chuma.org

my IR transceiver only uses pins 1-5 on an RS-232 DB9. Good thing I bought 6 conductor cable.

Basement renovation is in full swing at our house. Strange, slightly dirty people have been invading our basement three times a week and forcing our cats to take refuge. Seriously though, Sandy’s dad and his hired man / our friend Garth started working on our basement last week. So far the progress has been great, […]

File system corruption, that is. I boned my camera’s memory card this morning and lost 60 photos that I’d taken, including one of our house that I was going to e-mail to my sister and one really cool one of Lake Ontario that I took this morning on the train. I could only recover four […]

Which UI engineer at Microsoft thought that mapping Backspace to the ‘Back’ browser function in IE was a good idea? When you think you’re typing in a text field, but you’re not, and suddenly you’re not on the page you thing you are, that’s bad. Argh. Bonus points for someone who can tell me how […]

Holy crap, we were gone for a while. Now we’re back. Schweet. So, you’re probably wondering, what the heck happened? Well here’s the short story: chuma.org was hosted by my friend, Stan, because he was really nice back when I had no job and no webspace. Well, around the end of the year, the following […]