The extent of human ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. Nor does the extent of English language misspellings.

(Cheers, Damian!)

Don’t get me wrong — I’ve done some truly stupid stuff in the course of my amateur DIY efforts around the house. Things that would make my father cringe (hi, Dad!) if he were aware of them. But thankfully (and lucky for McBec) I’ve never done anything quite as dumb as this.

A man who tried to use a gun to install a satellite television system ended up shooting his wife dead by accident.

Ronald Long tried to make a hole in the exterior wall of his house in Missouri, US, to install the dish for the system.

After several unsuccessful attempts, he got a .22-calibre handgun and blasted two holes in the wall.

The second bullet hit his wife, Patsy, in the chest, fatally wounding her.

I bought a Mighty Mouse for my Mac laptop about six months ago. I am positively in love with the thing and miss it immensely whenever I am forced to use a standard mouse with those unwieldy scroll wheels. But one downside of the Mighty Mouse is the scroll wheel’s tendency to get clogged up with grit and scroll all jagged-like. Apple’s official cleaning advice is useless and doesn’t fix the problem, and the mouse has been designed so that disassembly is discouraged.

So this morning, armed with a knife, a screwdriver, some cotton buds, glue, and this website, I hacked my Mighty Mouse open and fixed the bloody thing. And despite its new slightly-chopped-up appearance it now works beautifully.

Precision Apple engineering