Author: Chris

A post over on JK on the run got me to wondering what my traffic is on this site, especially since I went to a .org domain name from the tzo subdomain I was using before. Here’s what webalizer tells me: While I would have predicted a jump…going from 500 to  20,000 hits per month…

Yesterday I had to take a quick day trip to Chicago for a sales meeting with a partner.  Since the meeting was downtown and I was arriving and deprating during rushhour, I decided to take the train from O’Hare to the meeting.  I have taken the train several times and it is always very relable…

On a tip from Chris Pirillo’s blog, I downloaded the Windows Live Writer (Beta) and am writing up this post from the new tool.  The install was very easy. I double clicked the install MSI, pointed it at my blog URL, supplied my username and password and that was it. I continue to try to…

I updated my PSP over the weekend to v2.80 of the firmware.  I had heard they added video casting support, but couldn’t find any documentation about the formats that were supported.  After searching around a bit, I decided to just try a few feeds, and sure enough Sony seems to support the iPod video RSS…

Had my second fill-up this morning.  Much better MPG this time: 46.4.  That could be due to a number of factors: I didn’t run the AC nearly as much this time (the weather was nicer last week on the way home each day). I filled up this tank vs. the dealer on the first tank,…

So in addition to a small (unplanned) upgrade to my home mahcine, my new work machine finally came in this week.  It is a a new Intel Core Duo Tablet PC from HP, the TC4400.  It is a more traditional style tablet PC (a so called “convertible”) than my previous TC1100 (a slate).  I was…

I’m really happy with my JD 3120, but it would be fun to find an old AC to run this project on. Allis Chalmers “G” Electric Cultivating and Seeding Tractor Conversion Project

Well the machine I built about 2 years ago decided to not work this past weekend, so I had to make an emergency buy at NewEgg that was delviered today.  I had to get a new processor and wanted to use the MB I already had, but as it turns out they were running a…

Being a new Diesel car owner, I have taken a small interest in the emerging discussion about Biofuels.  If the shit hits the fan, it is somehow strangely comforting that I could grow my own gas on the few spare acres on the back of our farm.  Of course, if the shit does hit the…