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.