Scott Loftesness
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We Wrote the Book!
Scott’s Google Reader- How To Use A WordPress Content Template To Write Faster
- Creative Like a Fox! Dan Roam and I Compare Notes on Creative Process
- The Two-Headed Beast of Successful Habit Change
- Automatic W-9s with PDFpen
- Dr. Drang’s Writer Workflow
- Visualizing Apple’s Quarterly Results
- Announcing Kepler's 2020!
- ScrivWatcher, one more time
- 10 Keys to Giving the Greatest Presentation of Your Life
- Automator workflow of the month: Clear the iPod photo cache
- Scott’s Instapaper
- The Power of a Hug and Five Other Lessons Learned on the Road
- The Two-Headed Beast of Successful Habit Change
- Anonymous And The War Over The Internet
- A discussion with David Farber: bandwidth, cyber security, and the obsolescence of the Internet - O'Reilly Radar
- The Financial War Against Iran - Economic Intelligence (usnews.com)
- Why Every Entrepreneur Should Self-Publish a Book
- Glock - The Rise of America’s Gun - By Paul M. Barrett - Book Review - NYTimes.com
- City Of Fortune - How Venice Ruled the Seas - By Roger Crowley - Book Review - NYTimes.com
- Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Google - latimes.com
- Wired 9.03: Founding Father
Category Archives: Honda Civic Hybrid
The Bane of Batteries – My 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid
I’m back from our local Honda dealer where I got the news that my 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid needs a new IMA battery. That’s the big battery (behind the seat in my Civic) the helps boost acceleration in concert with … Continue reading
Update: 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid and Tires
I continue to be very pleased with my 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid that I purchased almost exactly three years ago. The car now has 39,000 miles on it and continues to get 41-42 miles per gallon in the everyday routine … Continue reading
Honda’s Insight – The Hybrid for Everyone
Earlier this week, Honda introduced the new Honda Insight, a new, lower-cost hybrid car scheduled to be available “later this spring”. Press reports say that the new Insight will sell for several thousand dollars less than the Toyota Prius. From … Continue reading
Sunday Musings Heading Home
I was up in San Francisco for a few hours today taking some photos (playing with hand-held HDR again) – and came back along the Pacific Ocean on the Great Highway to Interstate 280 heading back home. The sun was … Continue reading
Our Improving Quality of Life
A reader commented to Gary Richard’s Roadshow column in this morning’s San Jose Mercury News about how there’s a silver lining in the high fuel prices – our quality of life is improving. We’re driving less, polluting less, etc. There … Continue reading
Every Trip Is a Race for Fuel Efficiency
The Washington Post has an article in today’s edition by Michael S. Rosenwald titled “For Hybrid Drivers, Every Trip Is a Race for Fuel Efficiency“. Wow, that’s so true. I’ve blogged before about my 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid – which … Continue reading
Cutting Back
The US Department of Transportation announced today that “estimated vehicle miles traveled (VMT) on all U.S. public roads for March 2008 fell 4.3 percent as compared with March 2007 travel. This is the first time estimated March travel on public … Continue reading
Honda Civic Hybrid Update
It’s been almost exactly 19 months since I traded my Audi A6 4.2 for a 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid. In my last update on the car – after only 100 days – I commented “So far, I’m really pleased with … Continue reading
Oil Addiction
Tom Friedman’s column in tomorrow’s New York Times is about how the price of oil had a major influence on the collapse of the Soviet Union – and how we just might be able to do it again. Last year, … Continue reading
One Man Show
I’ve never gone to a movie before where I was the only one in the theatre. I kid you not. Have you? That happened to me this afternoon when I went to see “Who Killed the Electric Car?” at a … Continue reading
