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Thigh-tech
In case any of you think that life as a helpdesk operative isn’t very exciting, we have an anonymous contribution this week that will make you reconsider.
“Asked by a friend why her mouse occasionally stopped working, and having tried the usual – replace the mouse, try a different USB port, and so on,” he says (don’t worry, it gets better), “I found out that her habit was to lie on the sofa and run the mouse on her thigh. “It stopped working when she wore black PVC jeans.”
Thousands of helpdesk jockeys will sleep feverishly tonight.
“If your readers have discovered similarly interesting materials on which optical mice fail, it would be a great help to the support community if we were told about them,” he says.
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