jadz

Last night I attempted PM Yoga for Beginners. It was my first time trying Yoga and I was suprized at how dificult basic contortion of your body is. Some of the moves I was not able to do because I hurt my knee last month, and other moves I could not do (properly) because I lacked flexibility.

I suggested that Brittany and I try to alternate nights of Yoga and the Gym (classic cardio/weights), so we will try that for a while.

Last night I also had a major breakthrough in my carputer, when I found the receiver to my wireless gamepad that I have embedded into my steering wheel. As a result of car manufactorers dislike for putting lots of wires through the steering column to the steering wheel, the controls on a steering wheel are usually put through a resistive network and then fed through a single wire back to a controling box that decodes the signal. What this boils down to is that each control on the steering wheel has a different resistance, but not individual wires to connect to.

I wanted to use the buttons on the 2004 Cadillac steering wheel I put on my ‘92 STS so I had to build some custom circuit boards to put in the switches that gave me two contacts per swtich. I then connected the contacts from each of the circuit board to a wireless gamepad from Logitech. This allowed me to connect the switches, without any wires to my carputer.

Well up until last night I had not been able to find the receiver for said wireless gamepad. Now I have found the receiver and on the drive to work today I was switching through the songs like nobodies business.

After thinking I had lost my BlackBerry, having the account suspended, then activated again when the person who found my phone returned it, the data portion of my phone was not working.

I called Rogers and asked them what the problem was. The support agent aid that I needed to take the battery out of the phone to power cycle the phone. It reminded me of working at aliant. Sure enough, it worked, which also reminded me of working at aliant.
All we need now is modems that powercycle themselves.

I am now at the brewery tour.
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Well not totally, but I have stopped hailing it as my first choice in file sharing applications. Shareaza is a (now) open source Peer-2-Peer (p2p) client that supports multiple networks and protocols including the gnutella network and also torrent networks.

I have always been impressed with Shareaza because of the quality of their releases, and care that is put into their website etc.

I have now realized that it is just not meeting my file sharing needs because of its current lack for uPnP, which is able to automatically setup port forwarding on my router, and its slow speed. I have also decided to use a torrent application for torrents, and a index searching p2p client for regular p2p.

I have switched to the following torrent applicaiton
– uTorrent

�Torrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients.

Try it out. It is not open source but it is free and is also very fast and small.

For the time, I have also switched to Limewire.