Mango at 6 weeks ago and now
August 29th, 2008 by ktula
Mango at seven weeks old.
Mango at 13 weeks old.
The most obvious differences: Mango’s snout has gotten longer and his ears are bigger.
Archive for August, 2008
Relaxing Friday with Mango
August 29th, 2008 by ktula
I spent part of Saturday night and Sunday morning working so i get to take today off. By taking today off, it saves Smelly a few trips between work and her condo since i will be taking care of Mango.
Mango spooked by the construction noise coming from one of my backyard neighbors.
I took Mango for a walk around the neighborhood. For whatever reason, the first part of the walk along Hudson St has been the hardest. There is something along that portion of the walk that Mango does not like. I guess whatever that he’s having a problem with, he just has to get used to it. On our way on Dawson St walking toward California Ave, there are a few patches of healthy-looking lawn. Mango loves to walk on these few patches of grass. Mango took care of his business right there, both #1 and #2 simultaneously.
A few posts ago, i mentioned that Mango was losing his puppy hair. A coarser and longer hair has started taking over, beginning from his tail on. Other than his head, there are only a few small patches of puppy hair on his body.
You can see Mango no longer has any puppy hair on his back.
I spent part of the morning training Mango on the sit, stay, down commands. Mango is still not able or unwilling to go “down” on command, without having a treat or pretending to have a treat in my hand. He seems to be able to “stay” better now, at least he can remain sitting when i move backward away from him with a treat in my hand.
Mango in his donut bed.
Mango had been doing quite well with not peeing in the house. When i was eating my lunch, Mango walked near the closed backyard door. Because he was not sitting while facing the door, i did not think that he wanted to pee. No more than a few seconds later, Mango peed almost right in front of me. I had to lift him off the floor and put him in the backyard while he was still peeing. The pee pattern on the floor clearly indicated what i did. There was a big pool of pee and then there was a trail of pee all the way to the door 
Waking up from his afternoon nap.
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Jonathan Cook: Israel’s Outposts Seal Death of Palestinian State
August 26th, 2008 by ktula
Israel’s Outposts Seal Death of Palestinian State
by Jonathan Cook
August 26, 2008
antiwar.com
Yehudit Genud hardly feels she is on the frontier of Israel’s settlement project, although the huddle of mobile homes on a wind-swept West Bank hilltop she calls home is controversial even by Israeli standards.
Despite the size and isolation of Migron, a settlement of about 45 religious families on a ridge next to the Palestinian city of Ramallah, Mrs. Genud’s job as a social worker in West Jerusalem is a 25-minute drive away on a well-paved road.
Mrs. Genud, 28, pregnant with her first child, points out that Migron has parks, children’s playgrounds, a kindergarten, a daycare center, and a synagogue, all paid for by the government – even if the buildings are enclosed by a razor-wire fence, and her husband, Roni, has to put in overtime as the settlement’s security guard.
From her trailer, she also has panoramic views not only of Ramallah but of the many communities hugging the slopes that gently fall away to the Jordan Valley.
Long-established Palestinian villages are instantly identifiable by their homes’ flat roofs and the prominence of the tall minarets of the local mosques. Interspersed among them, however, are a growing number of much newer, fortified communities of luxury villas topped by distinctive red-tiled roofs.
These are the Jewish settlements that now form an almost complete ring around Palestinian East Jerusalem, cutting it off from the rest of the West Bank and destroying any hope that the city will one day become the capital of a Palestinian state.
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Dyson DC24 sucks (literally)
August 25th, 2008 by ktula
The Dyson DC24 upright vacuum cleaner sucks. It really sucks big time. And that’s a good thing. I grew up using canister style of vacuum cleaners so i am normally not a fan of upright vacuum cleaners. I find them heavy, bulky and unsightly. My sister bought a Dyson DC18 recently and after borrowing from her for a test run at my place, i was amazed at the amount of dust it removed from my house.
Mango has been shedding his puppy hair lately so i am finding my old Eureka canister vacuum cleaner not quite up to the task of removing all of his loose hair. After reading some good reviews on Dyson’s DC24, the smallest model in dyson’s line of upright vacuum cleaners, i decided to make use of an expired 20% discount coupon at Bed Bath and Beyond for the vacuum cleaner.
Dyson DC24 vacuum cleaner.
