My ’02 Nissan Altima, which I’ve loved having for almost 8 years, has a nasty little problem.
When the catalytic converter starts to go, it throws catalyst back up into the engine. This happens usually after the warranty mileage, and the cat doesn’t throw a code until WAY too late. In the meantime, the only symptom is increased oil consumption until the engine is beyond repair. Now my $5k Blue Book Altima needs a $5k engine, and it’ll happen again at any time, even if the rest of the car holds up.
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First post made directly from iPhone WordPress app. Watching CNN coverage of Iran election fallout.
I don’t know whether the election reults are accurate or not. But once the government started responding to peaceful protest and questions with violence and oppression, they lost their legitimacy.
“The consent of the governed” is not a requirement to have leaders elected with a simple majority.
Obama us doing the right thing here. This is not our fight.
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I’ve said may times that if we hope to save the Internet as a free and open resource, we need to democratize the server. Your “MySpace” really isn’t yours unless it’s running on your own hardware.
Opera Unite (http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2009/06/16/) is an application that claims to do just this–provide people an easy way to run a web server on their own machine, allowing them to install “services” on that server for chat, sharing photos, etc.
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Now, for your convenience and amusement, my tweets will appear in digest form here on the blog, and my new blog posts will be advertised on my Twitter page.
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UP: great 3D, tear-jerker love movie, but very good. Squirrel!
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Off to Home Depot. I can’t remember how many times I’ve been this week.
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Btw, tell your friends! Charming 2⁄1 historic English cottage, great access to downtown, Lamar, mall… $82000. Steal, appraised for $100k!
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One trip to home depot. One trip to Lowes. One trip to la cantina for some texmex… Now we’re ready to start.
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Nap, tile, eat, movie, then retouch the rest of my SF shoot photos. I guess that covers my day unless I think of something incredibly witty.
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I could swear one of the songs this morning reminds me of a Bruce Springsteen song. Some lyric ending with “in this city”
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