Asymptomatic

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Where BaseRep Fails
March 26, 2010

Back in December of 2000, I was checking out games for the PS2, and was particularly interested in a particular racing game. I bought the game, Midnight Club: Street Racing, played it, disliked it, and wrote a review about why I disliked the game on Amazon. This is where my discovery of the failure of the baserep system starts.

Perhaps I should describe baserep. I’d been looking for a term to associate with this system of rating that allows you to rate an item (and it could be any item - a game, a book, a movie, even people) on a scale, and then have your rating averaged in with the overall number of responses.

Remove All Palm Pre Contacts
January 16, 2010

I had to reset my Pre this week because it wouldn’t install new applications, probably as a result of letting WebOS upgrade while some patches were still enabled. Anyway, after the factory restore was finished (using WebOS Doctor) I started re-enabling my accounts in email and contacts. When I did so, I got a bunch of duplicate contact records that would not stay open. Every time I tapped on one, it would pop up for a moment, blank, and then immediately close. Even after removing all my accounts from the system, these contacts remained, exhibiting that same behavior.

Obviously, this was unwanted, so I did a little research. Below are instructions for how I killed those duplaicate contacts without resetting my system again or creating a new Palm Profile (both of which seem like really stupid solutions, anyway).