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featured - 2010 Special Event – ROLEX 2.4 at Daytona – 3rd Place

I’ve been around simracing for quite some time and I can safely say that I’ve only felt the way I did during Saturday’s iRacing ROLEX 2.4 at Daytona once before: It was back in 2003 when I tasked myself with re-installing Grand Prix Legends (one of the iRacing development teams previous creations) and running a [...]

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latest - X³: Terran Conflict Playing Tips

Starting Out
I think one of the strongest ways to start the game is by selecting the Argon Patriot option. This gives you a fairly well equipped Elite. Do the first few missions in the starting ship. You need the “standing” in order to progress and doing those missions will also give you a little free [...]

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latest - 2010S1 Week 4 – Skip Barber Race Series – Lime Rock – 8th Place

This weeks racing really was quite a test of patience. I ran twice in the final two time slots of the week and in both had problems that were hard to come back from. I knew I was very capable of doing 58 second laps around Lime Rock Park, so I ran a basic qualifying [...]




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recent - 2010 Special Event – iRacing Daytona 500 – 14th Place

This race is a tale of what might have been: The evening before the iRacing Daytona 500 I changed my PCs motherboard is preparation for a graphics card upgrade and unfortunately although I reinstalled Windows 7, reinstalled a bunch of programs, got iRacing working, etc, I forgot to do something terribly important…
On Saturday 13th February, [...]

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latest - Fish I’ve kept: Tiger Barbs

This page lists my experiences with Tiger Barbs. While some of the fish-related Web sites you may find may give you the scientific information, very few of them probably tell you the information in this post. I should point out however that these are my personal experiences, your mileage may vary, not least because Tiger [...]

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latest - EVE-Online Kill Report

A group of friends and I were in Otou checking out the Asteroid Belts for any resident Pirates, when we came upon a group of ships who seemed to want a fight. So, my friends (who were in far better ships that I) fought them, beat them, then they went and got more ships and wanted to go at it again.

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