Due to my heavy use of my little Apple laptop, I needed a minor repair doing on the keyboard today. I shalln't bore you with the details, suffice it to say, something had broken off that held a Shift key in place.

The folks at AppleCare, informed me that it was down to the folks at the Apple Store to fix it, as they'd last touched the keyboard, so off I popped down to Cherry Creek Mall.

As it turned out, they had the parts in the store, and so I ended up with a brand new keyboard being fitted, and a new power supply (because I mentioned the tiny crack in the power line). The new keyboard is nice, clean, fully functional, and almost glowing. The translucent nature of the iBook keyboard, means that you really notice when it's got dirt (and in my case, cat hair) underneath it. The new one looks positively surgically clean by comparison.

I estimate that there was enough cat hair and dirt under the keyboard, to make me a third cat. Not that I'm stupid enough to want more cats than I already have.

I told the Mac Genius guy, that I was going to rechristen my iBook, "Cher" because it's had so many bits of itself replaced or renewed, or operated on over the years.