Archive for July, 2006
Sunday, July 30th, 2006
Going too easy on Apple and others
What fun; it seems I’ve been upgrading my entire life. After the fog light incident, I did some manic rearranging of my A/V system. I don’t even know if the details are interesting. I don’t have enough hi-def inputs on the HDTV (as I mentioned previously), so I finally spent the $60 on a simple […]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Replacing a Volkswagen New Beetle fog light lens in three easy steps
Edit: this post seems to be fairly popular with people looking for info on replacing these Volkswagen New Beetle fog lights and headlights. I have become an accidental specialist on the subject, so if you have any questions or suggestions, please comment or email me. As a bonus, here’s a VWvortex thread on the subject […]
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
Why does Volkswagen hate me?
No, it’s not just me. The New Beetle has had a broken fog lamp lens since we bought it. No serious problem, except cosmetically. I bought The Lovely One a new fog lamp (you pretty much have to buy the whole assembly, the lens doesn’t seem to be available on its own from most suppliers). […]
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
Dreaming of phones
Hum. I wonder if I can get all of this phone-stuff out of my system all at once in one conclusive post. Probably not. But I dare to try! Gord (who is faster than me) points out in a comment on my previous post that I could just get Nokia’s wireless keyboard. Well yeah, if […]
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
Fun with a phonecam
Pretty nice, huh? That’s with the phone in the Nokia 6682 Matchstick and Rogers sent my way. On the other hand, this was taken with the same camera: Uh oh. The moral of the story is that digital zoom is evil. Well, not really. But this camera is some combination of trying too hard and […]
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Sunday, July 9th, 2006
Chung Charts, the Millar Line, and me
Supafamous pointed out that I got mentioned in the TdF Blog for a goofy joke I’ve been posting to rec.bicycles.racing. Ahem. So there we go. The charts above were done by Robert Chung, a dab hand with statistical visualization and a regular in rbr. You’ll probably have to open the full-sized versions to figure out […]
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Thursday, July 6th, 2006
I said I’d blog incessantly about my new phone…
And so I shall. It’s arrived today. It came with a small memory card, a big memory card, a bluetooth headset, two sets of stereo headphones/headsets, identical except for color, a mini-jack-to-nokia plug adapter, and probably something I forgot. I’m now putting the software on The Lovely One’s laptop, since iSync sync is via Bluetooth […]
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
Twenty One Questions
I’ve been thinking lately. Here’s an update. -I just wrote–well, mostly The Lovely One wrote–a few hundred “tips” for “Divas” and “Playas.” I suppose the politic thing to do would be to talk about how interesting it was (the contractor may or may not read this blog), but in truth it was a weird experience. […]