Thu Tu’s Blog

On Monday 5/21, I was driving home and noticed that the XM satellite signal kept fading in and out along certain parts of the route. I take a different route in the morning and I knew for sure there was one or two flaky spots. I just wasn’t sure that there were so many in [...]

Recently, my mobile phone battery hasn’t been holding the charge for more than a couple of days or so. I used to be able to go for days without having to charge it. Now I have to worry about not being able to finish a call because I am already getting a low battery warning [...]

The past few months, my laptop has been running really hot, as well as very noisily with the fan at full force. At one point, it even shut down spontaneously from being too hot. I visually inspected the fans and they seemed fine. Ideally, I should have opened up the laptop to inspect the fans [...]

If you have your Tivo remote control programmed to enable 30 second skip, it might be a cause for concern to switch to using the Harmony 720 Remote… will it support it? Yes, it does. It’s not so straightforward, though, because it is not in the commands database.
I’ll describe the steps to program the Harmony [...]

My heart skipped a beat or two this morning when I checked the car clock on the way to work and it said 11:30. Sure, going to work at 10:30 is late by some standards, but it feels very different to me when it gets to be 11 o’clock. Then it dawned on me that [...]

If you’re in the US, make sure your clocks are showing the correct time. Daylight saving time started 3 weeks early.
So far, these are my gadgets that are not showing the correct time, but should due to sync mechanisms:

digital clock that uses radio signal to synchronize time. Even though I changed it to DST on, [...]

It’s another single Valentine’s Day for me. At least the shipments of two of my online orders coincided to work out so that I got two gifts for myself: Wii Play and the latest version of my Honda GPS Navi DVD. Yeah, I’m a big geek.
I get my shipments sent to work so I don’t [...]