Hey, random header images! If you consider one of two “random”. The BMW was my first racecar. The Miata is my current and second racecar which is for sale.

I downloaded the Dojo Toolkit some time ago but the lack of documentation stalled my progress. For our version 3.2, there are a number of key improvements we want to make using DHTML and Ajax so it’s time to dive in head-first. We are not building a “Web 2.0″ app; we’re adding fancier [...]

Interesting consulting inquiry today. I wrote a pretty sophisticated slide rendering application in Flash MX that used DENG along with some custom code to basically create xml-powered Powerpoint for a training company. They author XML with embedded HTML (inside of a CDATA) which the rendering engine turns into animated slides with audio, video [...]

In rebuilding our mail server last month, I added Courier’s IMAP server enabling us to keep mail on the server instead of always downloading it. You might want to do this if you access your email with multiple devices and you want to see all your emails regardless of whether you connect via Thunderbird, [...]

I’m cleaning out my inbox as I transition from POP3 to IMAP and I thought I’d share this bit of tortuous research I went through a few years ago. In California, it is legally possible to take traffic school more than once every 18 months. It is not the default policy, but if [...]

Part 2 today - apostilles:
In 1961 many nations joined together to create a simplified method of “legalizing” documents for universal recognition. Members of the conference, referred to as the Hague Convention, adopted a document referred to as an Apostille that would be recognized by all member nations.
Documents sent to member nations, completed with an Apostille [...]

A couple of years ago, before I went to Europe, I found out that I am entitled to obtain a Italian citizenship through my great-grandfather:
You qualify if your paternal or maternal grandfather was born in the United States, your paternal great grandfather was an Italian citizen at the time of his birth, neither you nor [...]

A couple of years ago, the town where I grew up opened a bridge designed by renowned architect Santiago Calatrava. Today it was mentioned on CNet.com by one of their authors making a pacific northwest roadtrip.

My dad helped participated in the execution on the management side and I find it interesting the exposure that [...]

AIM Sports makes a great set of data acquisition systems for motorsport applications and I use the MyChron 3 in my Spec Miata. To find those last tenths, I share data with other racers and compare how we each take turns to find out which way works the best.
This past weekend at Sears Point [...]

On MotorsportReg.com, we store vehicle numbers as a string because every so often someone has a letter as part of their number. The problem with storing numbers as strings is that they sort poorly. Instead of “1, 2, 3… 10, 20, 30…” you are presented with “1, 10, 2, 20, 3, 30…”. [...]