WOW! I’ve been trying to think of ways to make my short (<10 mile) work commute as fuel efficient as possible. I drive a little Gulf with a standard transmission and keep up with it's maintenance but with gas hitting $4.00 a gallon I may have to start pushing for working from home as much as I can.

The Enertia Bike would seem like the awesome solution to making my commute gas free but at $12,000 base it’s the motorcycle equivalent of the Tesla Roadster. However companies like ZERO MOTORCYCLES are popping up too. I’m wondering if one of these all electric dirt devils can be made street legal? At $7,450 the ZERO X seems much more attainable.

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A quick trip to the local Apple Store Genius Bar and my MacBook Pro is off to ‘The Depot’ to get my screen replaced and everything else checked out.

Based on what happens here I may actually pop for an Apple Care account before my warranty expires. Also played with the iPod Touch a little. Then I had to put it back down because I was trying to think of what possessions I could sell fast to get the cash to buy one.

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I just noticed that I didn’t have this up in my blog anymore.

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Ta-DA! There’s a new tab up there. Rather than putting projects into random blog posts I’m going to keep them all in one set of pages and just post updates in the blog.

I invite anyone to offer feedback or tips on any of the projects. Post a comment or question either on the project page or on the blog post for the project. If you even have project ideas please feel free to post those as well.

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My lovely MacBook Pro has a bright spot in it’s screen. I say ‘in’ because it doesn’t look like it’s on the screen but behind it. It’s a fuzzy dash of brightness seen in these photos, just under the cross hair.

When you move from one side to another it looks like it moves slightly, again making me think it’s behind the screen. It’s annoying as hell since anything with a white or pale fill gains this bright, fuzzy, dash.

I guess I’ll have to take it into the Apple store and have it looked at. Better back up all my crap beforehand. Not fun.

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We have a new member of the family! Mona is a five month old Jack Russell / Welsh Terrier ‘hybrid’. She’s the sweetest dog I’ve ever met. We didn’t want a large dog and didn’t want one that was to hyper either.

She’s very chill and will just sit on your lap and hang out. She’s playful but not a spaz like many Jack Russells I’ve met. Now if I can just keep the boy from driving her crazy.

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Caffeine

Sometimes I just don’t want my Mac to go to sleep or even dim it’s screen.

Dead simple and easy this puts a little Zzz. icon in your system menu at the top of your screen. When you don’t want your Mac to go to sleep just click the icon and it will show itself crossed out. When you don’t care if your Mac goes to sleep click it again and wa-la.

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