phpgedview Genealogy
I thought about starting a family tree a while back and finally got round to starting something this week. One of my criteria was that I wanted it to be web based so that I could access it from anywhere, keeping it in the 'cloud' so it wasn't tied down to just one computer in my home and also to have the ability to give other people the ability to log in and edit the database.
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My Brain
I was listening to Are We Alone podcast this morning on the way to work (on an old iriver instead of my HTC Touch HD - but that's another story) and it was all about how your memory works. One thing I always think about and complain to others about is what I perceive to be the state of my memory.
I really think I have problems remembering things.
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Blog Post via Email
This is a test to see if I can add blog posts to my website via
email...if so I may describe how I did it... although probably not as I
never have time to do anything at the moment... Just google it. That's
all I did!
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BMW Log - Water Pump
@ 168,570 miles
Just the day I went on paternity leave, we were luckily just getting home when the car started making a very funny noise and I could feel it too. It was an awful rumbling noise accompanied by vibration from the engine being felt through the steering wheel. Not nice. I had grim thought when listening to it at first thinking, oh no maybe the crank bearings have gone, as it sounds like a horrible, low down, internal knocking noise.
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BMW Log - Rear Pads
Changed the rear pads on the BMW @ 170,260 miles. Easiest job I have done on the car so far.
Make sure you chock the front wheels as this is obviously a rear wheel drive car and therefore nothing will lock the front wheels as simply as putting it in gear, like on a front wheel drive car.
Wheel off, two bolts on the back of the caliper off and the caliper comes off.
Remove the old pads. I tend to clean the area up a bit, where parts mate, i.e. where the pads sit in the caliper carrier; I just clean it up with a wire brush to remove accumulated crud.
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Samsung N130
Recently got a new netbook in the form of a Samsung N130 to replace my Advent, which met its demise at the hands of my 20 month old. It was replaced on household insurance fortunately and its spec seems basically the same. I think they're all much of a muchness really. Seems like a nice netbook for my basic purposes.
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BMW Log - 167,000 Miles
Oil and filter change. Never seen so much oil come out of a car... but then I am used to cars that use their oil. This car dumped what looked like its full 6.75l of oil, hopefully indicating that it doesn't use/loose any oil. I hadn't changed it since I bought it (bad, I know) and who knows how many miles before I had it it had been changed, so it had done at least 15,000 on the last oil without loosing any.
I do try to change oil at a maximum of every 10,000 miles.
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BMW Log - Front End Sorted-ish
Well I was right, the tyres were badly out of alignment and scrubbing badly... so badly the front two tyres wore almost completely smooth in 5 days (~500 miles)! So not only a puncture to replace but now the front two tyres so it had to be new tyres all round. Now I am glad I had already replaced the wheels so I could at least buy normally priced/sized tyres. Still not what I wanted to be doing right now.
The tyres were shocking... I was shocked!
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BMW Log - Aftermath of changing Control Arms on the BMW
Well after changing the control arms on the BMW to sort out worn bushes, as ever, I have inevitably introduced new problems. To be expected really... any suspension component work is always likely to throw the wheel alignment out on a car, I just didn't realise how sensitive BMWs are to badly aligned wheels.
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BMW Log - Control Arms
One of my to do items for the BMW was to change the control arms, as the wear in the bushes/ball joints was becoming very apparent.
The symptoms are basically wobbling / vibrating of the front end of the car, not just through the steering wheel but you could feel the whole car shaking from side to side. It started at just certain speeds on the motorway, about 50 - 60 mph, which then progressed into bad vibration under braking.
It all came to a head finally at the most inconvenient time (of course) when setting off to drive home for Christmas to visit family. It just started vibrating & wobbling at nearly all speeds and felt very unsafe. So had to limp home and use the Audi, I unfortunately, but fortunately, still have.
