Jay Lagare

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Car Is Back

By on Sunday, January 25, 2009

Finally got the car back yesterday. It had been undergoing front-end repair as well as a full-body repaint at The Wet Look after that unfortunate collision last December. And damn, does it looks good! The headlights have been replaced with new ones. Along with the fresh paint job, the car was gleaming almost looks like new. I was quite happy.

Until I discovered that they didn’t reassemble the door lock (it unlocks automagically) and the turn light (blinks rapidly) properly. And today, I noticed they missed a small dent and the bumper’s paint job wasn’t very neat along the top edge where it meets the grille. I had the door lock fixed at a nearby shop since it was quite critical. The rest can wait till I return it to The Wet Look.

UPDATE: Got the car back. They did an outstanding job fixing their mistakes so I’m somewhat mollified.

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Traffic, Traffic, Traffic

By on Saturday, January 24, 2009

In my quest to avoid working at the mentally and physically draining night shift (especially the ungodly hours between 2 to 4 A), I’ve been going to the office in the afternoon for the past week or two. I’ve noticed the horrific traffic congestion that seems to be everywhere lately. It seems that every car, jeep, bus, and truck is out there. No doubt because of the price drop on fuel. I passed by the gas station last night and E10 is at about P30 per liter. At that price, I guess people decide it’s better to drive than take public transportation. But I’m wondering if things are better once you get stuck in traffic and burn all that fuel, and time, just sitting there idling.

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Windows 7 Beta

By on Monday, January 19, 2009

My sister needed to install some medical courseware and it only runs under Windows so I took it as a chance to check out the recently released Windows 7 Beta. I had problems accessing the official site but after some searching here and there, I was finally able to procure a copy.

I installed the beta on my IBM Thinkpad X22 (it’s goodbye Kubuntu, for now). My Thinkpad only runs at 800MHz and has just 640MB and 40GB of RAM and hard disk, respectively. But it actually, surprisingly ran the beta reasonably well. We were able to run OpenOffice, Firefox, Quicktime, Flash, Acrobat Reader, Yahoo! Messenger, Skype, and the medical courseware with no problems at all. One or two at a time only though.

Looks like Windows 7 is going to be better than Windows Vista. Well definitely, since it seems to be just Vista with the problems fixed :P

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Skype on Linux

By on Saturday, January 17, 2009

My sister needed a computer for reviewing for her medical exams so I lent her my old (ancient?) IBM Thinkpad X22 which is running Kubuntu. She needed Skype to be able to talk to her hubby who is in the US so we downloaded and installed Skype. Well, what do you know? It actually installed and ran without a hitch. Linux definitely has come a long way. If it we’re not for my games, I would have it on my Asus EEE PC 1000H. I wonder if it’s time to check out Wine, the Linux Windows Emulator, again. Hmmm.

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Software Development Humor

By on Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Comment on source code:

/*
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again:
the following chunk o’stuff should likely be in common.jsp
since it’s used in several places.
When I get some free time, I’ll add it and will clean up
the pages that are using it.  –MJ
I don’t believe that because MJ no longer works here. — TF
10 Mar 2001.
*/

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