• Dakota Fan problem

    On Monday morning, just as I was beginning the drive home to Waterloo from Ottawa, about six hours in the sweltering heat, I discovered that the blower in my truck had stopped working properly. Between the time I gave the truck to my friend Jeff to drive for a day, and the time I got…

  • Hotlinkers!

    I discovered that many people have been hotlinking images from my site, basically stealing my bandwidth. For some reason, this picture of a beer keg from my homebrewing page is very popular. . I only just noticed this, because the hotlinkers were buried way down in my referrer log, under an avalanche of referrer-spam. For…

  • Bad Linksys WRT54GS failure mode

    I have set up the nested wireless network scheme I wrote about here. The “inner” network is maintained by a new LinkSys WRT54GS wireless router. But I’m seeing an occasional failure on the WRT54GS that displeases me mightily. Sometimes, it gets into a state where the power LED blinks, and the wireless features become unavailable.…

  • Sanjay is smart. So he drives a Smart car.

    Sanjay’s first car, which was delivered to him today. A Smart Fortwo Pure, with only 200km on the odometer. The previous owner won it in some contest, but with a wife and three kids, it wasn’t really a practical vehicle for him. So, he sold it on Ebay. It’s a fun little car to drive,…

  • Behringer Patchbay Labels

    I have added a page to my project-studio pages about how I created labels for my Behringer PX3000 patchbay. I have also provided the MS Word template for the betterment of mankind. That’s just the kind of guy I am. They look pretty good, if I do say so myself…