Tiredness And Something Else?

What long work hours, a few hours of sleep (and perhaps a bit of idiocy) can do…

At work, the project I’m working on is about making some of our Portal’s widgets cross-browser compatible so that the attorneys can access them through their iPhones. For this project, I’m using VB.Net, XML, XSLT, JavaScript and, of course, CSS.

This widget in particular has a treeview module which, like most treeviews, expands and collapses when it has sub-nodes…

Then, I come home – and after watching Star Trek Enterprise and Stargate SG-1, I continue working on one of my freelance jobs. The two things these two projects have in common is JavaScript and CSS; the programming language, however, is different. For my freelance projects, I use PHP and MySQL.

Anyway, last night I was finalizing some points of the latest project I was working on (we expect going live sometime this weekend) when around 12:30 AM, my mouse and the keyboard stopped working. Well, no biggie, I said, and paired the mouse again. When I tried to pair the keyboard, it wouldn’t do it. I was entering the key code my mac was requesting, but I would get a “device could not be paired” (or something like that) message. I changed the batteries, but to no avail. I almost smashed the keyboard but didn’t let the frustration to take over me… so I “gently” put it away and pulled an old (like 10 year old) USB keyboard that I never used – good thing I didn’t throw it away.

Sure, I could’ve used my laptop’s keyboard, but to pull it in front of me, I had to disconnect the secondary monitor, the ethernet cable and other devices, so… no. Well, I used the old keyboard to finish the things I needed to and got them ready for prime time.

At lunch, I went to the Apple store and bought a new wireless keyboard – the new models are really cool – and as soon as I got home, I disconnected the USB one and tried to pair the new one with me laptop…. but it didn’t work. The “device could not be paired” message popped up again and I was like: WTF!?

By googling this issue, I found some possible solutions to this problem, unfortunately… none of them worked. I was like “man, I wasted $86.00 on a keyboard that I cannot use!”. I kept googling and found a solution, a very simple one, but effective… Since I was able to pair me old keyboard before, I’m pretty sure I’ve used such “solution” previously, but for some reason, I wasn’t doing it this time….

smashing So… what’s the “solution”? simple press [Enter] after entering the key code. Yes, pressing the friggin’ [Enter] key was all I had to do. So the old keyboard is still good and, although I may not really need the new one, I’m keeping it. Like I said, it’s really cool and small (resembles that of a laptop’s); besides, the old one needs some vacations, so…

There you have it, like I said, that shows you what long work hours, tiredness, a few hours of sleep (and maybe a bit of idiocy) can do to you… it makes you forget to press the effin’ [Enter] key which leads you to believe your keyboard doesn’t work anymore and you see yourself in the necessity of buying a new one… *sigh* Yeah, I felt like an idiot… Still, I like very much me new keyboard :D

I’m still tired, so please excuse me if I’m misspelling words and stuff… I just don’t feel like proofreading my post.

Wanna laugh a little? go to the next page.

The Fast And…

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Party Guys

Music Is In The Heart

A few months ago I shared with you some of the melodies I’ve composed using Apple’s GarageBand. Now, I’d like to share them with you again – and some more. This is my (almost) whole repertoire; there are some revisions/edits that obviously I won’t put here, but if I was to put out an album, these songs would be the ones in it. Read More »

Stand By Me

I co-worker sent me this video and now I’d like to share it with you. I lack the words to describe it… so just watch it ;)

This song is performed by musicians around the world.

This video was produced by the Playing For Change Foundation.

Pretty cool, ain’t it?

From Scratch

Well, after having some issues with the recent upgrade of Habari – and because I don’t have the time to dive into the code, check what the problem may be and fix it meself -, I just decided to start all over again. I was just gonna drop every table in the DB and forget about the “old” blog… but Ella suggested me to keep my posts if only to myself… Thanks again for the suggestion, Ella!

I thought of downloading the blog and keep and offline version, but then I thought of something which I think is even better: keep it online but move it to another subdomain. And that’s exactly what I did.

If you want to read me old blog, feel free to do so. The username is guest and the psswrd is 123123. If you read the last two posts, you might perceive my frustration.

For this blog, I’ll make a skin inspired on the old one. We’ll see how it turns out.

Lates

Guess Who’s Back…

…back again.

This is just a temp post so the “Bloggin’ Cool is no more” page is not displayed anymore ;)

Lates.