Saw the intro portion of the Binibinig Pilipinas pageant and if I hadn’t known better, I’d have thought it’s one of those noontime variety shows. They should have chosen a better producer. Hopefully the rest of the show is much better.
Just before Holy Week, the car overheated because the radiator fan wasn’t automatically activating. The aircon also died. My theory was that the overheat resulted in the refrigerant to go hot, over pressured, and got vented out by some pressure relief valve. I direct-connected the radiator fan so that it’s always on. Not a long-term solution as this will shorten the life of the fans. I also made do without air conditioning. Or rather Michelle did.
Today, I visited Fusion R and they confirmed that the radiator fan wasn’t working properly because the radiator fan temperature switch connector was loose due to a broken clip. They tried looking for a replacement but couldn’t find any. So what they did was remove the old temperature sensor and connector and replaced them with ones from a Subaru. Total cost P3000 for the Subaru stuff and labor. Ouch! At least the car has a little bit of Subaru genes now :P
But it wasn’t over yet. Next, I went to the aircon shop. They said everything seems okay, there are no visible signs of a leak. So they’ll just recharge the refrigerant and observe if there’s a leak. Bad decision. In just a few minutes the refrigerant was gone again. There was definitely a leak.
They pulled down the evaporator and the pipings to look for it and sure enough there was a huge one in the piping near the radiator. The radiator had somehow sawed a hole on it. They brazed the leak shut, reinstalled everything, and recharged again. Total cost P950 for the initial recharge and P2650 for the pulldown and repair. Ouch again!
It became clear what happened: The radiator abraded the aircon piping until it finally blew venting out refrigerant. The aircon system detected the low level of refrigerant and shut down as a failsafe. This means the radiator fan and auxiliary fan didn’t spin as they usually do when the aircon switch is on. Since the radiator temp switch wasn’t working properly, the radiator fan didn’t turn on and the engine overheated.
Just when I though I could get away from Facebook, they’re buying up Instagram, my photo sharing network and app of choice. Knowing them, they’ll probably claim the pictures (and everything else) you post are not yours. So I just might have to switch. And soon. Path?
On other hand, I’m happy for the founders of Instagram. From a valuation of $100M, then $500M, and now $1B in a matter of months. For sure the recent availability of the Android version of the app pushed the valuation up. That alone has the potential to almost instantly double it’s current user level of 30M. Not bad. Not bad at all.
Easter is not complete without an Easter egg hunt especially for the kiddies Ioan, Viela, and Jeanne. My mom and dad bought eggs and Edong, Elanor, James, Michelle, and I spent the night before Easter painting eggs. Michelle slept at 3AM!
The next day, we brought the eggs to the beach thinking we can have the egg hunt there. However, it turned out that there were other people also there. So we decided to postpone and have it at home instead. Unfortunately, it was raining when we got there.
We were not about to let rain spoil our egg hunt. We decided to have it indoors. We hid the eggs throughout the den and then let the kiddies loose. It was a riot and everyone, kiddies and kiddies-at-heart included, had a fun and enjoyable egg hunt.
I was really bored and couldn’t sleep so I figured, why not try the recently released Temple Run for Android on my test Android phone, a SIM-less LG Optimus Black. So I booted up, joined my home WiFi network, opened Android Market Google Play, and searched for “Temple Run”. No connection. I retried. Still no connection. I checked the browser and other network apps and they seemed to be working fine. Only Google Play was not working. It seems it requires a data connection even if I’m already on WiFi.
I figured, maybe it’s an Android 2.2 Frozen Yogurt problem. The Android 2.3 Gingerbread update has supposedly been made available by LG so I figured maybe it’s time I should upgrade. I went to the LG website and found out that there is an unspecified, hopefully Android 2.3, update available. But I needed to download a Windows USB driver and a Windows update manager. Unfortunately, I have no Windows machine. Dead end. I guess I shouldn’t be complaining about the iPhone being reliant on iTunes :P
UPDATE: Turns out it’s the time and date. I just set it to current and Google Play worked. Go figure.