One of my passions is biblical creation. Lately, I’ve been in a bedtime reading pattern of Creation Magazine, and then surfing Creation.com for random reading material to grow my grey matter, so to speak. I came across this quote tonight in a discussion thread about applying DNA’s compression techniques to our own computer compression algorithms…
GOG.com Shutting Down…Or not! (Update 2)
I am saddened to have to report that GOG.com’s front page has been changed to reflect a note that they are shutting down.
Beware insane customs brokerage fees for shipments entering Canada
I ordered an item online, from a shop in California, with a value of approx. $250. Shipping was something like $20 via FedEx. Okay, I ordered it. I got the item, was very satisfied. A few weeks later I get a customs charge of $90, 35% of the item price!
Acer Liquid E Review
For about 5 years now I’ve been using an old school Motorola V551 flip-phone. It worked as a phone, took a surprising amount of abuse, and didn’t do much else and didn’t do anything with any kind of style. So, I upgraded to the Acer Liquid E and I’ve been playing around with it for about a week now.
Alcohol-based hand sanitizer: Miracle cleanser!
Ever since the SARS scare, hand sanitizers have been popular and the alcohol-based ones are actually stellar cleansers for smaller things!
Fixing your car key fobs with a knife, scissors, elastic, paper and super glue!
Update 2014-12-03: I have a new, better, simpler fix for this. Earlier this year the original solution I had stopped working. The problem is the electrical contacts (little circular pads for each button on the inside of the fob) were slowly disintegrating. You can tell because the black part is starting to wear through. While…
Super Glue
I often find myself using super glues to fix delicate things. I often think I can fix a circuit board, like say my car key fob, by faking soldering by using super glue to hold the metal contacts together. It’s not necessarily always successful. Everyone knows Krazy-brand glue and everyone also knows it’s pretty cheap stuff. It doesn’t really live up to its promises. So I googled around and I found some more options.
Dealing with Rogers Sales Department?
Dealing with Rogers Sales? Leverage. Maintain some form of leverage when dealing with Rogers. This is a brief history of my recent dealings with the Rogers Sales Department.
Fix for Firefox Freezing
Firefox has long had an issue with freezing/hitching. Here’s the fix: Go to about:config, search for browser.sessionstore.interval and set it higher than its default (10000). The units are milliseconds (divide by 1000 to get seconds). I prefer to set it to 60000 or greater.
Pando Media Booster settings? Check your Control Panel.
Stuck using Pando Media Booster to download some software? Don’t worry, you can uninstall it after it’s done. And if you need to change its settings, go to your Control Panel and it should be there. You’ll be able to change its max upload speed and whether or not it launches when windows starts. While Pando Media Booster is ill-conceived software and quite suspicious, it doesn’t appear to be malware. Once you’re done with it, throw it away.