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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 to see if FF was the problem and all of the text in Chrome was in italics… These two problems together indicated a corrupted system font. If you have ever have this problem, you need to reinstall the Arial font family (TrueType). The executable installer can be found here or here.
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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!; everything important is on genuine “That’s” brand Taiyo Yuden 16x media, everything else is on TDK or SONY 8x or 16x [end historical optical media note]) backups. I must say, we are in a fairly sucklical state of backup media at this point in history. Optical media like CDs and DVDs (and presumably BluRay Disks as well) apparently degrades in a matter of a few years in extreme cases, and keeping things on a form of media (HDs) that constantly…
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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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Spark Plug Art
After having the baby, I ran out of money to complete my list of thing to do with the Kujira Crown. Since I reverted to stock tires I alleviated bottoming out problems and can hence wait on any suspension upgrades. She needs to be stripped and repainted, though, before the rust gets too bad. I don’t think of it as overly humid here (compared to Japan or even Bangkok), but paint started flaking off as I used the Kuj every day and rust started appearing in those places as well as under the paint in some spots. Additional victims to the humidity were my plugs. Behold: I can’t even believe…
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Crazy exer-ball trick
Popular Science breaks down the science of it here, but after the first couple paragraphs it just started to look like blah blah blah blah blahblahblahblah…
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Pond Scum Soup
It doesn’t sound or look appetizing, but it was actually pretty good. On Sunday we went to an outdoor market in a park downtown where many fresh produce vendors gather. It’s an excellent place to find strange new (to me anyway) fruits and veggies, and sometimes even plants for our garden. This day proved to be no exception and we found a lady selling what looked like Japanese aojiru powder (green juice powder made from barley and other healthy crap) from a bucket. Upon closer inspection the granules were too large to be aojiru and were also quite damp. The old lady didn’t really explain what it was that well…
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Democracy in Obama City
It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but homeboy gets points for pseudo-fundoshi and giant Garfield flying kick cop-out.
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DMFTW
The new Danger Mouse album is going to turn the record industry on its head – mark my words, this is the tipping point.
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aikoku
http://kimigayowachiyoniyachiyonisazare-ishinoiwaotonaritekokenomusuma.de
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Max is almost walking by himself
Although in this photo, he’s just omnomnomnom. Mommy and I sit on the floor a few feet apart and make him walk alone back and fourth, and he does that just fine… But he’s not quite comfortable walking instead of crawling yet. Friends tell me that any spare time I’ve enjoyed while the baby’s awake will no longer exist after he learns to walk.
