I have a new website that I am working on. I have registered the domain mmhack.org. This stands for Magellan Maestro Hack. Its going to be a site for hacking/extending the Magellan Maestro series of GPS devices.

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If anyone has found this post via google and is interested in helping me out with this site, please do leave a comment and make sure to fill out your actual email address. I will get back with you. I need people to help with the site, documentation, and forums at the moment.

My Christmas present this year was a Magellan 4040 GPS device. This thing is really cool. It has a 4.5 inch screen. Has bluetooth so I can make and take calls over it (through my cell phone) and has a nice text-to-speech function that works great so it speaks street names. Cool thing is, I got it for $300 at Radio Shack. This is really a low price for a unit with these features on it.

I have already hacked this thing, so now it has a fully function media player on it also.  It plays great looking movies and has excellent sound.  Supports tons of media formats.

Here are the complete specs of this device:

Here is an image of it

Yep, you read that headline right, my dad set my car on fire!

Okay, so this is what happened:

I was coming home from school and called my mom and told her my oil light was flashing on and off every now and then.  She told my dad who was with her, both in the town I was coming upon, about it and he said to meet them at wal-mart and he would put more oil in my car.  Well when I got there he was already coming out of the store with the oil.  My car had only been off for a minute once he lifted the hood.

Basically it was dark and he missed the hole a bit with the oil.  It ran down the very hot engine, I guess from not having oil it makes them burning red hot, and it almost immediately broke out in flames.  My car’s engine, towards the back, from one side to the other was totally on fire!

Luckily there was snow on the ground and my dad promptly started throwing snow all over the engine.  After about a minute (yep it burned for at least a minute) he put the fire out.  Okay, here’s the amazing part… my car still runs perfectly fine! Or at least as good as it did before the fire.

Kind of weird for my engine to be on fire for a good minute yet still run, at least in my opinion.  Either way, my dad is now barred from putting oil in my car ever again.  Next time, I will take it to the shop.

You can now contact me in a whole new way! Starting today, you can text me on my cell phone through my website. You must create an account with JWJKP (another one of my sites) to use the feature. Obviously this is to stop people from sending me a ton of messages. You are also currently limited to sending 2 messages per hour. Also, only 5 messages total can be sent to me an hour total.

If you want to check this out, click here.

Over the weekend my family grew.  I’d like to introduce Bailee Jefferson!  Bailee, a female Pomeranian.  Her coat is pretty much completely black.  She weighs in at two pounds and 10 weeks old.  She should grow to be about the size of our other dog Pappy Pierre Jefferson.

Bailee really is taking to Pierre fine, trying to play with him all the time.  However, Pierre (who is naturally scared of anything that moves) is taking it slow, but they did chase each other around earlier today.  This was a great sight to see as we didn’t know how Pierre would respond.

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