May 2024

In the basement of my mom's office, there was an old dryer outlet.

But the wire gauge was too small.

So today, me and my dad removed the plug, the fuse/switch box and two cables.

It was : panel > blue cable > junction box > orange cable > fuse/switch > white cable > dryer plug.

We left the blue cable and the junction box. We put marrettes on the three wires in the junction box. (So that there is no short circuit if someone turns on the breaker)

That way, the next owners of the house cannot plug a dryer into this unsafe outlet.

The basement is too dirty for clean clothes anyway.

I just uploaded episode 8.

http://backyard.goldrush2010.net/

I am about to watch it.

It's a password you leave everywhere and that you cannot change if someone makes a copy of it.

It sucks.

Yeah sure, the ipa is on your own server. But since you have to ask permission from Apple to make it available for installation, it is pretty much just a second App Store.

It does not make things better.

You have to submit to a lot of rules and accept a bunch of conditions. Apple may also revoke your app in the future and make it unable to be installed.

https://developer.apple.com/support/web-distribution-eu/

Apple is in control of everything related to installing apps "from websites". So it's pretty much App Store 2.0.

What would /really/ be interesting is if you could install an ipa from a website /without/ having to ask Apple to allow it.

<a href=app.ipa>Install my app</a>

There's no good reason for things to be any more complicated than that.

Apple should not be in control of what can and cannot be installed on the devices we bought.

Next year, we're selling the house I grew up in. I am sad.

We are building a new house 45 minutes away and we could only get the loan to build it if we sold our current house.

Right now, I live with my parents in a house. I have been there forever.

We also have a house which my mom uses as her office. We will have to sell it too.


I have so much stuff. It will take a lot of loads to move it all.

I was thinking of moving my iMac, server and work PC last. Then schedule the moving of our internet access and static IP (I hope they can move the IP address we currently have).

Hopefully, my website will not be down for long.


But this is a year off. I have lots of time.

I just uploaded the first two episodes.

I have not watched them yet.

http://www.doctorwho2005.net/en/

The theory that stepping on a butterfly in the past will change the present is completely retarded.

The way I see it, the present was already affected by what you will do in the past. You cannot change anything.

I just finished Doctor Who episode Space Babies.

They also try to avoid changing things or creating paradoxes. What's wrong with changing things ?

We had trouble starting our ATV. We would hear the relay click but the motor would not turn.

So we thought, OK the battery is bad. Let's replace it. (Its voltage was too low too)

So we put the new battery in. Same problem. Relay clicks, motor does not turn.

So my dad pulls the cord. After playing with the choke and pulling a couple times, the motor started.

This means we have a problem with the starter. We will look at it later.


We needed the AVT to pull our trailer with our cement mixer in it.

We keep the trailer in a temporary canvas garage in our backyard (that we leave there all year). But to get anything out of the backyard, there is a steep incline to reach the driveway and then the street.

We use our ATV (which we keep in the same canvas garage) to pull the trailer up that incline.


We also need the cement mixer at my mom's office.

The concrete in the basement is breaking apart. My dad filled three big containers with pieces of concrete. We need to put more concrete on top to make it look nice before we sell the house.

Me and my dad spent three hours setting up for our project of smoothing out the concrete in the basement of my mom's office.

At the end, we had time to pour one bag of cement-sand mix.

Next time, we're just mixing and pouring. This should go faster.

Unfortunately, there is an 80 % chance of rain tomorrow.

We need to finish before Friday. This is when the realtor is taking the pictures to sell the house.

Me and my dad just put four bags of cement-sand mix on the basement floor.

We are patching the holes to make the floor look less bad and to make it safer.

We did three patches today. Two hours and ten minutes.

There are now two big patches and a small one.

The small one we did yesterday around the cleanout is now dry.

Tomorrow, we will enlarge the small one.

Me and my dad just finished fixing the basement floor at my mom's office.

There used to be a step. Now we have a gradual slope.

We did a big patch.

His electrician does something really stupid with electric panels.

- He pulls all the cables out of the panel.
- He drill holes in the plywood on both sides of the panel.
- He fishes the cables from the back, through the holes and into the panel.

Doing it this way makes it impossible to trace the cables.

You open the panel. You want to know where the cables are going.

So you follow the cable. Breaker. Panel. Hole. Hey! Where does it go?

The electrician says it looks neater. Not to me. Plus it's a big problem when you have troubles and need to trace the cables.

I just put online the last Doctor Who episode.

http://2023.doctorwho2005.net/en/

I am about to watch it.

I just added a lot of robots.txt files to my various websites so they stop being indexed in search engines.

