Coconut oil ... "please ask your doctor before eating"

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Classified in : etc, Mylife Tags : wtf, oil, cancer
In a random shop, I found a bin filled with coconut oil.
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Why do I post this picture on my blog ? Because of the funny/wtf warning message on it :
"To people under disease treatment : please ask your doctor before using this product"

Wow, maybe it's like I should ask my doctor when choosing what to eat ? oO

Note if you don't know : oil that is solid at ambient temperature is filled with trans fat, and good for trash, or preparing Mc Donald's burger, but it's the same anyway
And, it's not even it's written "Organic" in big letters on a product's label that it guarantees this product will be healthy !

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Long time without using my TI89

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Classified in : etc, Mylife Tags : ti89, software, bug
Today was a nostalgia day : I uploaded program to my good old TI-89 via "$4 parallel link cable" I made around 15 years ago, when I was high school student

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My TI-89 and its "$4 parallel cable", still working

First, I wanted to use my 7 years old desktop PC with parallel printer port available ... but it stopped to work after 2 minutes of usage. However heavy washing of CPU fan (yeah, "washing" : I put it in the water, then used my hair dryer to dry it) solved this
I then tried to install TILP program, but I was lost in installing GTK (), and link related DLLs ... a real nightmare, and it didn't worked too ... (Sorry Lionel and other TILP authors ! Your soft is great, but its installer is a real piece of crap)

So I tried even older W32Tran8x, a program made under Win9x era.
Except DlPortIo that needed to be updated to work under Windows7, everything worked fine !!!
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W32Tran8x, with its good old nearly wintage Win3.x-like file browser
The simpler the better 
I will try to keep this way of thinking when creating Saturn programs or cartridges

Edit : I successfully installed GTC, an oncalc C compiler. Thank you Pollux (GTC author) for your great work 
It's funny to program on a machine where sizeof(int) equals 2.

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Just moved !

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Classified in : etc, Saturn, Mylife Tags : mylife
During the last weeks, I was busy in preparing stuff in order to move to a new apartment.
And now, I am busy in ordering stuff in this new apartment ^^;

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(Image of me preparing cardboard few hours before mover truck arrives)

During the next weeks/months, I don't plan to do some new Saturn stuff. Instead, I plan to do things related to my new apartment, like emptying cardboards, ordering rooms, selling old/unused things, etc.
By the way, I plan to sell old Saturn games from my collection, including PAL Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining Force III Scenario 1, so please let me know (= add a comment to this article, or send me a message) if you want to purchase something :)
In the case things are sold directly from this homepage, it will be cheaper than in the case I sell them via ebay ;)

PS : I didn't set up internet connection in my new apartment, so I may not be able to answer mail/messages/whatever during the next couple of weeks.

PPS : happy birthday Saturn ! It turned 20 years old on last month ♪

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