Stop blaming the dog for making your Wii turn blue

For months I had been blaming my dog – not for that – for turning on my game systems when I wasn’t looking.

I figured she was sniffing around or walking by the consoles and either her nose or her happily waging tail hit one of the easy-to-press power buttons. I hadn’t seen it happen but I knew neither my dog nor gremlins were playing my Xbox 360, PS3 or my Wii. (I’d kicked the gremlins out years ago.)

To power up the Xbox 360, you simply glide your finger over the unlit ring whereas for the PS3 you glide your finger over the small icon above the ready light on top of the console. In offering these easy-to-use, sensitive-to-the-touch…