Frankster left a comment on my previous post regarding understeer and looking where you want to go, and I thought it interesting enough to post here: “Look where you want to go” does not apply to understeer. You are already looking and steering in the direction you want to go, but it’s not happening because you’ve lost front end traction. [...]
Archive for: May, 2003
PPIR national
I’m back home now. So how did the national go? Well, it rained (hard) about an hour before our race. Things were pretty dry for the race, though, except for a couple of places with standing water. I qualified second (that’s getting to be a habit!), and led going into turn 2. Kim and I went side [...]
Second again
Another interesting day…practice was fine, if a bit cool. During qualifying, I lost my transmission…ok, well I didn’t lose it literally, but it wasn’t working very well. Had to get a new one put in before the race. That’s a part of racing you have to get used to – things don’t last like they [...]
Racing this weekend
Wow…what a day. I’m racing this weekend at Pikes Peak International Raceway; there are regionals on Saturday and Sunday, and a national on Monday. In today’s regional, I qualified 2nd, 0.6 seconds off the pole (which is a lot – I was a bit disappointed). What a race, though – definitely the best race I’ve [...]
Photographs at Starbuck’s
Gosh…so this might be one of the only inside-Starbuck’s pictures around. And I got to be in it! I feel like such a rebel. Lessig suggests a fun weekend project at Starbuck’s.[Scripting News]
Weblog changes
I’ve changed a couple of things about this weblog. First, in the referrer listings I keep with each post, I am now filtering out search engine referrers. They were not only filling up the lists, but there were an interesting problem with it. I had one post a while back where someone searched for “google [...]
Sneaky NewsGator screenshot
You have to look closely, but Figure A of Mike’s article is showing a NewsGator folder. Cool! Too bad the toolbar was turned off… ;-) Outlook 2003 offers many new features, but it will cost you – An article I co-authored for TechRepublic. [Larkware News]
Feedback on NewsGator 1.2
Wow…I’m a little overwhelmed by the great feedback on NewsGator 1.2. Many thanks to everyone…you all contributed to making yesterday the single largest traffic day to date on newsgator.com, by a long shot. And a quick announcement, we will be shipping WMP9 support in all of our posting plug-ins within a couple of days. Matt has already [...]
NewsGator 1.2 Released!
NewsGator 1.2 has been released! I won’t duplicate the release announcements…here are the important links: Announcement / Change List Press Release Downloads Plug-in information Plug-in developer information Posting support is available today for: Blogger Radio Userland BlogX dotnetweblogs.com Movable Type (courtesy Matt Berther) EraBlog.NET. Here are some screen shots of some of the [...]
Email and Weblogs
With most news aggregators available today, you can read weblog posts.NewsGator 1.1 offers excellent integration with Outlook; and given a weblog post, you can forward it via email.Tomorrow, May 20, 2003, everything changes.NewsGator 1.2. Available Tuesday.