Outside Red Rock Canyon, Nevada

June 2006

Do You Like to Obsess Over Fuel Economy?

If so, fueleconomy.gov has a service for you. My MPG allows you to track the fuel consumption of your vehicle(s), and by contributing to the database of real world fuel economy, you can see how your vehicle ranks amongst others of varying models and years. I'll start logging as soon as I fill up again, which in my V6 Toyota Tacoma pickup shouldn't be much more than a few days from now.

The Coolest Guitar Ever

The coolest guitar ever (that isn't really a guitar) is a Y-shaped string instrument called a Tritare. Leave it to the Canadians to come up with something this weird (and undeniably awesome); I would fully expect to hear this in a Rush album from the year 2112.

Personal finance is the thorn in my side

This is part one of what I suspect will be many posts referring to my personal finances. The gist of the situation is that I've been taking some things--student loans, credit cards--for granted over the last few years as I completed degree after degree, but now I've entered the workforce as a non-student and I'm finding that I'm lagging behind my peers in financial confidence. As such, I'm utilizing the power of the Internet to play catch-up. I've been finding some great advice all over the Web, and today's find was no exception.

Mac OS X Leopard Screenshots?

Two screenshots of what apparently is a beta of Mac OS X 10.5 have been leaked, revealing what appears to be a desktop switcher and even Internet Explorer running natively in OS X. [digg]