01/29/2010If you find yourself driving one of the recalled Toyota and the accelerator pedal sticks you can still stop your vehicle safely by following the instructions below:
1. Stay calm!
2. Place vehicle in neutral.
3. Come to a complete stop.
4. Turn off the engine. (If you do this first you will lose your steering assist and it could be hard to steer your vehicle)
By following these steps you can stop your vehicle completely and safely.
Recalled Vehicles
2009-2010 Toyota Rav4, Corolla, Matrix
2005-2010 Avalon
2007-2010 Camry
2010 Highlander
2007-2010 Tundra
2008-2010 Sequoia..
The Camry Hybrid is not included in the recall.
01/22/2010Mention to anyone with computer savvy that your laptop has somehow gotten slower over recent months and they’ll ask you the same thing: “have you defragmented your hard drive?” Defragmenting works by taking small slivers of information stored in various locations and consolidating them so that they’re in the same place on the drive and thus easier to access in larger chunks. Hard drive fragmentation is a great metaphor for – if not a literal manifestation of – what’s happened to our brains over years and years of processing small bursts of information. 2009 took fragmentation to a whole new level given the rise of Twitter and the social acceptance of texting people as a substitute to making phone calls.
Try defragmenting your mental and psychological hard drive over the course of a week. I invite you all to participate.
Guidelines:
- email only from laptop or desktop computers
- cell phones can only be used to make calls, and no text messages or e-mails are allowed – if you receive a text, you must reply in voice over the phone. E-mails must be returned from a laptop or desktop computer.
- no use of Twitter or any other social networking site – this includes reading as well as posting.
- no visiting of any entertainment or gossip sites. (No need to detail which ones – you know what they are.)
I floated the idea last week on Twitter to see if anyone could envision themselves doing this, and the responses were interesting; some said they could definitely do it, but many were resigned to the idea, calling it impossible. If it is impossible, than my theory is already proven and we’re in big trouble as a society.
This can be done, people.
via: JM
01/18/2010I have just had the privilege of coding a refresh for my wife’s photography site. And we have also refreshed her blog. So please go and take a look. She can also be found on twitter follow @simonewitt. She’s a great photographer and I am glad that I can do this for her.
The new site:
And here is a pic of the new blog:
