I have been silenced. Or rather, I silenced myself. I was trying to order a pizza the other night at the hotel in Alexandria (Virginia, not Egypt) and I managed to dump an open 24-oz Diet Pepsi bottle right into the laptop keyboard. This is not recommended, do not try it at home.
Anyway, it kept running for about two seconds and the screen went blank.
As far as I know, it's toast. I haven't been able to get it running since.
Time for a new travel box, I guess.
That sounds like something I would do. Fortunately, all the keyboards I've killed with Mountain Dew have all been desktop keyboards.
I think my laptop was a Coke fan and simply blew up when I fed it Pepsi :)