It is becoming very popular to wrap cars in vinyl rather then painting it the old fashion way. I found this article over at bimmerpost.com. The owner decided to try to wrap his car in vinyl himself rather then paying someone to do it. He found that for a small fraction of the cost for a new paint job he was able to successfully change the color of his car. You can check out the article including all his tips @ e90post.com

I have wondered what what the differences would be for different size wheels and tires. I knew that increasing the width can easily increase grip. Check out this test that car and driver did with a VW Golf.
Caranddriver.com/features/10q1/effects_of_upsized_wheels_and_tires_tested-tech_dept

I have sold another acrylic on canvas painting. The remaining paints in the series will be posted here on my website for sale soon.

I was looking up How Bit Torrents work and I thought I would describe what I found. I knew basically how they worked but I waned to find out more, so I went to Wikipedia for the answer.

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files. The protocol works as an alternative data distribution method that makes even small computers with low bandwidth capable of participating in large data transfers. First, a user playing the role of file-provider makes a file available to the network. This first user’s file is called a seed and its availability on the network allows other users, called peers, to connect and begin to download the seed file. As new peers connect to the network and request the same file, their computer receives a different piece of the data from the seed. Once multiple peers have multiple pieces of the seed, BitTorrent allows each to become a source for that portion of the file. The effect of this is to take on a small part of the task and relieve the initial user, distributing the file download task among the seed and many peers. With BitTorrent, no one computer needs to supply data in quantities which could jeopardize the task by overwhelming all resources, yet the same final result—each peer eventually receiving the entire file—is still reached.

You can read the entire description at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29

I am proud to announce that the new redesign for Monteverde Conservation League US site is live. You can check out the new design at http://mclus.org/.

Over the last 2 years, I have been working on my first series of acrylic paintings. I have sold the first one. Soon I will get the remaining paintings up on my site.

I found a good way to search for files in SVN that are “!” and remove them.
svn st | grep ! | sed ’s/\! *//’ | xargs svn rm

Tesla fans all over the world rejoiced on Thursday, March 26, 2009. The Model S luxury sedan was revealed in Los Angeles at the x factory. Tesla’s second model promises to be be amazing.

I thought I would see how my car would look with a few little mods. I removed all the spoilers and give it larger 18″ advan racing wheels. I like the overall look better; it’s more simple.

This is the new Tesla sedan know as the “Model S”, seen here partly uncovered over a month before its scheduled unveiling march 26 2009. This California made all electric sports sedan is said to have a 225-240 mile range on a single charge and a $60,000 price tag. Tesla hopes to have it in production by 2010. I can’t wait, I am saving up for it right now and maybe by the time Tesla produces enough examples to satisfy Hollywood’s craving for zero emissions cars I might have enough saved up to get my own.

Performance has not been sacrificed with this electric sedan either, it will do 0–60 mph in less than 6 seconds. And it will look good doing it. Franz von Holzhausen, the former director of design for Mazda North America is responsible for the finshing touches to this sexy sports sedan.