So its a bit of an annoyance, but Google’s Gmail is acting up and has been for the last few months. Its nothing major in my opinion, but it is annoying. When ever I click on “Always display images from …” Gmail seems to forget and next time I get a message from whoever I want on the safe list, it asks me again. Gotta love it.
Apparently Google is aware of the situation.
Just currious to see if anyone else is having issues visiting pages that refer to pagead2.googlesyndication.com? Maybe its just an issue on my end? I’ll dig a little deeper.
Changed the theme for the site. Pretty happy with the way it came out.
May 9
Spent half a day at Pala Raceway the other week riding my 2006 Honda TRX450er on the quad track. Met up with a buddy of mine from trx450r.org and the crew from ThrottleJunkie.com. Here are a couple pics of what went down:
Cant wait to go back. Thinkin about going tomorrow afternoon! Should be a good time 
So a client of mine called me up asking me if I know how to replace a hard drive in a laptop. Sure I do, so she brought me the laptop, and handed me a Apple Macbook A1181. Now I’m no mac tech, so I was kinda lost at first when it came to replacing the hard drive. But lucky for me, I found a PDF that outlines exactly how to do it, and holly sweetness its easy.
So i have attached the PDF for you to download so you too can replace your harddrive if you ever need to.
A couple of quick tips to add:
If you are installing a new harddrive, you might need to go into the Disk Utilities and “Erase” the hard drive. Erase it to MacOS Extended Journaled (unless you want to use one of the other options) and name the hard drive “Macintosh HDD.” You probably dont have to name it that, but thats what Apple does, so for consistancy I did the same thing.
So to get to the Disk Utility, Boot off the OS disk by holding your C key as you power on the unit. Let it get to the welcome screen, and then go to menu on top, where the apple is, file, and so on. Under utilities, you will find the disk utility.
I had to do this to the hard drive before the OS would recognize it as a Destination to install the OS too. Before it wouldn’t detect the hard drive in there, so hopefully if you experience this too, now you know what to do.
Had some spare time and was sitting around so I decided to take my truck out and see what the Palomar Divide was all about, got about 5 miles up and had to turn around. There was too much snow, and I started loosing traction, no good. But all in all it was a great time.
Heres my run:
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Then on the way back into town, i recorded a time laps of the drive…
So I was looking for a good place to gather all the GPS Coordinates for Glamis, the Imperial Sand Dune Recreation area. I found quite a bit of information about it, but no links to Google Earth KML files, so I created this resource area for it. Click here to download ALL the POI’s I have for Glamis is one Google Earth Pack. (I will keep adding more from time to time, so check back.)
Roadrunner Campground
32°54′40.80″N 115° 7′0.60″W
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All-American Canal
32°56′27.96″N 115° 9′24.85″W
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Gecko Road
32°57′58.20″N 115°10′13.80″W
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Cahuilla (Glamis) Ranger Station
32°58′25.12″N 115°10′22.32″W
Phone Number: (760)344-3919 - Subject to change with out notice!
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Sand Drag Races
32°58′10.70″N 115°10′9.45″W
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Osborne Overlook
32°59′0.60″N 115° 7′57.60″W
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Competition Hill
32°59′5.02″N 115° 7′36.77″W
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Oldsmobile Hill
32°58′3.98″N 115° 6′24.97″W
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Brawley Slide
32°56′40.48″N 115° 4′50.35″W
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Lizard Hill
32°55′42.18″N 115° 4′4.76″W
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China Wall
32°54′38.41″N 115° 2′14.00″W
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Glamis Flats
32°59′31.91″N 115° 4′46.78″W
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Glamis Beach Store
32°59′46.88″N 115° 4′21.05″W
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Wash Road
32°59′36.49″N 115° 3′53.46″W
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Boardmanville
32°59′8.28″N 115° 2′4.24″W
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Sep 16
I went to go transfer a domain of mine to 1&1 and well, they’re down right now. Damn…
Ehh, it happens…
Apparently their monitoring isn’t that effective!
That’s weird!
My WalkScore: 48 out of 100. I’m Car-Dependent.
I was browsing through some of my RSS feeds and stumbled on a post about WalkScore.com. I remember hearing about this a year ago up in San Francisco while I was up there for a convention. So with this random place posting about WalkScore.com, I figured I’d check it out. Well, it seems that where I live isn’t so walkable after all. Only a 48 out of 100. My old house, however, is a 65 out of 100 and so is the place where I work. But I find that a little hard to believe. WalkScore.com, do you really expect me to walk 4.65 miles to a starbucks for a out priced cup of joe!? Naw, didn’t think so. Regardless, it was still a fun little experiment.
So, whats your walkscore???
I can totally see it some day..
Them: Hey, ASL? WS?
Me: Hi, 26, M, Southern CA… WS: 48… U?
Them: ugg, only a 48.. Lates….
Okay, maybe thats pushing it a little.
So I’ve been playing Ice Hockey for a few months now, and still loving every minute of it. Its been a lot of work, but the fundimentals are starting to click and make sense; ice positioning – where to be at what times, skating – getting where I need to be in an efficient way, and just an overall understanding of whats going on. Its a great feeling. I’ve actually had some offers to join a team which totally makes me happy! Right now I’m still going to the Hockey Clinic’s on Tuesday nights, at Ice Town – Riverside. But soon I will be part of a team.
I got to the ice rink a little early this Tuesday, so I took my camrea in a snapped a few shots. Ricky took a few of me getting my gear in the car too…
