Archive for March, 2008
A penny for your soybean?
Posted by RyanG in Bio Diesel on March 24, 2008
If you know me, or if you’ve read some of my blog posts you probably know I’m a big fan of diesel engines. In particular I’m quite fond of biodiesel. I’ve often preached that while OPEC continues to shaft us on the price of crude oil making gasoline and petroleum based diesel unreasonably expensive, biodiesel [...]
Microsoft’s Tlbimp creates leaky BSTR signatures
This one confounded me when I first discovered it, and I’ve recently been reminded about it. For the sake of remembering the details, and hopefully helping someone else out I’m going to document it here. The problem is this. When you have a COM library that you need to use from a C# app, you [...]
Check out my new ride!
No, I didn’t actually buy a super car, but I think that I should be able to. Allow me to elaborate. I live in a rather affluent part of Southern California and nice (expensive) cars are not uncommon on our roads. I spent just a couple hours recently at Shoreline (some bluffs just over the [...]
Tools for updating an online image gallery
Not long ago I shared my bash script for creating thumbnails and manageable sized “big” images for an image gallery, or other image store. Well, today I had to update an existing gallery with a pretty significant number of new images. It occurred to me that I’d like to only convert new images rather than [...]
With great power comes?
I’ve been noticing a trend lately in modern cars. Everything is getting exponentially faster and more powerful, and meanwhile more affordable. You can go out today and buy a lightweight SUV or sedan from Jeep/Dodge/Chrystler with a 420hp Hemi for around $35k. But it’s not just the “hot rod” cars that are getting big power, [...]
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