It's December. It's Cold.

You've seen Maple (Syrup), the brown bear. Meet her polar bear "cousin." Maple (Sugar), the polar bear who is called Hayley.




Eventually I will get their black bear "cousin," Molasses.

How very odd

Go Firefox?

Somewhat Maple Tea

Comfy cupholder.

Hey, it's November 4

Weather: Rain/Cloudy
Time in line: 2 hours, 13 minutes
Episodes of "30 Rock" watched on the iPod while waiting in line: 5
Estimated number of people I have seen today: 250
Cups of Starbucks gotten for free due to promotion: 2

copying files to a microSD card

You copy a bunch of files to the microSD card and you get an error message saying, "The directory or file cannot be created."

I assume you copied only 116 files at this point. I also assume you copied it directly onto the root directory of the microSD.

The solution to this is simple.

Create a folder in the microSD, copy the files into that folder.

Done.

Yeah, Right, Whatever.

At least shipping is free.

iPod Center Button Woes

The rubber underneath the center button shifted again and I had to open and realign it again. I decided to put a bit of glue on it. A few clicks later it happened again. So I decided to put more glue.

Stuck iPod Center Button

I noticed the iPod's center button was stuck. It was "sunk" into the clickwheel. It didn't make a click but the button worked if I pushed down hard. That was unacceptable and my thumbs were hurting. I was a concerned as the 5.5G iPod Video was woefully out of warranty and do not want to shell out ~$20-75 for a repair. The screen, battery, hard drive, clickwheel were perfectly fine. Just that damn single center button.

It all had to do with a misaligned piece of rubber. Now I have an excuse to pry open the iPod.



1. Open the iPod and expose underneath the clickwheel
2. Move the little rubber piece to the center of the metal contact
3. Put everything back to normal and close iPod



The center button works fine now. The process took less than 10 minutes.

Well, I guess don't have to choose between a 120 GB 6G iPod Classic, 16 GB 4G iPod Nano, or 16 GB 2G iPod Touch just yet. Until the LCD or hard disk fails...



Keep on, Maple.

Mice, Mouses, and Pointing Devices

Microsoft Wheelmouse (Ball)
Grudgingly still works and in perfect condition. Rollers need to be cleaned. PS/2 only.
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3 (Optical)
LMB doubleclicks on a click.
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 4 (Optical)
LMB & RMB often doesn't register a click and must be pressed hard.
Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 (Laser)
Exterior is literally falling apart. Rubber of mousewheel flaking off.
Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 (Laser)
The normally loose mousewheel gets stiff.





Time to clean up, Maple.

Staring at the table

Though they're seven years apart, but still.

Getting stuff out of Notepad

Bear with me again.

Slushie is a relatively new polar bear. Normally he would spend time with the other three bears but they've been gone for months. Slushie is bored. Klondike is lazily lying on the bed. Little Klondike and Black Bear are playing video games. Maple for some reason is drinking tea with Sugar Maple. So what is Slushie to do?

It's Maple (Again)

Downloading Observation

Oh no, I need my Windows validated so can get the DirectX run time files.



or I can just go here and download the whole thing without validation


Sure, the web install might save time and megabytes, but whatever.

June Post

Posting to maintain at least one post per month. There. What's with those two dogs? One doesn't like the other. Yet that one will follow that dog.

Another Firefox Observation

Firefox 2.0.0.14
Logon Date: 4/22/2008 7:48 PM
It is now: 5/1/2008 9:45 PM

Look at it go.

An April Post

It's the 22nd. Finally it's over. Oh yeah, there's the PA Democratic primary that hasn't ended at the time of typing.

Ta ta.

Firefox Quickies

chrome.css:
.tabs-closebutton-box {
display: none !important;
}

Change Cache Directory ============================
new --> string
browser.cache.disk.parent_directory --> E:\Temp...

Access Local Files ================================
new--> boolean
security.checkloaduri --> false

Inspirality

Just a made up world.

Movie Monday X

No Country for Old Men

2007

A Firefox Observation

Windows hasn't technically restarted since 2/20/2008 11:57:17 PM
and Firefox has yet to be closed.

It's 3/9/2008 2:26 PM

whee.

Sometimes I feel like this... gah.

Movie Monday IX

Monty Python's Life of Brian
1979

Movie Monday VIII

Stalingrad
1993

It's saturday. Let's recap.

