My First Porsche DE

I completed my first Porsche Drivers Education event at the Putnam Park road course this past weekend.  I'd been wanting to do something like this for quite some time, but just never made it happen.  I'm very pleased that I finally did.  The people I met were awesome and the time on the track was [...]

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Written by Carlton Bale in: Automotive |

Ford is so Out-of-Touch: Waiver to Listen to MP3s?

I read an article regarding MP3 Player Integration on the SEMA.org site. Here is a direct quote:
Ford has plans in the works to protect itself from potential prosecution for being a conduit to illegally downloaded music.  One of Ford's ideas is a user consent agreement to be used for MP3 playback where car buyers [...]

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Speeding-up Movie Ripping on my NEC DVD Drive

Great, after spending hours and hours ripping almost all of my DVDs to my server, I find a firmware patch that allows my DVD drive to read movies at about 10 times the speed.  Apparently there is a RipLock feature on most DVD drives that prevents high-speed reading of DVD movies.  I guess this is [...]

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Dave Matthews Band – Verizon Wireless Music Center – Indianapolis – Noblesville (2006-06-03)

Setlist
Seating Location: Section D, 5 rows from the back
Our good friends Bryan and Tammy Willett came to visit us for the weekend and go to the show. They are professional UK tailgaters and brought all of their gear. We tailgated at Huggy Bear for a few hours, eating, drinking, playing corn hole, and being merry, [...]

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Written by Carlton Bale in: Concerts |

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