La Presse journalist Patrick Lagacé just found out his phone was tapped by Quebec police, one of 7 other Quebec reporters. His meta data and geolocated movement were legally obtained, through 24 court ordered warrants for police surveillance. This is shocking.
DS ()Diana Swain): We’ve focused on journalists, and that’s what we’ve heard about this week. But should Canadians at large be concerned about this? People who are not journalists?
Terrible, are the instructions that came with my Chamberlain LiftMaster Professional garage door opener 1355C, 1/2 hp. Sure, read them, but if you have no clue then try my rough adjustment guideline as a start.
My idler bolt broke, sending my chain flopping down. When I replaced my idler bolt, I had no idea how to get the chain adjusted. Firstly, close your opener. The trolley should be close to your door. put some slack in your chain and then route it through the opener’s gear. Then tighten everything up. Damn there’s nothing about this in the manual. I had to do this by trial and error three times, slackening, getting it into the gears, tightening, repeat 3 times. What a hassle. Clearer instructions would have been a time and frustration saver.
Chamberlain LiftMaster 1355C garage door opener, idler bolt sheared off. Photo3 by Don Tai, Toronto, Canada
Impressed, I am not, when my garage door opener stopped working. I have a Chamberlain LiftMaster garage door opener, model 1355C 1/2 hp in chain drive. The failure of the idler bolt was catastrophic.
There is a metal gear on the motor, which moves a metal chain in an oval, opening and closing the garage door. At the door side, opposite to the door opener, the chain makes a 180 degree turn back to the opener on a plastic wheel, called the idler. The wheel is fine, but the metal bolt that keeps the idler attached to the metal rail sheared off at the threads.
Our home internet service provider here in Toronto, Canada, is Bell Canada. I received an email from Bell at 10:01 telling me we are at 90% of our limit, and have 8.2G left. This email is not uncommon and I expect it on heavy months. Usually 8.2G should last us at least 2 days. At 12:30 I receive another email stating that we are now 350M over our limit.
What the hell!?! During that time I was having lunch and not even on the computer, and there is no one else in the house. This sounds fraudulent.
My Birch tree has turned its leaves yellow already. We have had a couple of nights of near zero degree temperatures, signaling to the birch that it is time to go dormant. The cycle of life continues.
秋天桦树的叶子变成黄。
Birch Tree in Autumn, leaves turned yellow. Toronto, Canada
Hate, we do, all comment spam. They post, we delete, but I actively ban. Still, they come back for more. It must be economically worthwhile for these people to continually do this, because there seems to be no end in sight as to when they will stop. Comment spam is here to stay. Innovations are bound to happen, so I’ve logged what I have learned.
You will need to utilize your raw access log to see these techniques in action.
Boulevard repaving, Toronto, Canada. The boulevard asphalt on my neighbours house is compressed by a roller machine. Photo8 by Don Tai
Toronto Hydro had dug up a section of my neighbour’s boulevard when Bell Canada came in to install their fiber optic cables. Hydro dug up a section of asphalt, did the repair, poured gravel down the hole, then repaved with asphalt. A month later the gravel and asphalt has settled. The City of Toronto then dug up the complete boulevard and repaved the bottom layer with asphalt. They will later return to complete the top layer with a finer asphalt.
Spotted Cucumber Beetle, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi, found on our jiecai, from our local Chinese store. I believe there is poo coming out of its butt. Toronto, Canada. Photo by Don Tai
Icky maybe, but if insects are eating your vegetables, then it must be healthy to eat. These are photos the Spotted Cucumber Beetle, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi, spotted on our Chinese vegetables, jiecai, a leafy green, from the local Chinese store. It was dead.
Viking Auto Dryer by the T. Eaton Company, 1995, front control panel. Photo by Don Tai
Dead it was, our dryer, a Viking Auto Dryer, from the T. Eaton Company, circa 1995, model number EDX22RW1181, front load, Toronto, Canada, hopelessly turning and turning, all without heat. Of course our clothes were not dry after an hour. Wife was not impressed and put the dryer at the top of my “to do” list. A solution was required before the next weekend load. Nothing stops for laundry or cooking.
Hotlinking is simply not cool. Referrer spam is also not cool. I get both of these from 4 Blogspot sites, and have struggled to contain their mess. The problem is that they are hosted by Google, through their Blogger platform, GoogleUserContent.com. Though Blogger is free, they are very difficult to kill. Here’s what I did to combat the problem.