Day 1: Icky throat
Fever
Shivering

Day 2: Severe headache
High fever
Shivering
Vomiting
Muscle pain
Loss of appetite
Violent coughing
Difficulity sleeping

Day 3: Headache that eventually went down
Couhing with mucous

Day 4: Headache
Coughing

Day 5: Runny watery nose
Some coughing
Sinus

Day 6: Some Coughing
Minimal runny nose


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The missed Movie Monday will tacked on to another Movie Monday
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Hang in there Maple Bear

Movie Monday VII on Hold

Due to sickness, Movie Monday VII will be on hold. Perhaps Movie Monday VII on Friday will do.



Day 1: itchy throat

Night 1: Fever, shivering, coughing, muscle ache, headache

Day 2: Same as above including tiredness, loss of appitite.

I feel so sick, I wish it occured on Saturday rather than now on Monday. A test, essay, thunderstorms, how will this day get any better.

Now I'm hungry.

Movie Monday VI

An Inconvenient Truth

Movie Monday V

Der Untergang

(Downfall)

scrapalist ²

http://scrapalist.wordpress.com/



Don't know exactly what to do with it.

Movie Monday IV

Goldfinger
1964

Interstatephobia

Hey, interstatephobia doesn't exist on Google... until now

Odd Message

I took a screenshot of this a long time ago. I don't know what app this is but it is intriguing.

Movie Monday III

Sicko

imdb: 9
movies.yahoo.com: A
metacritic: 9

Movie Monday II

Good Night, and Good Luck.

imdb: 7
movies.yahoo.com: B-
metacritic: 6

Conan O'Brien - German Disco Light Show

Enjoy while you still can.

Rehash of an old entry

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Firefox 30 Day Challenge

Journal Entry: Fri Apr 1, 2005, 10:46 AM

For the 30 days of April, I am going to exclusively use Firefox. FF for everything. No trips to Windows Update for IE either. XP should be fine w/o 1 month's worth of updates. IE's proxy is set to 0.0.0.0 so I couldn't even browse from IE accidentally.

The exception to rule is certain computer labs as I have no choice but to use IE like the one I'm typing at right now, but some places I can load up my "Portable" Firefox on my USB stick. The other exception is when helping others when they are using IE.


I've been in 'hybrid mode' using both browsers in the last week of March. All of this is experimental... see how well this will turn up.

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Movie Monday I

The Simpsons Movie
imdb: 9
movies.yahoo.com: A-
metacritic: 9

Firefox Add-ons as of January 2008

Adblock Plus
Self explanatory. The plus version you subscribe to a block list so you don't have to manually update the list. You can block specific images without blocking the other images of the same website if you wish. #1 add-on for Firefox.

Download Statusbar
Nonintrusive and minimal (in mini mode) compared to the default download manager

Extended Statusbar
Miscellaneous information on the status bar such as # of images loaded, time it took for the page to load, size of page

Fast Video Download
Rip YouTube videos and other embedded files

Fasterfox
self explanatory. Some sites won't load properly so you have load it again so you have to tweak the settings if it bothers you

Favicon Picker 2
Replace / create custom favicons in bookmarks/toolbar. For example, bugmenot has an animating favicon and it's annoying to stare at in my bookmarks toolbar. So I replaced it with a static version of the icon.

Flashblock
Cuts out annoying flash, I decide whether to load the particular flash content or not. Add homestarrunner.com in the whitelist.

Image Zoom
Zoom & resize any image on the page. Nice, but I haven't a practical use for it yet.

Image-Show-Hide
Useful if you're on a dial-up or tethered cell-phone connection and just want to see the page without loading the images. Save bandwidth.

Menu Editor
Cleans up the menu bar including context menus, I used it to remove "History" and remove unnecessary menu items. You can rearrange the menu, add separators.

MIME Edit
Tells the browser what to do when encountered with a certain file type

NoScript
Blocks javascript on untrusted sites. It takes a bit of work as some sites need javascript to work (any input box in Forums, flash-based sites...) so there's the "temporary allow site..." and "add to trusted sites" options in the status bar.

Organize Status Bar
Rearrange the status bar the way you like. You can even hide items if you wish. Very useful add-on.

Paste and Go 2
Copy url, paste & go.

Stop-or-Reload Button
Combines two icons into one. It just looks nice. Though if I wanted to reload, I press F5, and if I wanted to stop, I press ESC.

Stylish
Change the look & style of a website. I made YouTube minimalistic.
To get a slim extension list for Firefox 2: go here

Tab Mix Plus
Expands functionality of tabs. Plenty of options to choose from.

Titlebar Tweaks
I use it to remove "- Mozilla Firefox" on the titlebar.

Work Offline
Works exactly like in Internet Explorer. Isn't perfect as not all sites can be viewed offline even with my cache limit set to 500 MB.

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It's your browser. Configure it the way you want it. Internet Explorer an okay browser, but it doesn't do everything listed above.