eating cucumbers without permission...

I give the Intellimouse Explorer much ♥ — which is why I have three — but after a while the scroll wheel just stops working. It wasn’t so long again that I was suffering under the yoke of a ball-mouse with only two buttons, but I could never go back. How people live with less than five buttons is quite beyond me, let alone without a wheel.

Turns out that it’s a problem ridiculously easy to “fix”: I opened one up, and it’s just gunk collecting inside the case. The wheel uses an optical sensor, so a glob of dust falling in the wrong place can block it. Mouse #2 had a hair wrapped around the axle. A bit of blowing on it (NES flashback!) and it works perfectly.

I was so happy — I can scroll! I can scroll! It’s a miracle! — that I just had to share.