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Какой странный год. Я и забыл что это високосный год пока мама не напомнила.

Весь этот год был гонкой за временем. Ни на что не хватало времени, много чего было мучительно трудно довести до конца. А некоторые задумки и вообще были заброшены, если не навсегда, то надолго.

The whole idea of Black Friday was quite mystical to me before I tried it myself. Mostly it was brought up to me by Eugene B., since which time I have really gotten into it, not because saving all that money could change my life in any way, but because it was just simply cool to save up so much.

Today installed spoiler and went for a small photoshoot. Spoiler isn't 100% done yet though. Need to hook brake light as the STi plug and WRX plug isn't compatible. Actually WRX doesn't seem to have any plugs.

Почти обычная Subaru STi, подготовленная компанией Crawford Performance, тест-пилот — Кен Блок.

As I mentioned before, I bought brand new OEM '08 impreza/outback roofrack. Today I finally got around to installing it. Everything went extremely smooth until the point when I had to secure racks on my roof.

Today got my K&N 33-2304 air intake filter delivered, purchased from amazon. Recently I glanced at my OEM one and it's nasty. I suspect that's mostly from Nevada driving. Sometime this weekend I'll throw new one in.

Another second great find on craigslist is winter tyres. I found a guy who works for famous American tyre sales dealer and the deal is pretty much there is discontinued model of Bridgestone Blizzak. Brand new winter tyre mounted and balanced on the rip for $300. How can it get any cheaper than that? Really best deal ever. You can find same set of Blizzaks on craigslist used that are more expensive. So I am very happy!

On Saturday, I decided to end the upgrade wave with finishing off short throw shifter. It ended up being quite a to install as it took some effort to remove c-clip. Then when I installed new shift lever, I forgot that that lower part of the level is adjustable too. So second, fourth and rear gear simply wouldn't work. But finally I figured out that it's adjustable. Overall quite happy, may decrease short throw as it's too rough right now.

As a follow up to my post-install COBB springs concern, I contacted Dave from nasioc who owns same car with same springs and asked him whether he experiences same noise as do I. I was happy to find out he has same "symptoms". It's kind of good and not at same time. Good because that means everything is fine with my install. Bad because I don't think I'll get used to the noise as he did. I will quote him:

Amazing how far car manufacturer will go to prevent its cars from so-called debadging. On various models there are different approaches Subaru tries to prevent people from debadging. On my previous car they had an nice Subaru logo on trunk lid in a place where I believed it was ugly. When you removed it, there appeared two holes behind it. This time it was a different fight.

Supposedly I live in California now, according to some rumours. Kind of wish these rumours were true after travelling coast to coast. But no, I still live in Nashua, New Hampshire. My summer ended the day before yesterday, when I hit my exit off of Everett Turnpike.

Everyone keeps talking about Chrome these days and how great it is. I checked it out and I loved it too. But why don't developers keep talking about Internet Explorer 6? USA Today the other day had a huge article on Internet Explorer 8. But why didn't they try to explain to readers why IE6 should be abandoned? That is what is frustrating.

And I am convinced I am not alone wondering about when we (developers) will stop creating separate stylesheets for IE6 and forget it as a nightmare.

A whlie ago I posted how to feed specific .css file to Internet Explorer 8 only. That was during IE8 RC1. Now it's IE8 Beta 2. Microsoft finally released Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit. Below another official way to feed css to IE8 only:

<!--[if gte IE 8]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="css.css" /><![endif]-->