In article >, says...
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>Remarkable item in today's Palo Alto [California] Daily News (Sunday, March
>6, 2005, page 10).
>
>Diana Diamond reports asking a consultant at an Apple Computer retail store's
>"Genius Bar" what was the principal repair problem with laptop Macs. "Wine,"
>was the answer. People drinking and typing, spilling on the keyboard, "which
>basically ruins the computer," requiring "almost a four-figure" repair job.
>Red wine more often than white. [I guess they'd know, wouldn't they.]
>Silicon Valley having a higher than average rate of these incidents.
>
>www.paloaltodailynews.com is the general site, though at the moment, the
>site warns that most links are temporarily down, and I could not get to an
>online version of the text.
>
>Don't drink and type.

Maybe I've just been lucky so far, but the biggest problem that I have
experienced when mixing wine and computers is what I write, as all of the wine
has been effectively been poured safely into me! I've now taken to doing TN's
in the word processor, and then editing it (if I can make sense of it,
especially near the end of the notes) before I post it.

Hunt