Archives for October 2009

Pinto ’74 – Gas Tank Back In…

I’m in the middle of completely redoing the rear suspension. As the original leaf springs were rusted beyond repair I bought replacements from a local spring shop and ordered them 1″ de-arced ( 1″ lower than stock height ). With the new springs I bought rear shackles and new poly-bushings all around for a little […]

A Day at Island Dragway

My son, daughter and her fiance gave to me as a birthday gift a day at Island Dragway. My daughter Caitlin drag races her 2007 Subaru STi along with her fiance Brent who races his worked 91 Talon Tsi. Caitlin asked Brent what they should get me for my birthday and he just looked at […]

Social Media Journey – Adding The “Sociable” Plugin

As promised in some of my previous posts I will be chronicling my Social Media journey. I just added the Sociable plugin for this hosted WordPress blog. Sociable allows you to add social bookmarking links to your posts. I have chosen to only add them to the bottom of my individual post pages and other […]

Reading “naked conversations”… Part II

Chapter One: Laying the foundation – a historical time-line if you will to put into perspective where the social media world was when this book came out. – MySpace hit the ground running in August 2003 – Facebook was founded in February of 2004 – Twitter started as a side project in March of 2006 […]