André's Blog

Today a train hit a car between Roermond and Weert.
Because of that I couldn’t go home after school; the train
only went till Weert. So there I cought a bus to Heythuisen
to Hans, because I couldn’t go home, and stayed the evening
there.
It seems a cargo train hit a car, and at the same moment,
from the other direction, a passenger train also, that’s
what the radio said.

Seems someone took the word ‘snail-mail’ litterly.
The package above arrived in the mail today.
Take a closer look at it.

The thing was sent 11 january, so it took 3 months and a week to
be delivered.
But my Black Rain CD finally arrived. yay!

So, a little update on what’s going on in my life.
I’ve finished all my tests, and got the resutls.
My BC3 ( Coding in Borland C++ ) test was only
5,3. And my other test about Operating Systems
was a 8,0. So the seccond test was nice. As for the
project, it will be something between 7,0 and 7,5.
But that’s not decided yet.
Tomorrow I will go to school to have the interview
for the next project. My teacher is playing a swedish
person. Too bad I don’t know any swedish, would have
been funny to start talking to him in swedish. I once
downloaded some learn swedish thing on the internet
but lazy me started procrastinating again.
So no speaking swedish for me tomorrow. But it would
have been funny, gehehe.

Oh well … that for school stuff. There are some more things
on my mind right now, but not going to tell ya yet.
Wanna know? Gehehehe. Nope, I won’t tell ya!!! lol

I went to the city hall to request a new passport,
since my passport will expire 3 may.
A week ago I went to the photogapher to get
passphotos. All the new rules and shit.
No smile, no glasses, and stuff.
Just to make it easier for computers to reconise.
Anyways the passport costs € 47,10 and it
will be ready next week friday.

I spend some time on trying to repair the dvd burner.
I tightend the spring, now it doesn’t slip but the engine
is slipping, so sure it’s trying to move beyond it’s possible
moving range, so I suppose it is for some reason unable
to determine it’s current position correctly.
That’s what I was affraid of, I can see no way how
it detects it current lens position, so I don’t know
how to fix this.

One of my dvd burners broke down. I contacted BenQ,
but my warrenty expired and so they won’t repair it.

It’s broken, no warrenty, they won’t repair it, so I decided
to take a screwdriver and open the thing, and look for the
problem.

Inside the drive, top:

Inside the drive, bottom:

And finally the problem:

You see the white plastic part, and the copper part.
They are supposed to move the lens, but it’s slipping.
In the hole in the plastic part, you see a spring, it’s used
to press the plasic part against the copper part,
either that spring is worn out, or the plastic part is.

Soooo…. now I know what’s wrong,
I still have to figure out how to fix it.
A new drive is cheap nowadays,
but i just like to try to fix it for fun.

Hehe today it’s the easter marked
already went this moring and ate some reibe kuchen.
lol that’s the reason I go there lol.
Later I will go again for some currywurst. gehehehe
also went back with a broken mmc card I bought at
the christmas marked. Also bought a bluetooth stick
and a 3-way-scart-connector.
Anyways I should have my tv repaired, it has crappy
sound, and that already for over a year lol.