It’s still not clear what the root cause of the sudden unexpected acceleration in Toyotas is, but this article at least gives us an idea of how widespread the problem is. Toyotas for 2008 are between 10 and 16 times as likely to experience this problem as GM, which had the best ratio of number of cars sold to the number of complaints. The reason for the range between 10 and 16 is that Toyota received a significant jump in complaints due to media attention. Of course, Toyotas are generally rated as having higher reliability than GM cars. Also, not all of these incidents result in accidents. Therefore, it would be nice if there was a comparison of how often defects in cars from a given automaker cause an accident.

http://blogs.consumerreports.org/cars/2009/12/sudden-unintended-acceleration-sua-analysis-2008-toyota-lexus-ford-gm.html

Yesterday, we got to the airport really early, which was good, so the line to check our bags was only half as long as the picture shows. The line moved pretty quickly after they started processing the luggage manually. I’m not sure what they did for people who didn’t have bording passes already. The power was out for about an hour. I wonder if they have a generator that was just giving them problems. I guess we won’t be recreating the movie Planes, Trains & Automobiles after all.

This is so crack headed.

http://ajaxian.com/archives/fun-with-browsers-for-in-loop

This is a good site for verifying whether IE is at fault for your ugly page. I recently had to work around bug #50.

Bugs in MSIE 8

http://tweetcampsa.eventbrite.com/ — July 18, 2009

http://www.barcamp.org/actioncampsa — August 1, 2009

This is on Thursday, April 9.

http://www.c4workspace.com/2009/04/c4-workspace-open-house-thursday-april-9-4-6-pm/

David Walker, former US Comptroller General and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, will be
giving the talk, America on the Brink of Financial Crisis, in San Antonio on January 15.

Interview with David Walker on 60 Minutes:

30 minute version of the movie I.O.U.S.A:
I started to wonder how the debt-to-GDP ration in the US compares to other countries, and the numbers are actually worse for many industrialized countries, but the US may be in much worse shape because we also have high private debt combined with growing public debt.

I gotta get some of these jeans.

Sometimes, originality is really not a good thing: