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Ural sidecar motorcycles have caught my imagination of late (well, for a couple of months now), but this is the first page I've seen with such an extensive breakdown and review of a Ural Tourist sidecar rig:
Link: Jack and Luzimar's 2006 Ural Tourist.
after waiting for the Ural to evolve these past few years, we finally bit the bullet... and purchased a new 2006 Ural Tourist (sight unseen).
And, far and away my favorite:
The Dilbert Blog: Disturbing Developments
[note: about the discovery a while back that female chimps were making spears to go hunt cute wee tree-napping primates called bushbabies. I'm filing this where I can quickly grab it the next time some Eugene hippie starts ranting about the perfect passive harmony of Mama Nature and how only humans are violent]
One of the coolest posts I've seen in a while (and with nearly 750 saved in my Bloglines I should know). How secure is your password? Find out here:
Link: How passwords get cracked - Lifehacker.
"This is eye-opening stuff, even for users who know better than to use "1234" as their password. Thankfully, the author goes on to provide seven great tips on choosing safer passwords"
Jodie and I have been wanting a new printer for a while.
Our requirements? Inexpensive, durable, fast... and laser. No inkjets allowed in this house.
I hate inkjet printers, and consider them one of the most ingenius and insidious consumer rackets ever created by the tech industry. Inkjets prey on getting people in for cheap on the hardware — then getting screwed royally on the ink cartridges until doomsday. But I digress.
A good laser printer, on the other hand, can now be bought pretty inexpensively. And while, yes, replacement toner costs more than ink, you also get a lot more use out of it (the cartridge that came with our new Brother HL-5250DN, for example, will last about 7,000 pages)
After much research (including reading all 109 customer reviews on Amazon), we ordered our Brother HL-5250DN laser printer from Provantage (due to price, which came to $203 with shipping, and was the best deal at the time of purchase).
We chose this model for its speed, Mac/PC/network compatibility, and for its auto-duplexing (printing on both sides without you having to manually change the paper). I set it up last night (its name is Unagi, after our favorite sushi), and initial results are favorable:
For more info on the Brother HL-5250DN, and where you can buy, see the links below:
Going on a roadtrip in Oregon, during inclement weather months (pretty much October thru, oh, I don't know, September)? Then be sure to check TripCheck, from the Oregon Department of Transportation, for road conditions, closures, if you need chains, etc.:
Link: TripCheck - Road Cams, Road & Weather Conditions in Oregon - ODOT.
Some posts of interest from the WhyBike? Motorcycle Blog:
From cleaning out papers to saving the right documents for tax purposes, to checking up on your investments and your credit report, here's a good breakdown of some financial spring cleaning:
Link: Spring a good time to get your financial house in order - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
Have an interest in gardening, and would like some seeds? Have some seeds you'd like to get rid of?
The Eugene Permaculture Guild is holding their 8th Annual Bioregional Spring Seedswap today, Mar. 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The seed swap is being held at the Many Nations Longhouse, on 1630 Columbia St. (behind the Law School at U of O).
From the flier: "Freely exchange seeds, plants, cuttings, root divisions and starts. Feel free to come completely empty-handed. All are welcome."
Learn more at the Eugene Permaculture Guild's website.
I am a Bloglines packrat. I am an info packrat. Period. But having 750 posts saved in Bloglines — because I'm going to come back to them, you know — just makes me shudder.
Here are some ideas I'm kicking around to deal with this:
Either way, the Bloglines has to get emptied out — because if after only a few months of using it I'm busting 750, then all that means is that 4 figures if frighteningly close...
The gamut of checking accounts, savings accounts, money market funds, CDs and all that has been in my head a lot the past couple of months. I'm pretty traditional — checking account and savings account. But maybe it's time to do something different — and earn a bit more interest in the process:
Link: AllFinancialMatters � Blog Archive � Jonathan Clements: Nickel-and-Diming Your Way to Riches.
One guy that Clements mentions earns $35 - $85 per month in interest by depositing his entire check into a high-yield savings account and then transferring money into his checking account as he needs it. He says he rarely has more than $100 in his checking account. I wonder how much time he spends managing his money? Is it worth $85 per month? I wonder…
Here's the article online (access may be limited/temporary): Getting Going - WSJ.com
And here's another post on the same topic: samerwriter » Paying Yourself First
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