Archive for August, 2004
I fixed the car this morning. I replaced the spark plugs, spark plug wires, distributor cap, and rotor without a whole lot of trouble. The biggest problem was removing the rubber boots from the previous spark plug wires. I had to borrow some long tweezers from the lab and use a pair [...]
A few days ago, I helped a couple in the apartment building with their computer. A week or so prior, they asked if I knew anything about computers and if I could provide them with some kind of boot disk. I grabbed a Win98SE emergency boot disk on a floppy I had in [...]
I havn’t been posting lately because I’ve been busy with work. I was able to get quite a bit of spectroscopy done the past few weeks and I am analyzing the data now. It looks well superficially. Under closer scrutiny, I am confident that it will be a comprehensive study of our [...]
I finally was able to get the parts, so I am going to change the spark plugs, spark plug wires, distributor cap, and rotor in my car tomorrow morning. I am hoping that every goes as planned and the car runs much better then.
I recently upgraded my main machine with: a PCI IDE card, to improve hard disk drive access speed; a Firewire/USB2.0 PCI card, to be able to connect to more peripherals; and a DVD+/-RW drive in an external enclosure, mostly for backing up data filling up our hard drives.
Beige G3 300 AV Tower – [...]