Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Some of the LEGO I have in the house must be 30 years old. It's as good as the day it was first unwrapped. I have to admit to being disappointed when one of my two RCXes stopped responding to the IR tower. I was pleased the other one was ...
Posted in Breaktime, Broken, Life | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
BrickOS was an integral part of some work I did many years ago and I've been trying to dig the code up recently. It seems as though it fell out of the Ubuntu repositories some time ago (in as legos before the name change), so I'm currently installing the source ...
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Friday, March 4th, 2011
Living in Malaysia, I've come to accept a little bit of 'post tax'. I receive somewhere around 4 out of 5 items mailed unrecorded to me from overseas. I don't mind the occasional credit card going astray - it never seems to result in fraudulent transactions. Toys and clothes for ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Sometime around 3pm the Internet connection died. The phone is also dead (no dialtone). There's no sign of my friendly local technicians at the local switchbox, so perhaps it's not just this area. Then again, perhaps nobody knows. I tried to fill in a "Contact Us" form at www.tm.com.my but ...
Posted in Bolehtics, Broadband, Broken, Life | No Comments »
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
When did that happen? In a demo that reminded me of days working in large software houses, I showed my brother-in-law how he could add Google to his IE9 search engine list by just going to Google's homepage and right-clicking the search engine drop-down list for the "Add Google Search..." ...
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