Syndicate

Years ago I was pretty active in Club DSM and CODSM. Making impressive horsepower numbers on a turbo 2 litre was an interesting challenge. On one hand, there were a slew of free mods that improved performance; but to get the most of the car you had to log engine data. Todd Day, the guy who “runs” the national club (essentially a mailing list and a web page) did some hacking and make a very capable datalogging system for the first generation cars.

Anyhow, I just came across Vital Engineering’s site. They have what looks like a pretty cool OBD-II based datalogger setup. It uses bluetooth so you don’t have to try slinging a wire across your dashboard to a laptop any more. That and software for your Windows PC, PocketPC, or Palm.

Now, how about some Linux support?

Its entirely possible that its just me, but I really think design should take into consideration more than just day to day usage. It should consider failure modes, and recovering from them. In software this means good hooks for logging activity. Reasonable places to add debugging code, clear interactions between components, etc.
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Tiff and I just had her 12-week visit to the doctor. She’s pregnant. :)

We haven’t really been telling people this time around until things were pretty certain. Anyhow, aside from waiting forever due to a nurse who forgot about us, things were pretty quick. We listened to the baby’s heartbeat and scheduled the next visit.

Exciting times!

I almost hate to do it, but here’s yet another blog.  I wasn’t maintaining the blog-ish site I’d hand crafted, so who knows what’ll happen here.

If nothing else, at least it maintains itself (other than that content detail).