Monthly Archives: May 2008

Google Reader

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So in the past couple years RSS has exploded and brought with it things like podcasting and the like. The problem is that it is easy to have a ton of RSS feeds to keep track of. You can add them to your browser, a dedicated RSS reader, or even some mail clients. The problem I was running into was that I had almost 60 feeds that I kept track of and some of them would easily have 30 posts per day. Keeping track of them between multiple computers was getting to be a big hassle. I had to remember to add a feed to all the computers I used and then had to “read” them on all the computers and remember which ones I had already read. It was a pain.

Then I discovered Google Reader. It is web based and easy to use much like all the other google stuff out there. It also gave me one place to go to read all the RSS feeds and it remembers which ones I have already read.

Weird car thing

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So Bridgit has been complaining of an oil smell when she stops in the Caviler. I drove it today and noticed the same thing. I opened the hood expecting a leak and instead the oil fill cap was just gone, vanished. I swear I put it back when I changed the oil last. The smell has only been for a month or so….weird.

Auto Jerks has a replacement thats pretty cheap so I will pick one up tomorrow, and do oil changes.

On a side note I have been using synthetic oil in the cars because it is better for them, and I can go way longer between changes. Less changes means the oil ends up being cheaper (even though the oil is more expensive per QT) and its also better for the environment. I have been doing about 10k miles between changes instead of the standard 3k. Some say you can go up to 50k with synthetic.

Being sick sucks

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Last Friday-Monday I had a fever, allergies flaring, and soreness/acheing. Tylenol and claritin were able to get it at least partially under control. Towards the end I threw Belladonna into the mix for some hippie-opathic/real medicine double attack action.

Yesterday I felt better and that is great. I managed to get the lawn mowed for the first time in two weeks. Today our midwife is coming over for a prenatal, but I was hoping to do oil changes tonight.

It is nice that I will be better for the weekend. Abe is coming into town briefly, we haven't seen him since the holidays. I also aim to get some paddling in and we are doing my birthday stuff with my family since they will be in Pittsburgh next weekend for Annie's Law School graduation (Congrats!).

The gauntlet has been thrown.

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So this week it was announced that the Nissan GT-R (remember the Skyline) whooped it up and did 7:29 around the 'Ring. That is the second fastest time of any production car. The fastest being the Pagani Zonda F at 7:27. As you can probably tell by the name it's a fast/expensive car.

Well today GM has decided to uproot the new occupant for #2. The Chief Engineer of the Corvette says that they new Corvette ZR1 will be able to beat that time.