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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Better Place

This week David Pogue did a good story for CBS about Better Place, a company trying to do what I have been talking about for years. This is a modernized version of the old Edison-Ford electric car plan of the 1910s. I hope more car companies join Nissan and Renault in this project. Now is [...]

Double Flat

Today was a beautiful day for a bike ride. It was a warm, sunny day, so all the fair weather cyclists were out. Half way home I had a double flat. A thorn from some brambles cut all the way through several threads in the tire. My first patch didn’t stick. My rubber cement was [...]

Fixing tailgate electrical problems

I finally fixed the electrical problems in the tailgate of my Subaru Impreza. Four wires were broken where they pass from the frame of the car to the frame of the tailgate. I tried to fix the problem a while ago, but couldn’t locate the source. My multimeter gave correct readings, but nothing worked. The [...]