The DC24 is light and quite easy to use. It is still too big to use under my bed but the detachable wand and hose works just fine. Less than a week ago, i had just vacuumed my house with the Eureka. I am still quite amazed at the amount of stuff the Dyson is able to remove from my house.
Clear bin filled with dust, hair and other goodies.
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Itchy and scratchy
August 25th, 2008 by ktula
Mango has been scratching himself since he arrival home the first time on July 19th. I could not figure out what is causing him to scratch. Initially, i thought it was the Rosemary plants in the backyard. On the first few days home, Mango was going in and out of the Rosemary bushes. Even after fencing off the Rosemary plants, Mango was still scratching himself.
About two weeks ago, Mango started to shed his puppy coat. He appeared to be scratching himself quite a bit more than usual. So i decided to have Mango bathed on the Friday when i was working from home. I called around all the nearby Pet grooming places but they were all booked up. Finally, i gave up and decided to bathe him myself. I found a nearby do-it-yourself bathhouse for pets called The Wash Dog. At this facility, shampoo, bath towels and the very important power dryer.
Mango looking wary before being bathed (picture taken with my iPhone camera).
Oh boy…there is no escape (picture taken with my iPhone camera).
This was the first time that i have given Mango a bath. He had been bathed by the breeder in the past but the breeder was not able to give him a bath during his daycare that week. Surprisingly, Mango did not put up a fight when he was being sprayed with luke warm water.
Mango almost completely soaked (picture taken with my iPhone camera).
Get me outta here! (picture taken with my iPhone camera)
The next thing i did was to massage some shampoo into his wet hair. The breeder told me in order to loosen a Shiba’s shed hair, the massaging process is important. Then i attempted to express Mango’s anal glands. I was not sure if i did it correctly. What expelled out of Mango’s anus did not seem to be like what i saw when the breeder was demonstrating a bath to me.
Mango after being rinsed (picture taken with my iPhone camera).
After rinsing the lather off Mango, i placed Mango back on the grooming table and used the pretty powerful dryer to blow dry him. Because Shibas are doubly-coated with the outer coat being stiff and straight and the undercoat soft and thick, i was informed that a normal blow dryer is not powerful enough get the loose hair out. I was not sure how much loose hair i got rid off but when i got done, i could feel Mango’s hair all over me.
Looking good and smelling clean after the bath (picture taken with my iPhone camera).
The bath did not seem to help with Mango’s scratching. In fact, it may have gotten worse. On the following Monday, Smelly took Mango to the vet to have his scratching problem looked at. His stool analysis came back negative - no parasite was found. The vet gave Mango an unknown shot and told Smelly to give Mango half a table of Benadryl every 12 hours.
Something in my backyard must be causing him to scratch. I am still going through the process of elimination to find out what is the culprit.
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Mango’s graduation day
August 24th, 2008 by ktula
Mango’s puppy training certificate
This post is a week old. Last Saturday, August 16th 2008, was a special day for Mango. That was the day Mango graduated from Diane Rich’s puppy training class!
We are not slacking off though. We enjoyed training with Diane so much that Smelly promptly enrolled Mango in another set of private lessons with her.
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No Wi-Fi in iPhone?
August 23rd, 2008 by ktula
I woke up this morning and found myself staring at my iPhone with no Wi-Fi signal. On rebooting my iPhone, the Wi-Fi option in Settings was completely greyed out. It took another reboot to fix it. Weird.
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iPhone upgraded to firmware 2.0.2
August 20th, 2008 by ktula
My iPhone remains unlocked after updating it with iTunes to firmware 2.0.2. Naturally, it was no longer jailbroken but i found a way to jailbreak it using a new tool called QuickPwn by the iPhone Dev Team. This is what i did:
- Updated my 2.0.1 iPhone to 2.0.2 using iTunes.
- Installed iTunes 7.7.1 and QuickPwn on a VMware virtual environment running Windows XP on my Mac Pro.
- Transferred firmware 2.0.1 image to the Windows XP VM.
- Followed the steps as detailed in a post on iClarified.com. The post describes jailbreaking firmware 2.0.1 but this is exactly what i had to do to jailbreak 2.0.2 iPhone.
One of the first few things i did after jailbreaking my iPhone was to get a customized theme. My current favorite is fabiano1987’s iWood Realize theme:
The icons for the App Store and Cydia look out of place because this theme currently do not have icons for those apps yet.
Update
The 2.0.2 firmware “update” offers absolutely no improvement when launching apps.