Bri’s New Car

I got around to uploading the pictures Rex took this weekend after we fixed up Bri’s new car. He bought it for her at a dealer auction in Milwaukee after we spent most of the summer looking for the right one. It’s a 2000 BMW Z3 2.5L, the same one that James Bond drives in Goldeneye. She had looked at Mini’s, BMW 3-series, Audi TT’s, and even some older Porches since she wanted a smaller car. Z3′s are pretty reasonably priced since BMW has replaced it with the new Z4 and she has the advantage that Rex and I have all the part catalogs and knowledge to work on them. The car is small, fast, and quick. I haven’t driven it to much but Bri seems to really like it. There’s still some more work to do this weekend since we couldn’t get it all finished up but if you want to check out the pictures they are here as well as on Facebook.

More On Photos

Speaking of pictures, I’ve becoming more and more frustrated with the zenphoto software package I use to manage pictures on this site. It’s a very cool open source project that I’ve been able to customize to my needs. The problem is as I’ve grown the number of pictures to over 2000 now, it’s slow. Really slow. I thought maybe it was an issue with my host provider since they were doing some server migrations but those are all finished and it still is unbearably slow. This has led me to consider a photo hosting service like Yahoo or Flickr. I’ve played around with Flickr some and it seems very cool. Amy, a girl I work with, swears by it and she has a couple thousand photos on it. It seems much faster and has some more bleeding-edge features like location-tagging and RSS feeds. I’m still debating if I want to take the $25/year plunge. It would also require me to re-upload all 2000+ photos I have on iJFP to Flickr. If you’ve had good luck with Flickr or problems trying to view pictures on my site I’d like to hear. Dave’s zenphoto seems relatively fast but he has less pictures and his host might be faster. Perhaps I need to switch website hosts.