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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….

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

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

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