I don’t think I need add anything to this comedic manual page from my sewing machine: Too bad it doesn’t have an entry for the actual problem – missing bobbin case.. but maybe I can guess.. replace bobbin case? :)
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I’m going to Moscow in a couple of months, and we bought the tickets a while ago. More recently I’ve randomly discovered that I need a visa to travel to Russia. I’m glad I know people who know these things, it would have been very annoying to arrive there and be told we’re not allowed …
Continue reading How to get a tourist visa to travel to Russia from CanadaI figured at some point after heartbleed (after sites had time to get themselves patched) I should change all my passwords for valuable services. I’m doing that now and I was shocked by a couple where it wouldn’t let me change my password because the new one was too complex :) The last time I …
Continue reading Your password is too… hard to breakThis should be the only post in the series that won’t be marked “Safe for Seneca”. It cannot be, because I am angry, very very angry, and that will result in all kinds of colourful language. What the bloody hell were the Android people thinking when they came up with this bullshit action bar to …
Continue reading DPS924 Part8: WTF Retarded Android action barI always thought I’m pretty good at learning languages. After all I lived in 4 countries and at some point in my life spoke fluent russian, two versions of romanian, and english. But I’ve been trying to learn french for over a decade with no success. I used to think the reason is no immersion …
Continue reading Learning frenchI’ve gone on my honeymoon to Peru a couple of weeks ago and now that I’m back I’m going through my email. I have a spam filter but sometimes things go through it, especially if it’s something unusual. I’ve already deleted 4 spam messages, every single one of them in Spanish. I don’t even remember …
Continue reading When they know too much about youI don’t think I’ve ever had a summer as successful as this one in terms of vacations. I went to Newfoundland and back on my motorcycle, and I went on a 5-day canoe trip in Killarney. Now what could I possibly do to compete with that in the coming winter…
Continue reading How to spend your vacation properlyFor quite a few years I resisted the temptation of setting up a wireless network at home. Story after story suggested that WiFi is a crappy, unstable, and awfully insecure set of technologies. Finally though things seemed to have settled down, and with WPA2 the wardriving stories ended. So a couple of years ago I …
Continue reading Wireless security.. rightI was planning to go on a long trip on my bike, and I needed to bring luggage. The trip was long enough and I needed enough stuff that putting it all in a backpack wasn’t doable. I shopped around for such a rack but didn’t find anything at a price I was willing to …
Continue reading DIY motorcycle rackAs part of an exercise in a course I was taking I was required (or at least strongly encouraged) to create a Twitter account and learn to use it. I figured why not, might as well see what it’s about, maybe there’s something I’m missing. After a few days I decided I wasn’t missing anything …
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