for my reference…
my IR transceiver only uses pins 1-5 on an RS-232 DB9. Good thing I bought 6 conductor cable.
reno-rama
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, […]
Corruption sucks
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 […]
I just want to know one thing.
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 […]
we is back, y’all
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 […]
Why must everything I love to watch be cancelled?
“Dead Like Me” Gets Killed – Oh Crap! Sandy’s going to be super-pissed about this when she wakes up.
Rogers is going to get coal from me.
Die. Die die die die die. Rogers ‘new’ E-mail to SMS ‘service’ is the biggest piece of utter garbage I have ever seen. I’m going to say it. Fuck Rogers. There. I said it. Right before Christmas and all. Well, after 10 minutes of Google searching and an hour or so of coding, I worked […]
So glad I take the GO Train now.
CBC Toronto – TTC to put televisions in subway cars – they had better come up with a damn good way of preventing people from disabling them. I think it’s kind of sad that the TTC has to resort to further blasting passengers with ads in order to get cash. The walls and floors of […]
Things I did not know until 10 minutes ago
Kwanzaa was invented by some guy in California in 1966. Windows XP has a ‘scroll lock’ feature where you just have to click a scrollbar once and move your mouse up and down. Clicking again stops scrolling. IMHO most people would find this highly annoying. Christmas is in just a few short days… I still […]
