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I decided not to wait till tomorrow. Went and had the car washed then used lower grade (least sticky) 3M masking tape to temporarily wrap up front end.

Something I forgot to do when driving cross country is to protect the front end of my car. Driving through Nevada desert particularly was rough, entire front end is covered with bugs.

Tomorrow will be doing my first oil change. I will see if they have some sort of temporary protection. If not, I'll use old "vwvortex method"—3M masking tape.

I see in google analytics many queries to carputer diagram, something I've removed, but just now decided it may be useful to some people.

Here is carputer diagram version 1.1:

THE END. Good-bye WRXTEAR.

Hello Untitled.

Foreword: it isn't obvious in the context — this cable is to used in the car, hooked up to car amplifier RCA cable, so it's thickness isn't a big deal.

After last time I split cable apart and soldered back together, it lasted a couple of days only if that. So I ordered a new one and opened up old one again. Changed a bit how I do old one and keep brand new two dollar one as a backup.

I got Nextel mobile broadband card because I really need it this summer. I think it's quite affordable and really worth the price for someone in my position. Got it faily quickly, was shipped within two days of the order. There was quite a bit of a hassle because I shipped it to a different address than my credit card billing address. But after few phone calls and maybe around 30 min time wasted, the order finally went through.

Activation took only two minutes or so. First impressions, pretty quick enough or me. Below are some speed tests.

This code snippet will force your ie6 clients to understand min-width, pretty cool hack.

element.style{
_width:expression(((document.compatMode && document.compatMode=='CSS1Compat') ? document.documentElement.clientWidth : document.body.clientWidth) < 660 ? "660px" : "auto");
}

Note that I prepend '_' before 'width', that ensures that only ie6 will bother to try to interpret that command, other normal browsers will ignore that.

Some time ago a great person I worked with gave us a speach on stress, I can't recall the name of his presentation. But somewhere in it he mentioned Twilight Zone “A Nice Place to Visit” and only now did I get a chance to view this and it's quite interesting and so true.

The thing broke again. I know how to solder and all, but with this thing one has to work with sizes as small as a quarter of millimiter. I guess I didn't do a perfect job. It still works, but I have to press on a hacked up bundle of wires, or put it under something heavy enough (eg. map, book) so the it's tight, then it works. Otherwise half of the side doesn't work, i.e. only left or right depending how RCA cable is plugged in.

My hacked cable adapter broke today. One of the three wires on one of the plugs broke off. Since I am not home I don't have access to any tools. First thing handy was hot glue gun, but that didn't work.

Today I ordered Casio EX-Z1080GY from buy.com. I lived without camera since I bought my iPhone, that's when I sold my S3 IS. I finally decided to get a decent and inexpensive camera to just have in the pocket. iPhone camera has failed .

Since a switch to iPhone 2.0 I was happy 100% minus one tiny issue. One of the most useful application I had on iPhone 1.1.4 is not working on 2.0. This application is NemusSync.

For now I figured another way to do this manually while NemusSync is not available for 2.0.

To sync your google calendar with iPhone caledar these are the steps:

My iPhone is now with 2.0 firmware thanks to Pwnage 2.0 tool . I used The Happy Coder's instructions.

Took a little bit more time than previous effort with 1.1.4, but all went smoothly. Most importantly all my calendar events, contacts, and other stuff was restored.

Yet another IE fork. How could it be any different? For those who're getting ready, the code below will work (at least on RC1)

<!--[if IE 8.000]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="css.css" /><![endif]-->