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793 days ago
In the process of updating my Soapbox sidebar gadget, I ran into a little problem with timers and resuming from sleep. I had a timer setup to make a network call every 30 minutes, but upon resume the network call would fail and the timer would not be reset into its proper failure state (on failure, the timer switches to 2.5 minute updates, in case your network connection comes back). After poking around for a bit, I found that if I listened for System.Gadget.visibilityChanging to stop and restart the timers, everything started working correctly. Just wanted to share that bit of info in case others are having the same problem.
1107 days ago
1123 days ago
Yesterday I spent 3.5 hours detailing a friend's Miata. I did it because I enjoy doing that stuff (I did my own car in preparation for winter last week). The car started out in pretty bad shape, having not been washed in several years. Once I got all of the grime off (and clayed the paint), it was clear that the paint had oxidized quite a bit, as many older cars with red paint don't have a clear coat for whatever reason (oddly enough, the car was devoid of swirl marks -- I assume that's because she never washed it). I had initially just planned for a wash and wax, but this called for more drastic measures. So, out came the non-abrasive paint cleaner. That cleared up the oxidation problem pretty quickly, though I did have to break out my random orbital polisher to remove the excess cleaner. As an aside, I generally prefer to do things by hand, as fingers can get into smaller places than a big buffer. I only used the polisher to remove the excess in this case because the ...
