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I have all of the pictures from Prague and London up in the gallery, check them out.

  

I stumbled across a mini site for the new type 997 Porsche 911 Turbo. The car hasn’t been ‘officially released’ yet, but the site is pretty cool. There is an extensive video of the history of Porsche and their use of turbo chargers, and some quality wallpapers for your desktop.

Specs:

• 480HP @ 6000rpm
• 457 ft/lb torque
• 0-62 mph in 3.9 seconds
• $122,900

Masterwerk. The new Porsche 911 Turbo.

note: flash player required.

Google, I aplogize to you, for I have now found my new favorite search engine. I dedicate a certain amount of time during my workday to browsing the internet, and i happened across Gizoogle. Gizoogle provides the same search engine capabilities as Google, but translates search results into the universial language known as Jive. Gizoogle extends it’s Jive features even further when you click on a search result by translating that page into Jive as well.

You’ve read it right. Fengsworld is now official. Fengsworld is a product of two guys (my roomates) spending 2 days on the sofa, inebriated, and recording it all to make the greatest podcast ever. Expect guest appearances of myself in future episodes. Don’t forget to check out the MoBlog too, definitely hours on entertainment.

I hope everyone scored some sweet toys for Christmas, and had a good time on New Years. I was home for about 2 weeks, and it was very action packed. I bought myself some new skis and spent as much time as I could on the slopes while I was home. I spent a lot of time hanging out with my family and friends too.

Katie and I drove to Pottsville and went on the Yuengling Brewery tour, I took some good pictures of the brewery and the caves below, and posted them to my photo gallery.

New Years was definitely good times. Jared, Matt, Ashley, Katie and I made some dinner, had some drinks, played Drunk Jenga, and watched the ball drop. Everyone had fun except for Matt because he can’t remember anything that happened… Check out the New Years Party pictures in the photo gallery.

   

And, if you’re bored, Here is a sweet commercial for the Audi RS4 that I found.

Oh yeah, all the presents I bought my family for Christmas, they already had. I sucked at Christmas this year.

Finally, I’ve completed the hard drive upgrade of my TiVo, and let me say it was a very bumpy road.

First, I had to find a hard drive that was a good price and at least 200gb, and CompUSA pulled through with a 200gb Seagate Barracuda drive that was on sale in their Black Friday ad. So, I headed to CompUSA at 11:30pm on Thanksgiving to be there in time for the Midnight opening, and there were at least 150 people there… Somehow or another I managed to get my hands on the hard drive I wanted, and waited in line for 2 hours to pay for it ($30 after rebates!).

After extensive research on upgrading TiVo recording capacity by replacing the hard drive, I decided to use the WeaKnees.com Interactive TiVo Instructions as my guide to the entire process. The process is fairly simply, and basically involves removing the hard drive from the TiVo and placing it in a PC with the new drive, then copying the TiVo operating system and recorded programs to the new drive. If you want more detail than that, read the directions.

The entire process of copying the original TiVo drive to the new Seagate drive took about 7 hours to copy and completed without any problems…until I put the new drive in the TiVo to see if I was successful or not. As the TiVo powered up, I smelled something burning so I immediately turned off the TiVo and opened it back up to make sure all of the connections were correct. I put everything back together, and the TiVo would not go past the boot screen, and a wonderful clicking noise was coming from the hard drive, a.k.a it was dead.

Luckily, CompUSA had another drive in stock at the local store, and they exchanged the drive for me without hassle. I repeated the entire process again yesterday, and it worked! My TiVo’s orignal maximum recording capacity was 40 hours, and is now 222 hours. Not too shabby for $30 and a few hours of work…

PS If you ever buy a TiVo, refer me when you sign up using jon@jonfrederick.com as the email address!

It’s official: this is now my favorite SUV.
Touareg W12 Sport Edtion:

• W12
• 450hp
• 20″ rims

note: the link is in German, and Google Translate makes it a bit cryptic

Last night I attended my second New England International Auto Show, and I’ve come to realize that it’s pretty much just a huge dealer lot… but what can I say, I still need to go check them all out…

The main attraction this year was Camp Jeep, which wasn’t too exciting, but definitly worth the wait…

new england auto show: pictures

ps - I updated the site beacause Matt Youse bitched for a whole month…