Tin Foil Soldier

Howstuffworks “How Tires Work”
What All the Numbers Mean
A nice break down of what all the different numbers and code letters on a tire mean.  I am looking for winter tires / wheels and I always forget what all the ##/##\## whatever means.

UKFF > How much does a DVD weigh?
5 for a pound
Without packaging materials (2 disc DVD) 1st class - approx 70p
10 for a quid
British people have such funny words for money.  And I also think its funny that people do the conversion for certain “units” to other units.  Like, it weighs about 70p (the [...]

We Love The Environment: Borders Forces Customer To Take Plastic Bag, Claims It Is “Proof Of Purchase”
BY NAMILIA AT 07/31/07 11:50 AM
I think the whole thing is petty. She’s taking environmentalism too far for blowing this so out of proportion, and the cashier was bogus for her responses as well. A plastic bag isn’t the [...]

abc7.com: Strike Is On: Talks End, Writers Guild Walks Picket Lines
The big fight is over money — the writers want more of it, and the producers don’t want to give it up. Writers specifically want a bigger piece of DVD sales, as well as TV shows and movies sold over the Internet.
Meanwhile many of the [...]

Teenagers who refuse to work face on the spot fines - Times Online
TEENAGERS who refuse to work, attend training or go to school are to be issued with on the spot fines under government proposals. Any who still fail to comply would then be taken to court where they could face further penalties.
The measures are [...]

Amazon.com: Saeco 30013 Aroma Traditional Espresso Machine, Black: Kitchen & Dining
Amazon.com: Breville 800ESXL Commercial 15-Bar Triple-Priming Die-Cast Espresso Machine: Kitchen & Dining

Amazon.com: Saeco A-SP-SV Spidem Villa Super-Automatic Espresso Machine, Silver: Kitchen & Dining
Newegg.com - Salton FES15B 5c Pump Esprosso Maker
I want an espresso machine, but I have no idea how to pick one. There [...]

Tin Foil Soldier
Time on this site is apparently never right, but since I now know its an issue, and how to fix it, I will try to keep it right.

Daylight saving time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Don’t forget, messed up DST 2007 happens again in 2 hours.
Not nearly the headache that it was in the spring @ work, but still, did we really save any energy or whatever?
Wikipedia says
in 2005, the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association and the National Association of Convenience Stores successfully lobbied [...]

Review: Eye-Fi Adds Wi-Fi to Almost Any Digital Camera
The Eye-Fi. It’s an SD memory card that adds Wi-Fi to any camera. Plus the free Eye-Fi service supports automatic uploads to 20 different web photo sites (like Flickr) as well as a computer on your home network.
My “Verdict:” would have been more like “frickin awesome.”
its a [...]

warpedvisions.org » How to tell if a web page sucks
So, you can’t tell a crappy website from a great one?
A flowchart.  I wish it was a vector graphic so I could enlarge and print it to hang up.

John R. Durant’s WebLog : NET helpmsg
“Another installation is already in progress. Complete that installation before proceeding with this install.”Cool. The information is there, but not very easily found. What would be better is for Microsoft (us) to surface the information more readily in the UI! I can guarantee my father will never type these [...]

#5284 (Editing & Posting Comments Causes Errors) - WordPress Trac - Trac
Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ’sanitize_url’
I had the same error when posting a comment, and bbbburns had it when trying to view my RSS feeds.  Apparently I had an incomplete upgrade for my formatting.php file in wp-includes.  [...]