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Baseball cards in my spokes.

Friday, November 11th, 2005

Dear automobile enthusiasts: My Scion (2004 xA, related entries) has started emitting a ticking/clicking sound from its front right wheel. The sound, which really reminds me of a turn signal or of a baseball card stuck between the spokes of a bike wheel, seems to occur in a march: CHIK-chik-CHIK-chik.

It is timed to the speed of the car (not the speed of the engine); I had thought it occurred more than once per tire revolution, but a quick calculation (based on a rough measurement of 4 clicks/sec at 10 mph) proves that it occurs just about once per go-round. No correlation with turning or anything, either.

It’s not so loud that I can hear the sound with the windows up, but with the front passenger’s window down, it’s pretty clearly audible (moreso when I pass a solid object on the right which will reflect the sound). I’ve checked as best I can for stones in the tread and can’t find any. No, I don’t have fancy hubs or spinners or anything; this is the standard, el-cheapo plastic hubcap (which appears securely fastened, if slightly curb-scraped).

Thoughts?

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Spamorons

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Some idiot is comment-spamming dsandler.org with a bunch of links to “bolobomb.com”, which (for me at least) doesn’t even resolve into an IP address. Idiot.

(Aside: I have a weird hankering to play Bolo. There even seems to be a native OSX port. Anyone?)

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WordPress collaboration tools

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Chère lazyweb: I’m using WordPress as a group project blog, and discovering that the access control between users is pretty draconian. This works when you have a number of authors who don’t really interfere with one another, but if you’re trying to collaborate on a page or post with other users, it really sucks: users can’t see one another’s drafts, can’t edit others’ posts, etc. There’s no notion of a “group private” post either. Anyone out there using WordPress in a more deeply collaborative way than “you have your entries and I have mine”?

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Heater, again.

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

Ugh. It’s 82° in our apartment, because the heater’s relay has stuck again. That’s thirty degrees warmer than the air outside.

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