Apple Battery Issues Go Beyond Recall.

Apple would like you to believe that their battery recall was their way of making good on shipping out a bad batch of batteries. Unfortunately, if the serial number is not in the range that qualifies, it is not covered, even if it inflates like a balloon. I wonder if that means it is still safe to use? I guess it must be.

Found: Golf Ball

If someone in Cedar Falls is looking for a missing golf ball, I think I have it.

Am I the only one who now doesn't want to go to bed because I don't want to miss the last episodes of Conan? What a shame.

For sale: Honda Accord. Goes great in reverse!

So my 93 Accord's transmission went out this morning on the way to work. Had it towed, and just heard back. Officially dead. For a little more than the car is worth I can have a transmission with 100,000 miles on it put in. Oh, and we sold our spare car on Friday.

Nitro RC

Since the last update I did get the Lightning. It is actually a STR, not VX, so it is the newer version. I don't know what is actually different.
Right now, both the truck and the car are taken apart in my basement. Trying to get things figured out. It is amazing how much you can learn while tooling around on them. I think I am getting a better understanding on them, so hopefully I won't have as many problems in the future. Most of my problems so far have been from hitting things and because of misalignment of the engine. Hopefully this weekend I will be able to get at least one of them out. I still have to finish break in process for the Lightning, so I haven't even seen it at full power yet.

New hobby

So, if you know me well enough to know that I have a blog, you know that I tend to obsess about some things. Razors are a good example. Anyway, I have a new obsession. Nitro RC. I have wanted a nitro RC vehicle since I was in high school, and finally decided to make it happen. I sold a razor to buy a Redcat Volcano SV. A monster truck. Fairly cheap, but a good way to get started from what I read. I have been breaking something almost every time I take it out, but I have been enjoying working on it, and Redcat has their parts priced pretty cheap. With some of the crashes, and the speed of the thing, I can't complain about broken parts.
I recently found another car, same brand, through a guy who bought it and never ended up doing anything with it. Another razor down, and another vehicle on it's way to me. It is a Redcat Lightning VX. This one is an on road car, supposed to be very fast. Anyway, I will probably have some updates about these, be forewarned. :)

Asus Eee PC 1000 HE vs 1000 HEB

In researching netbooks recently I saw a review where someone said that they bought the 1000HE from Best Buy, and when they got it home they started noticing things weren't available that they were expecting and eventually found that Best Buy actually sells the 1000 HEB not the 1000 HE. Turns out that the competitively priced computer at Best Buy is a heavily watered down version. Note that the HE-B is the black HE, the HEB is Best Buy's cheapo version.

I did a little searching and here is a list of things I found to be different between the two:

-No Bluetooth on the HEB.

-7 hour battery on HEB as compared to 9.5 on HE.

-HEB has Atom N270 rather than N280 processor. Minimal horsepower difference, 1.6 compared to 1.66 GHz, but it also has higher power consumption and is paired with a slower FSB.

-The HE reportedly has a sound card upgrade, although I could not find the model of either.

-Both have 802.11 b/g/n, but the n is limited to 2.4 mhz on the HEB, compared to 5 on HE.

-HE comes with a laptop protective carrying sleeve

-I could not find any information about eee drive for the HEB, but the HE comes with 10 GB of online storage.


I just found this interesting, and I put the list together from several different sources, so thought it would be worth putting it all together.