Taking Parts sans Database

At the suggestion of Ali, I decided to not bother pretending I’m going to build a nifty database and track all this, but to just start taking parts.

Yesterday I went to drive the Buick and the battery was nearly dead (I blame a defective solar charger that I just started using).  I got out the charger and while I was waiting for it, I thought I’d pull the battery from the Civic — after all, it’s doing it no good to be slowly discharging and I can probably use it for something else … like jump-starting the Buick. Alas, it didn’t have enough juice, but I think it helped a little in conjunction with the charger.

Now I have a car battery. I’m working on converting a gas scooter to electric, so I may use that battery to test the electronics. I got the corrosion cleaned off of it and set it to charging last night. This morning it was done, and seemingly holding a charge. I’m sure it’s not like-new, but it holds a bit of energy.

Researching WordPress Plugins

It doesn’t appear to be all that hard to build a WordPress plugin.  As best I can tell, it’s just a matter of setting up some hook functions to initialize, update, and make changes.  I probably will utilize the WordPress Post Meta methods for the tagging and naming of parts, one way or another, but add my own tables for additional information.