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Fitbit has arrived

The much anticipated FitBit has finally arrived. It took 6 days to travel from America to The Netherlands and stayed 1 day in the customs here in the Netherlands. The reason why I purchased it is because I am currently working on a project involves with sleep and this FitBit has the ability to measure your sleep, which is pretty similar in the concept of what I am working on, so I was curious about this little thing. So far this little product is pretty cool.

Meet the family

You place the FitBit in a soft wrist band while you sleep and it will record the time you took to fall asleep, how many times you woke up at night, and the bed time. Basically Fitbit uses the same technology that has been used in sleep research and fitnesses, namely the accelerometers, which can measure your activity and the number of steps (pedometer). If you want to measure your activity, you can clip it on your belt, your pocket, etc.. You will have your very own Nike+Ipod sensor

Problem printing in Microsoft Excel

Lately at work, we are having some problem printing an Microsoft Excel document to Brother HL-2030/2040 printer in Windows XP SP3. However, the printer works perfectly in other application, such as Microsoft Word, Notepad, or even a test page from the settings. But printing from Microsoft Excel just does not seem to be working. When pressing the print button, you will notice that everything went well, but strangely nothing is coming out from the printer.

And something more extraordinary, when selecting another printer in Microsoft Excel, such as a network printer, it works perfectly. This problem seems only to be occurring with Brother HL-2030/2040 in Microsoft Excel.

After I played with every setting I can think of and installing and updating Microsoft Office countless time, I found something very interesting. When making a slight change on the Brother HL-2030/2040 printer settings, e.g. another default printer instead of Brother printer, or changing the drivers, surprisingly it works again in Microsoft Excel…for a while!

 Until now, I am not able to find what is causing this problem. But to make sure that users can perform their work, I created a batch file that changes the default printer and reset it back to it again. This does allows user to print document again from Excel, but it must be run every time when the printer does not work. This might not be the cleanest solution, but it works temporally. If another knows a solution, just let me know. Reinstalling windows is currently out of question

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Mr Stupid and Twanger in Tank Wars

Anybody remember their first computer? I remember when my dad bought an 386 with full color monitor support. Yeah, with color and it has DOS 5.0! we had the fastest computer in the neighborhood! I remember all the kids from the block use to come to our house just to play video games

Anybody remember their first computer? I remember when my dad bought a 386 with full color monitor support. Yeah, with color and it has DOS 4.01! we had the fastest computer in the neighborhood! I remember all the kids from the block use to come to our house just to play video games

My life with the computer started with throwing bananas to each other. That is right, throwing bananas. Kids, you can ask your dad or mom what I am talking about. I am sure, if they are computer geek like me, they will know exactly what I am talking about. Anyhow, after losing countless time, I have came to a realization that I need to have unlimited bananas! And that’s how my programming life began…

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Speed Download Lite

This might be interesting for those who knows what I am trying to do:

Speed Download Lite – /Users/<name>/Library/Preferences/.com.settings.local.lite.plist