As the blurb on the right-hand side of the blog site says, I am a self-confessed IT geek and through my geek-world, I know of a chap called Scott Hanselman who works for the mighty Microsoft. Anyway, he made a free website/computer-application called ‘Baby-Smash’ for his kids and released it into the wild, and it is pretty much as it sounds…babies smash on computers for fun.
So, as I started saying, the program allows for babies to whack keys on the keyboard and symbol appears on the screen in bright, funky colours. Fantastic, if you don’t mind your keyboard taking a pounding.
Anyway, Claire had Jack on her lap, whilst checking her emails on her laptop in the lounge at the table. Jack was happily banging away at the table-top with the flats of his hands, when the Baby-Smash website popped into my head. The application soon installed (in no time at all) and within seconds, Jack had his slobbery mits all over the keyboard playing Baby-Smash, much to Claire’s delight.
Jack managed (somehow…!) to press the exact key combination (using both hands, I muse point out) that was needed to rotate the entire the screen on the laptop by 90° counter-clockwise!! By some sheer fluke of time, Jack’s milk was now warmed to perfection and I decided that he ‘needed’ his milk that second, so I took Jack and the milk to go feed him and left Claire with a 90°-neck, matching the screen’s appearance.
Of course, she asked like any other normal person, about how to rotate the screen back to normal. And, as I was in the middle of something, I only had time to stand up, and lift the laptop onto it’s side making the screen correct but the laptop now perpendicular to the table!!
Oh, how we laughed. No, seriously, we [all] laughed as though it was really funny, but of course it wasn’t really.
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