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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.

Bluetooth

So, I bought that USB Bluetooth stick at the easter marked.
That thing is a disaster. It just refuses to work, giving error code 43,
when using microsoft driver, and a license error when using the widcomm driver

First problem the VID/PID doesn’t list in the standard inf files
(VID 0A5C, PID 2035 )
but after editing those, it installs, but then the errors mentioned above show up.
Also the BlueSoleil bluetooth drivers don’t work. So I can’t get this
damn thing to work.

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.

Today, I was supposed to write a happy post,
something saying “Life is great, isn’t it”
That was written on a T-shirt, 1½ year ago,
back at the introductions of my new school.
Back then, I was screaming inside “NOT TRUE”
but nowadays I think it is, great, not perfect,
perfect doesn’t exsist, and there are a lot of things
I wish were different, but still… life is great.

Still, now, today, there is something bothering me,
making me kinda sad and worried. It’s my uncle.
He’s been in a weird mood today, saying things to
both my aunt and me like “Things are youing to change,
I’ll deal with both of you.” Frightning isn’t it?
My uncle, I’m worried about him. He’s acting weird
lately. Like he’s paranoid. Having the bath
rooms door closed at night so a thief wouldn’t be able
to look inside, and stuff like that. It’s not normal,
and besided, our bathroom borders no street walls,
and that place youget there through the house, so, it
just doesn’t make sense. And next to that the things
he said today, it makes me sad and worried. It seems
he doesn’t trust anyone, thinks everyone is against him, and
he thinks only his ways are the right ways, if you
do something different then he would do, in his eyes
you’re stupid then, and stuff like that. If you don’t
completely agree with him, you’re against him, he thinks.

Maybe I should move out, I suppose I should, can’t
stay living in a place like this. My uncles behaviour
against us (my aunt and me) has been worse in the
past, and his behavoir to me in the past is the reason
I turned into a shy, introverted person. Because he
always shouted at me, saying bad things about my
family, and also the reason I was depressed a year
ago.

So, I suppose, I should move out… but… Can I really?
Can I just leave my aunt alone with him?
What am I supposed to do?

Anime I am watching atm:

Name Episode
Rurouni Kenshin 18
D.N. Angel 23
Bleach 8
Jigoku Shoujo 5
Death Note 9
D. Gray-man 3
Gravitation 3

Anime I finished watching:

Name
Angel’s Feather
.hack//roots
Noein
Full Moon wo Sagashite
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Oh yeah, especially Death Note is good, really addicting,
wanting to watch all episodes at once. hehehe.


I was about to write about the snow this morning,
last week it was 17 *C, but this morning, when I woke
up and watched out of the window, i saw snow.
wtf! It snowed tonight!

But, when I went to school, I had train problems, an accident
happened between Weert and Eindhoven, causing the train
not to go farther then Weert, and me being at school at 10.30
in stead of 9.30. Fucking NS!!!!!

So, yesterday, I had no school and went over at hans’ place.
So first we placed some games at the old Nintendo NES.
The original Zelda game. I have a talent for dieing. lol.
and some other games. And later twilight princes at the
gamecube. Amazing how much the technology changed in
the past 15 years. Then, I wonder what technology we’ll
have 15 years from now.

Technology is changing fast, in computers, game consoles,
how not so long ago a video recorder was quitte normal,
now it’s the DVD recorder, and the successors of the
DVD are already available.

New technologies, makes many people forget about the old.
But I think sush an old NES is still as much fun as a Gamecube.
It’s not all about the better graphics and stuff, it’s also about
the gameplay, wich is quitte different, a complete different style,
that’s also forgotten in our modern world of 3D graphics.

Also the Personal Computer has undergone quitte a lot of changes
in the past years. Faster, more powerfull, but also the designs changed.
And in the next years, they will change more. Even more customisele then
they are already. The structure design will change, and ‘fix’ the think
what has been ‘wrong’ in the past years, ever since the 3dfx card.
A 3d-accelerator, a GPU, being at a PCI, later AGP, or even more recent
PCI-X-16x card, moving to the processor bus, being places like a co-processor,
like back in the pre-486 days, you could add a math co-processor.

Today, I got a letter from my bank, the rabobank,
with an offer for a cell phone contract. So, in 2007
banks offer cell phone contracts? Insanity!
What’s next, a bank account at a phone company?

Well … a few years ago Albert Heijn, a super marked,
they offered a saving account, but they had to stop
doing so because of legal reasons. So, I wonder,
how legal is it for a bank to offer cell phone contracts?

A bank is for money, not for phones. It’s insane!