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Author: Dave
He was born in Canada, but currently lives in Boulder, CO up in Boulder Heights.
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Galápagos
Cassie and I got back from the Galápagos islands on November 24th. We took, on four cameras, 15 600 pictures over the 14 days we were in Ecuador for our (belated) honeymoon.We were on board the Tip Top IV with Galapagos Travel for 11 days, and visited 13 islands.
We distilled these pictures and videos down to ~2000 for flickr.
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Stephen Colbert and Alicia Keys
This is an update to a previous post covering the new process for setting up a dedicated server running Ubuntu server edition connected to a Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station console via a serial port. There are a few changes because of the architecture of the wview program changing databases from MySQL to SQLite. The machine was an IBM Aptiva 2198Â (PIII) with 512MB of RAM, an upgraded Ethernet card and 250G internal hard disk.
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Sony’s new gizmo
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Music that makes you dumb
Neat article…. Like freakonomics, it’s not clear whether it’s a cause or effect, but enjoy! (SAT scores are X axis)
Well, I figured I’d put in a helpfully named post to solve the problem that other folks have reported. Mahalo incorrectly lists only the obvious solution (make sure these settings are true before you implement the solution below)
It is NOT a settings issue, it is a bug in Firefox (I’m using various versions of 3.x, currently 3.0.11).
Symptoms: Regardless of your security settings, all cookies get deleted every time Firefox is closed.
Cause: The cookies.sqlite database has become corrupted. (older versions of FF use a cookies.txt file)
Solution: Close Firefox, find cookies.sqlite and delete it (in my case, in C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[some obscure name]\cookies.sqlite under Windows Vista x64, SP2).
That’s it.
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Demon door locks on a Volkwagen
Well, I’ve learned a lot about car maintenance already on the Jetta… I changed my oil, air filter, oil filter last weekend, and my wheels this weekend.
And predictably, things are starting to go wrong.
I have the Mark IV Volkwagen Demon Door Locks problem. The local mechanic said I’d have to replace the entire lock assembly for 2+ hours labour and $190 parts…. So I took a rubber mallet to the edge of the door (listed as a temporary fix) and sure enough…. Works like a charm. I know I’ll have to take it apart and resolder per the link above, but for the time being, I’m happy, and cheap.
So next project today is getting rid of my squealing brakes…. The local mechanic couldn’t hear it at all, this is probably why. I’m going to try to remove and reassemble my brake pads and grease them.
Of course, I didn’t mention that maybe pressure-washing the wheel had a deleterious effect on this noise.