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BlogFour years ago I
bought a Roomba, which I used for about 8 months before the ledge sensor busted, at which point I sold it on eBay. Fast forward to a few days ago and a
refurbished Scooba deal sucked me back into the world of iRobot. My hatred of mopping and Lisa's continued disregard for the
good wives guide created a need for something to clean my hardwood floors any ways, or at least that's how I justified it. It's definitely much larger than my old Roomba, and after a full nights charge it was cleaning my kitchen floor
better than I had ever done. The "waste water" was a dark black to prove the job was done, and so far it's performed flawlessly. It's "AWARE" programming as the manual claims still seems to be the same random circle/wall follow/45 degree turns my old Roomba did, but who am I to argue with marketing acronyms. Hopefully I'll update in another 8 months that it's still working, but even if it isn't I'd pay $180 for 8 months of not having to mop.
This plagued me for over an hour today and I thought it would be helpful to make a post since a Google search yielded lots of complaints but no solutions. I did find
this work around which avoided the problem, but I suspected the video card drivers might have been the cause. After reinstalling the drivers, I was able to re-enable all the animation options the work around disabled with no problems. If you get a "Sysfader: Iexplore.exe Application Error" dialog box with something like "the memory was unable to be written" reinstalling your video drivers will solve the problem. I'm guessing sysfader.exe interacts with the video drivers in a specific way (fade effect) and causes the error to occur.
I recently discovered
OpenSearch, a search description standard similar to RSS that serves as a web site search API among other things. I'm sure it's been around for a long time, and I'm just now discovering it, but the important thing is that
IE 7 and
Firefox both support it. If you're reading this from my website, and using one of these browsers, check out the upper-right search box in your browser. There's an arrow to choose more search providers and "Atomic News" should be one of them (IE7 goes all crazy orange to let you know). Why everyone doesn't have this setup is a mystery to me. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to search a website for "Shenanigans" but had a morbid fear of clicking the "search" link on the webpage. With this feature, you can set your fears aside and stay comfortably within the browser, without clicking on any of those scary links on the webpage. Since I know everyone added my search as one of their providers, you can now find out what I think about any topic immediately as you browse the web. Don't kid yourself, you know that's what you've been dreaming of for years.
Whineyho introduced me to a movie called
Idiocracy. If you never heard of it there is a theory it was
sandbagged for the negative portrayals of it's sponsors. Despite it's non-exposure I thought it was awesome, as Whineyho predicted. I found the
movie intro for anyone foolish enough not to watch it based purely on my opinion.
After
Stavos built his new computer and
bested my 3DMark score, I learned that Philips is
phasing out plasma displays. My
50" Plasma is now heading toward end-of-life technology as the LCD display grows exponentially in popularity (and size). With my computer and tv no longer on the cutting edge, I was feeling old and obsolete. Even my useless-but-cutting-edge x64 Vista install wasn't helping. Then I found the
plasma wikipedia entry which lead me to the
plasma tv science website. Here I could drown my sorrow in the history and future of plasma displays, and get a good feeling about my TV back. The next logical step is to join the
8800 club, but so far my cheapness is winning that battle.
At the bequest of the
Morlock, I installed
ASP.NET 3.0 along with
AJAX for .NET on this server today. Thinking I had done him a great service, I told him it was ready to use to which he immediately responded with a complaint that I didn't make a database change in my comments. I told him to use the new .NET 3.0 workflow system I just installed to write up a detailed flowchart of the change request. Ten minutes later I got
this jewel in response. Clearly the best workflow diagram ever.
This morning I was greeted with
20 eBay listing notifications in my email inbox. My first reaction was "holy crap my password was stolen" followed by "what idiot doesn't change the email address after stealing an account" The answer to that is
happyforever_2010@hotmail.com. Feel free to email them, that's where all the auction payments were scheduled to go. You can also check the following IP addresses where my password was changed from: 61.170.246.7 subnet IPs: 10.11.64.249, 10.11.64.250, 10.11.64.251. It belongs to Chinanet Shanghai Province Network, Wu Xiao Li at Room 805, 61 North Si Chuan Road, Shanghai, 200085, PRC. If you're in the area, stop by and see if anyone knows about
these ebay listings. I'm sure it's a junk email account and a set of public library IP addresses, but I feel better after looking up the details.
After my excitement about 60 degree weather a few days ago, I was greeted with 74.8 degree weather today. I was so excited I sang
manamana with Lisa all day, who was so hot from the weather she had to get a
haircut. My request for a short skirt and tank top outfit was denied, but she did frolick in the new housing development with me merrily. And yes, the skirt and tank top outfit was for me.
Today was the warmest day of the year so far at 59.7°F. To celebrate, I changed the oil in my Cougar and Motorcycle, then took them both out for a spin. My neighbors were also de hibernating from winter and shook their fists at the loud punk making noise on their quiet street. I took their disapproval to mean they wanted burnouts, and obliged them with each vehicle. Satisfied, I put them both back in the barn in preparation for the
returning snow.
At the request of the
Morlock, I've added a "Your Website" field for comments. If you fill it out, your name shows up as a link to that site in the comment list. Naturally, the first thing you'll want to do is type in
http://www.zombo.com, but once you get tired of that, you can put in your real website. Apparently this interlinking of blogs makes for a lot of good search engine balley-hoo according to the Morlock, and that's good eats. I've also removed the HTML restrictions on the comments by popular demand (and since the image validator works so well), so you can post up your porn links and improve your rating even further.
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