I want them to be online for as long as possible. I don't want to have them be shutdown by copyright owners.

I just separated my Doctor Who collection into two websites :

http://www.doctorwho2005.net/
http://www.doctorwho2023.net/

If Disney shuts down the second one, hopefully I can keep online the first one.

As usual, I want my various collections to remain online for as long as possible.

Over a month ago, I found a torrent of torrents to download the classic episodes of Doctor Who.

All 26 seasons.

Unfortunately, no one seeds the torrents anymore.

The main torrent was uploaded in 2013. It's too late. :(

Friday, I ordered a new router I assumed was gigabit.

Yesterday, I noticed that it was actually 100 Mb/s. So I ordered a new one which should be delivered Monday.

I just got the router. It says right on the box that it is 100 Mb/s.

I'm going to keep it anyway.

This year, we're building a new house.

We had originally planned to build it ourselves to save money (my dad would be the general contractor).

But it turns that hiring a general contractor will be cheaper.

We're still going to be watching everything they do to make sure it is done right.

We plan to get the concrete tested too. (to make sure it has enough MPa)


I plan on running Cat6 to every room.

I'm also looking at a wall-mounted rack for the router and switches.

The holes to fasten it to the wall are exactly 16" apart. That's neat. We can screw it into the studs.

I just added The Sarah Jane Adventures and K9 to my collection.

http://www.doctorwho2005.net/

I am successfully downloading the first three classic seasons of Doctor Who.

At the speed it's going, it should take a few weeks to download all 26 seasons.

Season 2 downloads the fastest.

Unfortunately, qBittorrent will only download three torrents at a time.

We needed our ATV to move the trailer from the driveway to the bottom level of our backyard.

We've had troubles with the starter. We would push the button, the relay would click but the starter would not turn.

So we tried to push the button repeatedly to locate the relay with the sound it makes.

Suddenly, it started!

We were surprised.

At least my dad did not have to pull the starter cord.

For the past three days, I have been downloading the first thirteen seasons of Classic Doctor Who.

It is very slow.

When I will be done downloading and converting all 26 seasons, I will put the episodes on a website (I already bought the domain name).

I'm just missing seasons 1 and 2.

It won't download anymore.

Hopefully it will be done tomorrow.


Every Saturday, I update, fully backup and reboot my server.

Since I download torrents directly to my server with an SMB share, I have to wait for them to be done before starting the backup.

Tomorrow, I also hope to be able to download, convert, put online and watch the last Doctor Who episode.

The download just finished.

It's been at 99.9% for days.

I am now downloading seasons 14 to 26.

I just put online the latest episode.

I am about to watch it.

http://www.doctorwho2023.net/en/

I am still torrenting the Classic Doctor Who episodes.

I just finished watching it.

I am very confused.

I'll have to watch it again tomorrow.

I just watched it a second time.

I am much less confused.

I just finished downloading the 26 seasons of Classic Doctor Who.

I just started the conversion from avi to mp4.

I do not know how long it will take to convert every episode.

I will leave it converting 24/7 until it is done.

I just finished converting and putting online the classic episodes of Doctor Who :

http://www.doctorwho1963.net/

I just added "Recon" to every reconstructed episode.

http://www.doctorwho1963.net/

I just made a webpage so anyone can try programming in the language I created that is compiled into Brainfuck.

I still do not have a name for the language.

http://www.philippe97.ca/phil2bf/

Here is my version of 99 Bottles of Beer :

char num1 set num1 '9
char num2 set num2 '9
char lines set lines 99
while lines
	dec lines
	
	char out
	
	declare number
		equal out num1 '0 ifnotz out
			put num1
		end
		put num2
	return
	
	inline number print \ bottles\ of\ beer\ on\ the\ wall.\n
	inline number print \ bottles\ of\ beer.\n
	print Take\ one\ down,\ pass\ it\ around,\n
	
	equal out num2 '0 ifz out
		dec num1
		set num2 '9
		inc num2
	end
	dec num2
	
	inline number print \ bottles\ of\ beer\ on\ the\ wall.\n
	
	print \n
end

Je viens d'enregistrer les épisodes 1 à 4 sur Disney+ et les ai mis sur mon site web :

http://www.doctorwho2023.net/fr/

I just added "left" and "right" commands to my language.

It allows to create "unbalanced" loops.

http://www.philippe97.ca/phil2bf/

This prints ABCDA :

char a char b char c char d char e
set e 'A
while e
	dec e
	inc a
	inc b
	inc c
	inc d
end
incby b 1
incby c 2
incby d 3
while a
	put a
	right 1
end
left 4
put a