May 21, 2009 by David | Posted in Other - Cars & Transportation
I've used it plenty of times before. I've also used gas from raceway, circle k, tom thumb... blah blah blah. But I was just wondering about this so-called nitrogen enriched fuel. Shell claims that the nitrogen molecules stabilize better an resist thermal
I think its a marketing gimmick
bayareart1 | May 21, 2009
International Harvester Tom Thumb 1HP Engine
This is a project completed, but it still needs some tuning adjustments. We will be discussing it on the Smokstak bulletin board.
tom thumb hit & miss gas engine by Bill Shoop
Tom Thumb 1/2 scale gas engine built in 2005 by Bill Shoop
Ravenglass and Eskdale,MINITURE TRAIN THE TOM THUMB TRAIN HAWKSHEAD RAVENSGLASS RUN
Cumberland (Cumbria). "And a real Tom Thumb engine...perfect in every detail..." High angle shot of passengers climbing into miniature ...
Tom thumb engine cleaned and ported
since im making a new model, i cleaned the engine and made the exaust port a bit bigger.
TWIS#24- Cast Iron acquired and what it means for the Cloudsourcing Glue
Cloudsourcing- why is it important? IBM to buy Cloud integrators Cast Iron- the boys in blue just got very serious about cloud How to price your SaaS app HP to buy Palm- the Mobile OS world just got a whole lot more interesting…. Apple vs Adobe- the war continues Closed vs Open Garden- what should we think and who’s side should we take? The Very disappointing VMforce announcement. How many flavours of PaaS do we need? Analysis of James Hamiltons Mix10 presentation- it’s not all that rosy you know… Positive statistics on SaaS adoption from interop and Gartner Interview with IDC Security Guru Eric Domage Plus naming a startup, Amazon in Asia, Sean Murphy on SLL, Trident SaaS market update and KaChing on Continuous Deployment
TWIS#24
Dilbert of the week:
Breaking news - as I begin to write this IBM is to buy Cast Iron Systems- providers of cloud to cloud and cloud to on-premise integration.
Why is this important? Don’t API’s do everything?
Cloudsourcing is sourcing complete solutions to run your business from the cloud—by knitting together cloud applications, cloud platforms, and cloud infrastructure. Each stage in the path towards complete cloudsourcing presents unique challenges but comes with step change in benefits. When you go from adopting point SaaS solutions to multiple cloud platforms, you need to deal with more complex data management, user management and governance issues. However, this will also come with step change in business agility and user effectiveness.
By running your entire business on cloud-based IT applications and services, cloudsourcing can dramatically lowers your IT costs.  And, running your business on a pre-integrated suite of cloud-based applications results in a better-integrated, more flexible and elastic technology foundation for your business operations.