Power steering

I’ve made a number of changes since last year. I decided to go with power steering.  I was a little concerned about the difficulty of turning the stock de-powered rack.  I had been considering getting a remanufactured rack from Autozone.  I just decided that I would try the power…

Mushy brakes

After go-karting for the first time, some things have cropped up as a problem. Probably the most important thing is that the brakes felt mushy and got more mushy after just a little bit of use. I’ll have to go back and bleed them again and see if I…

Go-Kart

I’m finally building again!  As of May 8th, 2005 (Mothers Day) the car is a go-kart!  Woohoo! The last year has kept me quite busy and I’ve had little time to work on it.  About a year ago I had some guys come over to help try to…

Hello?

Ok, that didn't quite work the way I expected...I'm not finding a way to publish from Hello without sending a pic.…

Hello test

I'm trying out Googles semi-recent acquisition of Hello. Hello's kind of an IM type system except it's not. The main purpose of Hello is for sharing pics with others through chat sessions. It has a couple of other cool features though. They claim the…

New Journal

Holy smokes.  Almost a year since the last update.  Lot’s been  happening but not much with the cobra.  I’m starting a new blog for the  journal so this one will only be used for archival. Update:Â  This is the new blog…

Apple in a Cisco world

I'm a network engineer by trade and one of the things that I absolutely must have in a laptop is console access. This isn't a big deal aside from it being difficult to find a laptop with a serial port anymore. IOGear makes a very nice…