Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
Located on the tire’s sidewall, this “snowflake on a mountain” symbol means the tire is specifically designed for use in severe snow conditions.
Tires marked “M + S” (mud and snow) are “all-season” tires. Don’t buy these, they don’t work.
Side fact: Quebec is the only province, where winter tires are required by law. Your car must have tires with this symbol.
(there’s a nerd joke in here somewhere, about how the tire is also marked with the upload symbol…)
Set up an assembly line the other night, made these 30. The sidebar is the essence of a blog.
There’s an accompanying spreadsheet, each one links to a specific post.
Separated them into 5 topics: Cars, Lifestyle, and Security, TIFWGAL.com, and Food.
Each topic will have it’s own area to your right, and the images will rotate through YES rotating sidebar art; that’s been 3 years on the want-for-my-blog list.
Some of these you’ve seen before, from the old blog design.
The other side of the sidebar.
There’s another spreadsheet, of individual sidebars to make too. Like, my printing, favourite videos, this week’s car….
Most excited to make the badge-collage one: the Cars section, broken down by auto manufacturer. I’m betting 75% of all badges have been blogged about.
Up early pounding the keyboard, cleared next week’s column (About hiring a car during the holidays), and made a collage for this week’s (The 6 levels of Features).
Then I filmed a video, “A Quick Tour of my Car”… but with a cameraman (my editing guy).
I have cameraman anxiety, like, sure I have 300+ videos online… that I filmed all alone.
Having other people around throws me off my system, I tanked it a couple times over the fall with Motoring TV.
So to ease into it, I made the video topic something I’ve done hundreds of times.. get in my Jetta and drive to Cherry Beach.
Same old car, same old route I’ve taken to make 15+ videos there.
Yup I know, jogging pants and ponytail, but, deadlines trump hair & makeup.
Then off the footage went, and next time I see it, it will have taken the shape of a rough edit, without me ever opening Final Cut. I guess the happy feeling that creates, is the trade off for the cameraman anxiety.
Today flew by fast eh. Then I cooked dinner, but forgot to take photo proof (macaroni & cheese).
And donated to Wikipedia. Never been a fan of free #KeepItFree
Tomorrow, I have a lot of auto writing due, plus a meeting that’ll eat the afternoon, and it’s Car Swap Day (Ford Fiesta), and taxes UGH (I don’t mind paying the taxes, it’s the doing them I don’t like, so boring).
See you online.
SSID – service set identifier
Big mystery solved eh, eye roll.
It’s like, a snobby way of asking the WiFi network name… “oh Clarence, what’s your SSID dahling?” *tea cup pinky*
When securing your WiFi network use WPA2 (never WEP). Then hide the name, don’t broadcast it, “cloak your network”, practice security through obscurity.
How to do that, here: How to Change your Router Password
288 hp & 295 lb·ft
0 – 100km/h in 3.7 seconds
$110,000 -ish
390 km range
2,700 lbs
Rear mid-engine, rear wheel drive
Code name: DarkStar
2008 – 2012, built in California
Based on a Lotus Elise
I haven’t driven a Tesla so can’t say much, but do know that, all that torque is never bad.
