stinner dot com

I’ve added a ‘Contact Me‘ page combining the Contact Form ][ plugin and the Subrosa plugin. The Subrosa plugin

allows public key encryption (RSA or Elgamal, at your choice) of the WP-ContactForm at the push of a button. It also allows to see the key details and even to select a different Public Key.

Technorati Tags: Contact Form, Contact Me, encryption, GPG, PGP, Subrosa

I was browsing the iTunes Music Store tonight and one of the links on the main page caught my eye. The List: ’80s Pop Covers is a list of 80 songs, all covers of popular songs from the 80’s. Some of the songs include Alanis Morisette’s cover of The Police’s King Of Pain, No Doubt’s cover of Talk Talk’s It’s My Life, and Crowded House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over covered by Sixpence None The Richer.

Technorati Tags: 80s, cover, iTunes

Eric Medlen, driver of the Castrol Syntec Ford Mustang Funny Car for John Force Racing, passed away yesterday from injuries suffered when his race car crashed into a guardwall during a Monday test session at Gainesville Raceway. He never regained consciousness. He was 33. You can read more here.

Technorati Tags: Eric Medlen, John Force Racing

I’m a big fan of NHRA PowerADE Drag Racing but there are a few improvements I’d like to see done for the fans. They are, in no particular order:
1) Broadcast qualifying at the same time every race weekend. Qualifying now is shown anywhere between 5pm and 1am. If they broadcast qualifying at, or at least close to, the same time each race weekend, I’m sure there would be more viewers.
2) Broadcast eliminations at the same time every race weekend. This is a similar problem to the qualifying but the latest they broadcast the eliminations at is 10pm.
3) Broadcast qualifying and/or eliminations LIVE. They tried this a few years ago on Pay-Per-View and gave up after just one year. A better way to do it is to offer a discount for NHRA members and maybe offer a “Season Pass” like they have for football/baseball/hockey.
4) Broadcast qualifying and/or eliminations over satellite radio, preferably XM, but ONLY if the sound quality is a lot better than the audiocast NHRA members can listen to from NHRA.com.
5) Broadcast all sportsman categories, not just Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Alcohol Funny Car. Even if they only broadcast the final rounds of all the sportsman categories, it would be an improvement over only showing the alcohol classes.
6) Pick one non-alcohol final that was interesting/exciting and show it before the professional classes final rounds. Some fans who only see the races on TV and never go to a national event may not know there are other classes other than Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Pro Stock Bike, Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Alcohol Funny Car. It really doesn’t even have to be a final round. Any round of eliminations would do. The idea is to show fans who don’t know, that there are more categories than what’s being broadcast on TV now.

Most of these suggestions have been made by other people on other sites, including ClassRacer.com. I figure the more it gets said, the more NHRA might actually listen.

Technorati Tags: NHRA

I have updated my PGP/GPG public key. It can be found here.

Just for the hell of it, I decided to Google the name of a racer my father used to work for, Frank Iaconio. The first link was to a photo album containing images of cars driven by either Frank or another racer Ray Allen. Ray is the guy that used to drive the 1970 Chevelle LS6 for Briggs Chevrolet, which sold over a year ago at Barrett-Jackson for $1.15 Million.

For a while now I’ve been thinking about replacing my RSS feed with FeedBurner so that I could see exactly how many people are subscribing to my feed. I finally installed the FeedBurner Feed Replacement Plugin for WordPress. Now when someone subscribes to my regular feed, they automatically get the FeedBurner feed. The plugin is even recommended by FeedBurner themselves. I was surprised to see I have over a dozen subscribers. I wonder how many of them are not related to me.

Technorati Tags: FeedBurner, plugin, RSS Feed, WordPress

Somebody actually took the time to sync up the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off reference from the end of The Untold Story of Stewie Griffin with the part from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off it references.

Technorati Tags: Family Guy, Ferris Bueller, Stewie Griffin