Got to the gas station within a few miles of the low fuel light coming on. The gas guage was not quite to the empty mark. 13.519 gallons were required to fill up. That means when the low fuel light comes on, there is about 2.4 gallons left in the tank.

First autocross [caption id=“attachment_29” align=“alignnone” width=“300” caption=“At the line”][/caption] [caption id=“attachment_33” align=“alignnone” width=“300” caption=“Lean to the left”][/caption] [caption id=“attachment_38” align=“alignnone” width=“300” caption=“Looking ahead”][/caption]

Re-wired the foglights so they can be turned on as long as the accessory is on and wired in the Valentine 1

Got the car on the SCCA corner scales. The gas guage was two ticks above the 1⁄2 mark. My best estimate, taking into account the amount of reserve fuel still in the tank after hitting the empty mark (2.5 gallons) is that I had about 10.3 gallons of gas in the tank. (it’s a 15.9 gallon tank). I took everything out of the car, including the floormats, but left in the factory-supplied air compressor (the corner of the car where the air compressor sits was still the lightest!

Picked up the car, blew off work and went driving for the day.

oops, turns out stat has been rolled into GNU coreutils, and the version there compiles and runs fine in OS X. oh well, it kept me entertained at the airport.

I got the linux ‘stat’ system call wrapper working in OS X. Here it is

today is the anniversary of my birth. The best part will be going to see the Zoo lights wife my wife and son. The stable linux kernel 2.6.0 was released late last night, just in time. I installed it on most of my computers today. [caption id=“attachment_19002” align=“alignnone” width=“300” caption=“ocotillo running Linux kernel 2.6.0, and KDE desktop”][/caption] I even have moderator access on slashdot today! Can’t get any better than this.

now aol.com won’t accept email from me anymore either. oh well, just added aol.com to the paranoid domains list

I’ve just started using mediacom’s cable modem service. Sprint Broadband has been quite slow for the past few months, and are taking on no new customers. I could see the writing on the wall. So far, so good. mediacom is definitely faster. The DNS change seems to have propagated much quicker than expected. Only around 4 hours for me to see the change, and for email to start arriving at desertsol.