Month: July 2005

  • Now fortified with advertisements

    Visitors to my home page will notice that I’m now showing ads, provided by the Google AdSense service. I don’t know how well this will work out for me, with only a few thousand visits per month (but steadily climbing). But hey, it’s free, and only cost me a little time to set it up.…

  • Smart Car impressions

    I’ve been driving Sanjay’s Smart Car for quite a while now. I’ve formed some impressions.

  • 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…