Car fiasco????

It seems my Toyota Auris was defective. The gas pedal was sticky. I took it to the garage on Monday 29th March to have it fixed. To tell you the truth I haven't been able to try the fix out because yesterday Thursday 1st April the battery drained and although I charged it all night it is no use, it goes out in several hours. Too bad, I hope the guarantee covers that.
.

UPDATE (11th April, 2010): Fortunately I got a new battery replaced at the garage for free. The gas pedal seems to work just fine. I haven't been able to notice any other defect after the fix. Let's keep fingers crossed!!!

By the way yesterday I got the letter informing me of the possibility of a defect in the gas pedal. It's not that it arrives too late. It's just that I first received an e-mail from Toyota and took the car to the garage. And this letter comes from the Traffic Department of my country. Everything's ok. Of course I do not have to go to the service again (lol)

Now I can say again that 'I love my Toyota'. 

Yumi

Today I'm excited about the new member of our pet family. It's a female hamster we call Yumi. It's very young but she seems to get along well with our male Skippy but I have to prepare a new house for her because I do not think Skippy is willing to share his.

Tomorrow I'll try to upload some pictures.

Puppy linux

This week I've been playing with a wonderful toy: Puppy linux (v.4.2 k 2.6.21.7) I know it's more than just a toy. It's a full featured linux suite, only that it's small and lovely.

I discovered Puppy linux long ago, maybe five years or so. I took it really seriously in 2007 when (I learnt) it could be installed into a flash drive. I tried it in deep and even wrote a howto (in Spanish) for the asc website. I spent hours and hours playing with my puppy.

This time I have almost exclusively used it in my eeepc 701. I burnt the iso image onto a cd as usual and using the universal installer I prepared a bootable pendrive of 1 GB. It works great, the only thing is that I haven't been able to configure the wifi card so far. I know it is perfectly possible because I have read somewhere that puppy is suitable for the eeepc, but no luck so far. I am sure I'll be able to do it during the Easter holiday. I'll have lots of free time for my little puppy. By the way, this version of puppy looks very much like Vista. It's done on purpose for linux newbies.

Have a nice Easter break and don't eat too many chocolate eggs. Bad for your tummy!!!

Penguin Speakers

Look what awesome speakers I bought at the Chinese shop last weekend! Aren't they cool?


To tell you the truth I was looking for a stuffed penguin for my Toyota but I couldn't find any. I made this great discovery though. Besides, they sound well. They even have a 3D  button which highlights sound.



I'm thrilled LOL

---

TOYOTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally decided Toyota!!!!!!! I think I've made the right choice. The car is awesome. It's fast, reliable and above it all it's a Toyota. Love it!!!!!!!!!

Well a picture is worth a million words as always...

---

El Vedadet

"El Vedadet" is the name of my cottage. It is also the generic name of the local area where it is located.


A very dear friend of mine has sent me this present done by himself in his spare time. Thank you very much. I really appreciate it.

---

No News is Good News!!!

I haven't written for some weeks now but I've got the perfect excuse this time. I'm looking for a new car. I mean that I have finally decided to bid farewell to my old bucket and get a primered flames sports car.

I have been considering several options but I've cut it down to these two: i30 or Auris. I like both. I'm leaving you several pictures in the hopes that  you help me decide.

Hyunday i30 interior

This is the lovely Hyundai i30. 

I think it is awesome.

 Out of this world. 

I like everything about it.

Toyota Auris

Toyota Auris interior