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Hypermiling update

I previously posted about hypermiling and started employing some of the techniques in my own driving. I can now claim minor success! On the last two gallons of gas purchased, my mileage was 31.5—a gain of 3.5mpg on my measurement when I purchased the car! It’s pretty exciting to me considering there are still a number of other things I can do to improve my mileage like replacing the air filter, having an oil change (I’m overdue.), and correcting the tire pressure. I’ll keep you posted

Mac twitter clients: twhirl versus Twitterrific

I want to like Twitterrific so badly because it is obviously a Mac-native app. It is gorgeous. It has cool notification sounds when someone tweets. There are also some problems. I can’t look at a single individual’s tweets within the interface. I can’t follow people from within the interface. I can’t easily switch between the public and my own timeline.

I want to like twhirl so badly because it has nearly every feature of twitter.com and then some. The aesthetics are not at all shabby. It has great notifications. I love the added picture and url shortening functionality. There are some problems. I can’t get to the public timeline at all. It stops responding at all from time to time. I would prefer it on the menubar, or, at the very least, the “Hide when minimized” option in the preferences should work!

What’s a geek to do?

Under the weather, creative pipes clogged

I’ll get back in the swing of things soon. I’ve got some ideas but no means to articulate them right now…