http://ctardi.com Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:04:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We replaced the spark plugs.  Sounds like an easy job, and it was, sort of.  On the passenger side, The back two went in fine, but I had to unmount the a/c unit to get at the third one. On the driver's side, the front two plugs went in just fine, ... http://ctardi.com/2008/06/27/spark-plugs-wires/ Today was spent giving the interior of the car a good cleaning, I shampooed the carpets, and conditioned the leather on the seats, door panels, and rear dash. The seats are looking much better, and the car does smell cleaner. We installed a JVC KD-G440 AM/FM CD Player with remote.  It ... http://ctardi.com/2008/06/22/cleaning-and-new-deck/ Digging around under the hood, we found a hidden surprise of the good kind. The car is equipped with a 4 channel alpine amplifier. I don't have any specs on the amplifier, but it powers up and appears to be in working order. The head unit for the stereo will not ... http://ctardi.com/2008/06/19/alternator-and-stereo/ Just recently my father and I received shipment of our latest project.  A 1979 Porsche 911 SC Targa.  This is the 'Super Carrera' that was originally planned to be the end of the 911.  The 944 that was intended to replace the 911 did not catch on as expected, and ... http://ctardi.com/2008/06/18/a-new-project/ One area of computers that has interested me for some time has been controlling physical devices from a computer.  A goal of mine would be building a simple robot that can carry out a number of pre-programmed actions on it's own.  A couple of months ago, a friend and I ... http://ctardi.com/2008/06/11/servo-controller/ Over the past couple of days I have had the opportunity to help out at the 2008 Youth Regionals climbing competition over at The Edge Climbing Center. Most people, myself included, do not realize the amount of work that goes into putting on an event like this. For ... http://ctardi.com/2008/04/28/2008-youth-regionals/ Well, I've got the layout down to basically what I want it...take a peek! Will post again as it changes into a working website, but for now this has turned into a rush to get version 1 running and released. http://ctardi.com/2008/04/09/bms-screenshot/ I'm normally not too picky about my banking. So long as it keeps my money, it's good. Right now I've got a situation where I would really like to have some cash right now. I need an amount that is larger than what I can get at an ... http://ctardi.com/2008/03/29/banking/ Seven years and four score ago today, I set out to build a very basic software tool for me to use while I was working at The Rock Wall Climbing Gym.  All it needed to do was track registrations for one of our programs.  Well, one thing lead to another, ... http://ctardi.com/2008/03/26/my-software-project-bms/ Well, one of my many topics of interest is programming.  I had set out about 3 months ago to build my own custom blogging platform.  Due to work load, and basic un-interest in taking up another project, I never actually finished it.  Another blogger and co-worker that I know, Tyler ... http://ctardi.com/2008/03/26/blog-ch-ch-ch-changes/