Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

If you read the title, you may say “no kidding” to yourself, but sometimes we lose sight that there can be more than one way to approach a problem.

For instance, I have a car with a dead battery, and no matter how I tried to mend it with distilled water, trickle charging, discarge, etc- it just wa...

I haven’t written things here for ages, mostly due to the proliferation of “Social Media”, and not really finding it necessary to keep my blog “up to date”. I probably should have- alas, I did not. Thanks to the volatile nature of internet services that others control, so many pictures and writings...

Although I haven’t felt like sharing much over the last few years, I’ve recently rebuilt the site to redirect any URLs to the HTTPS (SSL) service, utilizing a “Let’s Encrypt” X3 key.

This ensures that anything you lookup is not being sniffed, or altered- between your computer and my server. It’s h...

Yes- I’ll be the first to admit that it has been awhile.

I’ve all but abandoned my blog. Heck, that mushroom on top? That has been there since February, 2006 (happy almost anniversary), and only a few pages back take you to 5 years ago on my posts here- even though the software, and my developme...

I intended to send this a few months ago, but never set it live.

Tom Magliozzi, of CarTalk fame, died today.

I have never been a huge NPR fan, but between David Sedaris and Click ‘n’ Clack, I always found my way over there at certain times. I’m listening to their old archives on TuneIn. I forgot just how little of the show involved cars near the end. The two ju...