SARS: How do you sterilize your palm or that yucky I-cafe keyboard

I like to read my palm everywhere. That includes private morning reading on the throne and evening reading at dinner.

I pretty much kept it clean by using a dry or semi-damp cloth. Now, what can I do?

What about the sticky dirty keyboards in the internet cafe. Should I try to clean it or just start wearing rubber gloves.

PS: In the particular neighborhood… all the cafes are kind of grungy. I might as well avoid them alltogether.

Thanks for the advice.

Something to think about.

geek.com/news/geeknews/2002m … 011694.htm

Your toilet seat is cleaner than your keyboard

A recent study done by Clorox aimed to find the most germ-ridden surfaces in the workplace. The surface would be a “high-touch” area, meaning it was touched frequently by workers nearly all day long. Remarkably, toilet seats were found to be one of the cleaner surfaces, but telephones and computer keyboards were found to be some of the most filthy.

There are several obvious factors at play here. The more often something is touched, the more germs it collects. On a busy work day it was found that the average employee is touching ten items per minute. Also, janitors are expected to clean toilets regularly, but are often asked not to disturb workspaces. The study found that bacteria can grow 19 to 31% a day in a workstation if nothing is done. Employees who frequently wipe down their areas with anti-bacterial products were found to reduce the bacteria count 99.9% in two days’ time.

The study was conducted in Tucson, San Francisco, New York, and Tampa. Tucson was found to have the cleanest desks, and New York was found to have the dirtiest. The researchers believe Tucson’s desert climate is not as inviting to bacteria. The most germ-ridden surface in Tucson was, in fact, the water fountain handle, demonstrating that moisture is an important factor. Clorox also speculates that in “busier” cities employees are more likely to eat in their workplace, which increases the risk of bacteria spreading.

The dirtiest areas in the workplace were telephones, but fax machines, water fountain handles, microwave door handles, and computer keyboards were not far behind in the 7,000 items sampled in the survey. Scott Harper, environmental health and safety director for Pima Community College concludes:

I don’t want to create a paranoia about touching anything, but we can go a long ways to increase awareness about the benefits of washing your hands or wiping down your desk.

  1. Keep your hands out of your mouth when you are using the keyboard

  2. Give your hands a good scrubbing when you are finished

Use alcohol and cotton balls or swabs to clean phones and keyboards.

i use a cheap perfume spray bottle filled with alcohol. just spray over the mouse and keyboard and then wipe with tissue :bulb: