Log - Miklos Bacso

Casio GW7900B-1

16 Feb 2012 23:17:25 PST

Last week I ordered a Casio GW7900B-1 off eBay. I got it a few days later (here is my photo of it), I've been wearing it all week and I gotta say, it's a pretty comfortable watch. It has a lot of features, as you will read on the Casio site linked above. What I like best about it is the atomic timekeeping, because I'm a nut about my watches being accurate. I also like the rugged look and feel, as I've been known to bang my watches around a bit and this one seems like it will take a beating. Anyway, you can find a bunch of reviews about it Google so I'll just say I like it a lot.

P.S.: Some people say it's hard to read in low light, I don't find that to be true. They also say the alarm isn't loud enough... It's plenty loud!

Hilariously Ferocious Underwater Dogs

11 Feb 2012 17:19:37 PST

This is awesome.

Bugs, beware!

26 Jan 2012 16:22:12 PST

Final e-test?

18 Jan 2012 18:57:07 PST

The Mazda hit the 400,000km mark not too long ago, and we were pretty excited for that milestone. Then this past week we had to take it to do an emissions inspection which it failed on two separate occasions. We thought it was the end of the road for the poor car for a brief moment. Then my dad replaced the catalytic converter last night, like he did two years ago and the car passed the inspection today with flying colours. Thank you dad! It just might make it to 500,000km now, which I didn't think was a realistic milestone a few years ago. And who knows, maybe in 2 years if the car is still running and the body hasn't rusted over completely yet, we can change the catalytic converter make it pass another e-test, and give it 2 more years of life! I won't hold my breath though.

Socially Awkceptable

9 Jan 2012 20:55:16 PST

Made up a new phrase today: Socially Awkceptable - Socially awkward, yet still accepted, because so is everyone/everything else. Thanks social media!

Relative time in Coldfusion

4 Jan 2012 16:09:09 PST

Here's a quick Coldfusion function to turn a date stamp into a relative time stamp (like Facebook has their dates showing as "2 seconds ago", for example). I use this at work, but I use its PHP equivalent on my log here.

http://pastebot.net/paste/PgyTNPDPx5x/

Usage:

<cfoutput>#RelativeTime('2012-01-04 16:09')#</cfoutput>

Accessing tumblr custom URL sites with Cogeco

28 Dec 2011 23:35:14 PST

So for the past few weeks I haven't been able to get to either Casey's blog or Alex's blog from home. Turns out Alex can't get to his own site from work either.. What's in common? Our internet provider is Cogeco. There are other people experiencing the same issue.

What I figure is that someone put up a spam tumblr blog somewhere with a custom URL, and Cogeco banned tumblr's custom IP 72.32.231.8.. I emailed them about it almost a week ago and even though they didn't respond, based on that forum post it looks like they've been looking into the issue.

I suppose I will just wait patiently until they figure it out.

Update 14-Jan-12: It seems that they fixed it, at long last!

BestBuy Waiting Room

20 Dec 2011 08:44:07 PST

Any store that makes me wait in line on their online shop does not get my business.

Casey and snow

18 Dec 2011 10:36:05 PST

Track a package

15 Dec 2011 09:07:59 PST

I know you can go to each of these sites individually, but I like less clicks...
http://www.miklos.ca/track

MySQL dump with wildcard table name matching

24 Nov 2011 11:41:55 PST

This is a great reference to achieve it:
http://codeinthehole.com/archives/37-mysqldump-with-wildcard-table-matching.html

Irina Werning - Back to the future 2

17 Nov 2011 14:22:24 PST

http://irinawerning.com/bttf2/back-to-the-future-2-2011/

400,000

15 Nov 2011 22:34:46 PST

It took over 3 years--which is unusual because I used to put an average of 55,000km per year on the car--but the Mazda made it to 400,000km tonight.

Timex T2M933

11 Nov 2011 07:16:38 PST

We got me one of these watches from Walmart last night. It's pretty nice looking! Nikki remarked "It's so small compared to your Luminox!" - which it is, but I don't mind this for everyday wear at the office. I set it against the atomic clock last night, and this morning it's still keeping exact time. That's more than I could say about the older Timex watches in my collection.

Update 15-Nov-11: The watch was returned after I found out about Timex Originals! Wow...

Water Resistance

19 Oct 2011 13:57:08 PDT

I own many watches, all with different water resistance levels. Here's a handy reference table I found on the interweb which should make it a bit more clear as to what all the markings mean.

NO DECLARATION
This model is NOT water resistant. Any water contact should be avoided.

WATER RESIST
This model is resistant to minor and accidental splashes. Greater water contact should be avoided.

WATER RESISTANT 30M (3 ATM / 100 Feet) *
Showering, accidental splashes, short swimming or car washing - it is resistant against perspiration, water vapor or rain drops. Tested for water resistance up to 3 ATM, and must be able to survive 30 minutes under water at a depth of 1 m (3 feet) followed by 90 seconds under a pressure corresponding to 30 meters.

WATER RESISTANT 50M (5 ATM / 160 Feet) *
Showering, accidental splashes, short swimming, car washing, parachuting, hang gliding and skiing - it is resistant against perspiration, water vapor, rain drops. Tested for water resistance up to 5 ATM corresponding to 50 meters

WATER RESISTANT 100M (10 ATM / 300 Feet) *
Swimming, snorkeling, mountain climbing, parachuting, hang gliding, skiing and all kinds of sports challenges. Tested for water resistance up to 10 ATM corresponding to 100 m

WATER RESISTANT 200M (20 ATM / 660 Feet) *
Free diving without scuba gear, and all kinds of water sports. Tested for water resistance up to 20 ATM corresponding to 200 m

WATER RESISTANT 300M (30 ATM / 1000 Feet) *
Scuba diving to a depth of 30 meters, for 2 hours. Tested for water resistance up to 30 ATM corresponding to 300 m

WATER RESISTANT 500M (50 ATM / 1650 Feet) *
Protected for scuba diving to a depth of 50 meters. Tested for water resistance up to 50 ATM corresponding to 500 m

* The metres value does not relate to a diving depth but to the air pressure used in the course of the water resistance test. (DIN 8310, ISO 2281, NIHS 91-10)

2011 hipster

13 Oct 2011 06:53:14 PDT

Why have I not made this connection before?

Logitech Harmony 700

8 Oct 2011 19:23:12 PDT

Today we bought one of these remotes. It's pretty cool I must say. One button turns on every device needed to "Watch TV" or "Watch a Movie" (TV, sound bar, blu-ray player) and it even switches the TV to the proper input.

Steve Jobs

7 Oct 2011 06:48:20 PDT

^{Image credit: Jonathan Mak}

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American computer entrepreneur and innovator. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer.

via Wikipedia

Fido Casting Call

6 Oct 2011 13:15:51 PDT

We entered Casey to be the next Fido dog. Click "Vote" and they will donate $1 to Canada Dog Guides.
http://www.fidocastingcall.ca/dogs/70

Margin Auto in Internet Explorer

4 Oct 2011 19:47:14 PDT

The css property margin:auto works in IE as long as you specify a full and proper doctype, for example:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

I did not know this until today.