Here are some new pictures of the dogs. Boojum's gotten pretty big.
I don't use the QWERTY keyboard layout, so when I get a new computer I have to rearrange the keys. I always forget how this is done, so when I got my new MacBook Pro, I took some pictures while I rearranged its keys. Here's a short article with some of those pictures detailing removal and reattachment of the keys on Apple's Pro laptops.
In which I repair the rear brakes, break the front brakes, and move the car to New England where worries of ice necessitate flushing the coolant system.
Lots of big, new parts under the hood. They look great and — surprise, surprise — they actually work!
In honor of 6-6-06, here are some updates on the car's condition.
I've finished cleaning the car, and here are some before and after pictures. Some areas don't look much better, and others show a marked improvement. I'm not going to bother cleaning it anymore because anything more than I've done will just be wasted effort when the repaint rolls around. Which makes me want to repaint it very soon, but that's going to cost much more than the car did, so it's going to have to wait.
My Restoration Guide and Haynes Manual finally arrived, so now I can get working on the mechanics with more confidence. Damn Amazon and their slow-ass free shipping (I ordered them a few days after I got the car).
Update May 4: Added photo of the front seat belts' center loop.
A bunch of little things done that basically sum to zero. Just getting a better idea of what needs to be done in the near future, I guess.
I stripped the car's interior of its carpet today and I vacuumed out all the dirt and cobwebs from the interior and the trunk.
This website proudly offers the first section addition since its inception. I've added an entire section dedicated to documeting the restoration of a 1971 BMW 2002 that I recently rescued from a slow, lonely death on a driveway under the Arizona sun. There's lots of work to do, and I'll have plenty of pictures to share along the way.
Since I don't update this webpage terribly often, I've taken the step of providing an RSS feed for the frontpage here. RSS is a way to check for new content in webpages without having to actually visit the page itself. Of course no one uses these things, but I think a feed is a worthwhile feature for any blog to have. I've been using RSS feeds for a while now to streamline my procrastination, to become more efficient at wasting my time.
You'll find a link to the feed over on the left under the colored navigation links. It simply says "RSS". I'm not using any colorful buttons or cryptic icons to represent it. You'll need a news aggregator to use the feed (I use the free NetNewsWire Lite for the Mac). Alternatively, Firefox and Safari have handy built-in RSS capabilities.
Update: The BMW 2002 section will also be a part of this feed now since it is the most active section on the site.
The alliterative title says it all. I read an article in a recent issue of MAKE Magazine on building a pulsejet engine from some Copper fittings, a glass mason jar, and some Methanol fuel. The result is some cool pictures of fire in a jar.
The Miscellaneous section just got its first post. I've whipped up a walk-through of a nifty LED circuit that I'm using to light up my desktop computer's keyboard at night. Cheap, easy, and works like a charm.
Well, after a monthlong hiatus, the Photography section is chock full of content, piping hot, boiling over. Take your time and savor its abrosial flavor.
After you've done that, click on through some of the many Links I've added.
I'm slowly adding content to the site. The About section is mostly full, and I've got a small start on the Research section. Expect more in the latter, including pictures, soon. The biggest addition comes to the Fractals section; I've added close to two dozen images there. If you really like what you see, be sure to click the Zazzle link and see if there's anything you like available as a print. Zazzle's print quality is pretty good, and all the fractals I have available there can be purchased in enormous sizes (as well as more manageable ones). I'll have the Photography section updated as soon as possible, but in the meantime, you can click the Flickr link there to see many of the photos that I'll be posting.
After a weekend of furious - and often frustrating - hand coding, I've posted the redesign of this site online. I think the CSS is pretty much set in stone at this point, though there are a few formatting tweaks I'd like to make. I'll be slowly adding content over the next few weeks, time permitting. In the meantime, if you see lots of gibberish text on pages, that's a page that is awaiting content. You can think of the gibberish as translating into "under construction". (That text is Lorem ipsum, by the way.)
I've tested the site in Safari 2.0.3, Firefox 1.5 (Mac & Win), Opera 8.02 (Mac & Win), and IE 6 and it appears to render properly in all of those browsers. There may be some problems with the site in IE 5.5, but I don't have that version of IE laying around to test it on. Let me know if you notice something that doesn't look right, including what browser you're using and a screenshot if possible. Also, I haven't done any accessibility testing. So, for example, if you know that you're color blind and have problems reading a page, let me know about that.
