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I live in Northern Virginia and can pretty easily metro into the city. I have stuff ready but I can't decide if I really want to go down or not. Anyone else making the journey? Anyone who would go if they lived as close as I do? Thanks, Ed S.

Returned from a week in Florida to a bunch of these things dead by my window. I cleaned them up but this morning there were more crawling up the window. I put one in the freezer for a minute and dropped it in front of my marco lens. What kind of bug is it? Should I be concerned about...

<a href="http://pickensplan.com" /><img src="http://media.pickensplan.com/img/badges/badge_wtp_06_300.jpg"></a> Summary [WSJ.com June 17, 2008]: Mr. Pickens believes the US can generate a large percentage of its electricity from wind. If we take the natural gas were using for electrical...

This is way off topic but I know there are some videographers around. Problem: I mis-aligned the IEEE 1394 (Firewire) connection on my PC's mainboard. This error sent 12V power from the PC to signal on the camera. There was a puff of smoke as soon as I connected the camera to the PC. The...

Both Newegg.com and Micro Center offer extended warranties through a 3rd party provider named Service Net. I trust Newegg and Micro Center but dealing with a 3rd party warranty provider can be a pain. The plan doesn't cover normal wear & tear so I can see them saying that a part failed due to...

I have a Dell Dimension 4500 from December 2002. It has a P4 2.2GHz processor. The processor uses a passive aluminum heat sink which has air drawn over it by a ducted fan mounted to the back of the case. The design is efficient in that it uses a single fan to cool the processor and draw warm...

...Ooo Ooo, me me me (stupid) I think the right answer is "what is 5 US Quarts, Alex". So, hypothetically speaking, what damage could one do if they put 4.75 quarts into the FS-DE rather then, say, 3.75 quarts? Would any so called "damage" get considerably worse, if said driver did this over...

When I washed my car today I noticed that the driver side wheel had more brake dust accumulation then the passenger side. Is there something I can look for or a test procedure to see why this might be happening? I was think maybe the caliper slide is sticking, but I'm not sure that would cause...

I swapped a 160GB drive for a 400GB drive because I needed more space but feared for my power supply's ability to spin three disks. This drive is used to hold all my non-program data; pictures, music, Office docs, etc. So now I have the 160GB chilling in the plastic box the new drive came in...

I've been searching for a specific procedure to installing the RR Racing inserts in the rear engine mount. I think I have an alternate procedure but I need to know from someone thats messed with the parts involved if its possible. I posted in the HOW TO for the mount replacement...feel free to...

I'm trying to throw some video onto my wife's Zune. I successfully converted a DVD using the trial version of Cucusoft SW. Now I want to try some video I've got in .AVI format. The problem is I can't find anything that will convert the video. I've tried Windows Media Encoder but it doesn't...

Tragedy struck the Kim family as the body of James Kim, CNET.com editor, was found in Big Windy Creek in southern Oregon. It appears that the Kim's made a wrong turn onto a logging road and became stuck in the snow on November 25th. James Kim left the family to find help when they ran out of...

Sianara Summer Photoshoot [Cable is good; Dial-up? Not so much so] That's all she wrote for another summer with the P5... Thanks for taking a look. Ed S.

I seem to be experiencing some front end looseness and/or clunking when I hit a bump while turning hard at low to moderate speeds. I experience this everyday pulling into the parking garage at work when I hit the entrance apron half-way through a 90-degree turn. My poorly calibrated sense of...

While this technology certainly has a ton of fuel saving potential, it sounds like it would be a great addition to any aftermarket turbo system. FTFA: "EBS uses as-needed direct injection of ethanol in a turbocharged gasoline-fueled engine to boost the overall fuel octane rating to more than...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401209.html About the author: Dr. Patrick Moore has been a leader in the international environmental field for over 30 years. He is a founding member of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace...

GM and The Apprentice have formed a marketing alliance to advertise a new product. Last time it was the Pontiac Solstace months before anyone would be able to buy them. This time its the Chevy Tahoe. The pitch is to have customers edit together their own Tahoe commercial from footage first...

Help: Paint Damage to Front Bumper I was in a fender-bender this afternoon and ended up with some cosmetic damage to the front bumper. In the picture below, I have enhanced the problem areas to make clear the type of paint damge. The questions is, how do I identify what is damaged and should...

GM is so incompitant it can't even get suicide right. From eWeek.com: "EDS, Hewlett-Packard and Capgemini emerged as the biggest winners as General Motors handed out some 7.5 billion dollars' worth of IT contracts for the next five years. The announcement was the culmination of a 10-year...

Mazda got really unlucky at the Washington DC Auto show. Their display was right across the isle from Honda. First, I was excited to see the new MS6, which promised the holy trinity of midsized sports sedans: power, agility, and refinement. I suppose my main points of dissatisfaction fall...