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Still in broken PC limbo
The homebrew LCD hack didn’t work, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. My backyard repair dude rewired and replaced one old broken set of fluorescent tubes with old working…
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Working Around Planned Obsolescence
All of the PCs I’m using at home are ones I brought over from Japan in 2006 so they are all either very well-used or broken now. My main laptop…
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Firefox bold text problem (that wasn’t actually a Firefox problem)
As the title indicates, I noticed a sudden problem today in Firefox (on Windows XP) when checking Gmail – all of the text was bold. So I fired up Chrome…
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Sunday Backup Organization
Max and mommy went to his grandparent’s house so daddy took the time to organize five years of DVD (originally all DVD-R but more recently DVD+R for Improved! Error! Correction!;…
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Max loves keys and locks
Linky, linky: The Ultimate Lock Picker Exposes Weak Military Installations, Corporate Systems Wired arranged a picking test for the best locks Medeco had to offer, and filmed the results.
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Tuk Tuk USA
From Autoblog Green: Tuk Tuk coming to American roads near you? “…vehicles are currently undergoing EPA and NHTSA testing for road-use approval, though its line of trikes is reportedly already…
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New Snakeskin Head Drum
On the way to my uni’s sports day a couple weeks ago, we stopped off at a famous temple (from the ancient “kao noi ka mae” story) where they sold…
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Broadcasting Live from Dharamasala
I haven’t used Twitter for months, but it was interesting to find the Dalai Lama’s feed. It seems genuine. UPDATE: Hi, Justin Yoshida (cbuddha). Dalai Lama (OHHDL) is now following…
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Word Macros I Have Loved and Almost Lost
I’ve recently had to convert MS Word files with tons of zenkaku English text in them to all hankaku so I could forward them to people on non-Japanese language-enabled systems.…
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facebook conundrum
I have a lot of n00b friends on Facebook, and I fully contend that Facebook is for n00bs and sissies. However, if I want to see photos and happenings of…
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Gmail themes
I’m having fun opening gmail in a browser window every time and staring into an angry supernova.
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Strange Firefox 3 Error
Version 3.0.3 to be exact. Error content: “The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.” Can anybody using…
