I had a really crappy day at work, so I went to tinker with my Ghia to take my mind off it.
I readjusted the valves (they were all too loose), set the carb’s idle air screw properly, checked my points, and adjusted my timing. And let me advise anyone working on ACVWs: when you take [...]

I got my order from KGP&R today, and was all set to mount the bumper when I realized that I forgot to get the bumper bracket-to-body seals.
Stupid crappy me.
I also discovered the limit of my driving distance at night; around 15 miles. After that, the car won’t start because of the bad generator. I had [...]

My incredibly lame Actiontec DSL router went nuts last night. It started with some slow connections, and I thought it had freaked out and dropped the connection again, so I reset it. It came back, but I was getting around 30% packet loss, and no more than 20kb/sec throughput. Even when I was just pinging [...]

Today, I was faced with a problem I try to avoid at all costs: a 3-column layout of a list of items (not a full-page layout). This is the sort of thing where people usually say “stick it in a table and be done with it,” but that seemed like a cop-out to me, so [...]

Just as was rumored, Apple will switch to Intel processors, starting in 2006. While the Mac zealots were predictably upset, this is actually an extremely intelligent move from Apple.