Flawed EPA mileage reporting

We are looking at buying a mid-sized SUV, so I started doing a bit of research. I found two models, both with similar EPA gas mileage numbers. I then found out that one of them, the Nissan Pathfinder, requires premium gasoline. All the car sites just give the EPA numbers, and don’t [...]

Hello Wordpress!

Blogger stopped supporting blogs published to non-blogger sites (like wymore.net) on 5/1/10, so I moved the blogs to Wordpress. It’s amazing how much more powerfull and flexible Wordpress is compared to Blogger. The “Wymore Family Blogs” page that shows the latest post on each of our blogs is actually a fifth Wordpress blog, [...]

Sunday Stuff

Cleaned the garage. Helped Trish clean the basement. Made a website for Tricia’s daycare.

All in a days work.

Actually, making the website was pretty interesting. I used NetObjects Fusion 7 to create the site. I had received a complementary copy of NOF7 a while ago, so I thought I would give it [...]

Too big, too big!

Standing over the shoulder of someone trying to load my blog, I thought “wow, this thing is way too huge!” With over 10 megs of images, the blog takes a horrific amount of time to load. So now, when clicking on my link in the “Family Journal” page, you’ll be taken to a [...]

I knew it!

When I saw the Segway, I thought “Come on, how hard can it be?” After all, the guy who taught my Saturday Academy Robotics class when I was in High School, Neldon Wagner, had built a two legged walking robot. It seemed to me that the Segway is just a two motor platform [...]

Rockin' C++ routine o' the day

Wow! strtoc! What a function!

Sunday Tomfoolery

So much for progress: I spent a good part of the day trying to get my video capture card, an ATI TV Wonder VE, to work. I guess if you don’t use it for a while the drivers go bad. Anyway, I finally had to move it to my PC to get it [...]

Hey, there's our house!

Just found our house using GlobeXplorer:

July 2nd, 2001

The image on the right shows our approximate property lines. Note the car in the driveway for scale. The grey building in the lower center is the detached garage, and the white building next to it is one of the two 8′x12′ sheds on the property. [...]

We’re off the grid (sort-of)

Yesterday night I installed our Internet-based telephone system. Basically, there’s a box (the ATA-186) that plugs into the router, and then the phone plugs into the box. The phone works the same as it did plugged into the phone jack. There are several providers of this service – we went with Vonage, [...]

It’s Alive!

I guess now that the journal is up and running I should actually enter something into it. Getting this to work was (for me) quite an accomplishment – in the process of getting this going, I learned a bit of XML and XSL, how to use the XMLDOM engine, and a bit of JavaScript.

The [...]