant experience with coffee leaping out of a mug and attacking the keyboard of a new Dell computer (see the string of posts beginning with The old coffee-in-the-keyboard trick).
Darby Green, an entrepreneur in New Zealand, discovered the series of posts describing my soggy experiences and sent me a note suggesting a solution. Here's the solution he suggested:
What do you think? Had I owned one of these coffee cup holders, the chain of events mentioned in those posts may not have happened. That would have been very nice even though I would have lost 14 days of interesting posts.
If you're interested in learning more, just visit Darby's website. Thanks, Darby!