This weekend I attended Jeff’s brake pad and rotor replacement 101 course in his driveway. The donor car was my 2004 Sunfire (since it needed new brake pads and rotors according to my mechanic) and the attendance was rather pathetic – Jeff was there and so was I. Yeah, so Jeff offered to help me do a [...]
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Every Kilowatt Counts
A couple nights ago on the news I caught a quick reference to a new set of energy saving coupons being put out by the Ontario Conservation Bureau. Their Every Kilowatt Counts program is once again offering a number of coupons on energy saving devices starting on October 1st, 2006. This is similar to a program [...]
Residents duped in blackened money scam
Apparently someone in Mississauga Ontario was conned out of $49,000, yes, fourty-nine thousand dolllars, by two men who identified themselves as being from Nigeria. From the article on the CBC website, Residents duped in blackened money scam, it seems that two men tried to pass off “blackened” US money that was being transported from Nigeria to [...]
2006 Pontiac Vibe Gas Mileage
We’re over 20,000km on the 2006 Pontiac Vibe now and the gas mileage is getting better. Even with the warmer temperatures and use of the air conditioning a fair bit our average gas mileage is 8.29L/100km (or about 28.4mpg if I did the math right) over about 18,000km. We’ve been tracking the Pontiac Vibe gas [...]
No charges in fatal Embrun pileup
CBC News: No charges laid in fatal Embrun pileup It looks like the OPP have completed their investigation of the huge pileup that occured near Embrun on the 417 in February. Five people died in the accident which involved 5 tractor trailers and 33 other vehicles. The accident occured due to a sudden white-out condition on [...]
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