Lifting The Lid On Computer Filth

IainMH writes "There's a story over at BBC News about how work stations contain nearly 400 times as many microbes than lavatories. Gross. 'A desk is capable of supporting 10 million bacteria and the average office contains 20,961 germs per square inch, according to research. ... By contrast, the average toilet seat contains 49 germs per square inch, the survey showed.'"

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The germs on my keyboard don't bother me...

[zaren]

I've got two kids - I'm constantly exposed to a myriad of germs. It's the solid materials IN the keyboard that get to me :p

The other day, I noticed that the spaces between my keys were getting a little dark, so I wedged a sheet of paper in between two rows to scrape out some of the grunge (computer room's in the basement, with the laundry room on the other side of the wall - too much lint dust for my tastes). I had to dig out the screwdrivers and pop off the key covers, because the paper started getting stuck trying to dig out the grunge. I had to strip off most of the keys to get the job done, because some of the grungeballs got wedged under the keys and made typing really spongey.