MG 49 – S40 Oxygen Sensor Replacement

20 January 2010

In this episode I replace an auction sensor on my 2001 Volvo S40. I discovered the problem when I started getting a check engine light, I pulled the codes with an OBD-II reader and the code it found was P0130 after some googling that pointed me in the direction of the oxygen sensor.

MG 48 – Volvo S40 Timing Belt Replacement

29 December 2009

My volvo S40 has what’s called an intereference design engine, basicly what this means is that if the timing belt were to break the valve would stop moving and would hang in a position that would ‘interfere’ with the pistons path of travel. It wouldn’t really be an ‘oops pardon me while I squeeze by’ type of interference it would be possible broken piston heads and bent and broken valves.

Thus it’s recommend that the timing belt is replaced ever 100k miles, well right now I’m over 120k and I’m nervouse to say the least.

My dad was kind enough to help me out(did most of the work) and we got it done.

My Dog Enjoys Snow

25 December 2009

Xmas in Minnesota, I heard we got somewhere between 10-12 inches so far. It pretty much sucks but my dog thinks it’s the coolest thing ever.

Meme Papercraft

9 December 2009

Looks like I’m gonna have some new decorations for my cubicle!

Here’s a list of 13 papercraft creations… Link Urlesque

4-keyboard-cat

I’m pretty stoked about this video!

4 December 2009

Audio NSFW

MG47 – Matt’s Rims

11 November 2009

Matt’s rims were looking pretty bad on his Malibu so we repainted them.

MG46 – Changing Brake Pads and Rotors

8 October 2009

I help my friend Taher out and change the brake pads and rotors on his mitsubishi galant.

MG45 – Seafoaming The Volvo

3 October 2009

In this episode I dump 1/3 of a can of seafoam into my engine via a vacuum line in order to remove excessive carbon that may have built up over time.

How to tie your blog or web publication to a twitter account

23 September 2009

In this tutorial I’m going to go over how to set your blog/cms/web publication to automatically send out updates via twitter. The first question you’ll probably ask is “Why would I want to do that?” Well the biggest reason is just to give your readers another way of finding out about new content being posted to your site another reason would be to attract new readers.

Here is a possible scenario…

You post an article to your site about a recent arsonist that was arrested in say Faribault, MN. If that post also appeared as a ‘tweet’ on a twitter account someone searching twitter to see if anyone is talking about that arsonist that was arrested in Faribault would arrive on your ‘tweet’ and be referred to your full article on your site via a link thus driving more page views to your publication and possibly acquiring  new frequent visitors.

It’s just one more way for you to get your content in front of more eyes and ears. So with that being said your physical resources may already be stretched, you might not have any room on any of your staff’s plates to add in maintaining a twitter account to their list of tasks. Luckily there’s an easy way to automate all of this and best of all it doesn’t cost you anything.

Read the rest of this entry »