Archive for September, 2006
Driving my M3 at GIR
This year I bought a Canon camcorder and a video mount for my car. I wanted this so I could record my progress at car club (BMWCCA, PCA, SCCA) high performance driving events. I had one of my best sessions yet this year at Gateway International Raceway (9 July 2006) in my 2005 E46 M3 [...]
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Perceptions of the FIA
The racing news site grandprix.com reported on a poll of 5500 fans by the German website F1total.com that reveals 50.35% of them believe the FIA manipulates the Formula 1 world championship. They later reported the FIA contacted them to point out that a poll of 23,710 pitpass.com fans show 54.22% do not believe the Renault [...]
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It’s been a while since I created stylesheets for transforming XML using XSLT, but I came across a problem that I don’t remember solving before. I am using XSLT to transform some XML documents where the schema has gone through considerable changes. For the most part I traversing the DOM tree and generate new XML [...]
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Super Automatic Coffee Makers
I love good coffee. I want decent coffee in the morning, that I can make on my own at home. I don’t stop at Starbucks in the morning on the way to work or anything like that. All the drip makers I’ve ever tried suck. I mean they really, really suck, and are incapable of [...]
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