The site is not 100% done and will never be. I will continue to tweak and update the site weekly.

Earlier this week I had (what I hope is) the final iteration of the EPIC 2008+ STi springs fitted.  Pending a few more road and drive ability tests we should be going into production with them shortly.  This will be followed by more heavy website updates.

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I have had this problem with two computers running both Windows Vista and Windows 7.

All seem to be when I am using my Samsung monitors through DVI port.

The reason is because Photo Viewer uses a color profile that is not properly calibrated. The easy fix is to switch the color profile to the standard IE color Profile…

Step 1: Go to your “Color Management”

Easiest way to find “Color Management” is the start menu search box.

Step 2: Select your monitor

Step 3: Check “Use my settings for this device”

Step 4: Click “Add” and select “sRGB IEC61966-2.1″

Step 5: Set as “Default” and close out

Your photo viewer should look normal now.

Questions I frequently get asked by friends and other patients is what it does to your body and will you recover 100%. ( Be the same afterwards )

I can not speak on behalf of all Chemo patients… But, I HAVE recovered 100% and with some hard work got myself to the best shape I have ever been in my life.

Dealing with Cancer is a very much a layered cake. All I am going to go into detail about here are the effects Chemo has on your body and how long it took for me to get back to normal. I will write more on other aspects of the whole experience in other posts.

Chemotherapy

Let me start by listing what changes your body goes through from JUST the Chemo ( Not of the meds ) in little detail.

In the most basic explanation… Chemo stops anything that grows / re-generates from doing so…

• You lose your hair ( Everywhere your hair noticeably grows in your Chemo time frame )
• You lose ALL of your energy ( Partly from the drugs )
• Your stomach begins to ache non stop ( Acid reflux and Heartburn are a daily battle )
• Your skin stop regenerating ( Hyperpigmentation and paleness - Your bruises cuts do not heal )
• Your nails stop growing
• Your taste and smell go away
• Your hearing decreases and you hear constant ringing
• Your muscle goes away ( Partly from not eating as much and not being physical )
• Your saliva becomes very thick

Those are the major physical changes you will experience.

4 Weeks into Chemo – Lost all my hair

Recovery:

Lets start with the last day of chemo…

After 1 week – My saliva went back to normal

After 2 weeks – My taste and smell came back and all stomach related symptoms went away

After 3 weeks – My hearing normalized

After 4 weeks – My hair began to grow ( Came back blond at first )

After 5-8 weeks – My cuts started to show signs of healing

After 9 weeks –  At this point I was able to start exercising and my energy started to normalize ( Not sleeping 14 hours a day ). I began to work out 5 days a week with more pain and recovery down time then I have ever experienced in the past.

After 14 weeks – The fat that I gained started to go away.  My muscle started to come back slowly ( Still struggling with above normal pain ) but, was finally noticeable.

After 18 weeks – My hair was normal again. I was cutting it every 2 weeks… It started blond… Went curly… And is now 100% the same way it was before Chemo.

After 22 Weeks – I am 100% with the exception of my skin.  It appears normal but, will still take another 6 months to be as resilient as before.

Details

Me: I was 24 when I was diagnosed and went through the treatment.

Diet: Nothing special… Went to a normal diet, drank alcohol, little fast food, not on a schedule, etc… It is safe to say that if you give yourself a more strict diet you would recover faster.

Before Chemo my weight was 180lbs at 6′1″ ( Mostly muscle )

After Chemo my weight was 150lbs at 6′1″ ( Mostly fat )

After 5 months my weight is 195lbs at 6′1″ ( Less than 8% body fat )

Closing

Right before I started chemo I researched on the Internet about the long term effects it would have on my body. I found very little encouraging news and scared myself quite a bit. There where people saying “you will never be the same”, “your hair will come back different”, “your energy will never come back” etc… This was all untrue for me. Those effects where temporary and with some hard work I was 100% again.  It was frustrating and slow going at times but, it was not a problem to find motivation.

I hope this answered some of your questions and if you are about to enter Chemo or just finished… Don’t stress, give it time, you WILL be normal again.

For my friends: This is not the write-up that I have promised you. This is strictly the effect of the drug on my body. I should be done with the other shortly.

Kind Regards

Dan Antonielli

The below gallery has images of me taken by Chelsea Taylor 5 months after Chemo.

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World CNG specialize in alternative fuel packaging, applications, infrastructure and support

Some of the new features are:

• Blog
• RSS Feed
• Fuel Ticker
• Comment System
• Etc

The site will be updated daily with general information regarding CNG ( Compressed Natural Gas ) Globally, Nationally, and locally.

Please take a look for yourself and leave any feed back you may have.

www.WoldCNG.com

The only issue I have run into are with programs that are not optimized for Windows 7 ( Such as Skype ) but, the latest batch of Win Updates have cleared that up and I expect that to continue over the next few months.

See the screenshot gallery and details after the jump…

Performance:

Intel Atom CPU N270 @ 1.6GHZ and 1GB of ram

Runs fast and stable. Much quicker then XP in general OS use.

Here is a list of programs I use regularly: WMP 12, Word 2007, Excel 2007, Fireworks CS4, IE8, Chrome 2, Filezilla, and Skype

I did disable some of the visual effects to conserve batter life.  (Check the screenshot gallery)

Battery life:

It is a little bit less but almost negligible.  With my 3-Cell batter I average 2.5-3.5 hours of use and double that with my 6-Cell.

Bottom line:

I am very happy with Windows 7 on this machine and will not go back to XP.  If you have a net book… I would recommend switching to Windows 7. I have been running smoothly on 1GB of ram for a few weeks and I do not really see a benefit in sticking with XP.

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Regards

Dan Antonielli

Eibach is currently a bit behind but I should have the springs by mid June.

Here are a couple of images I took of Eibach USA facility.

Eibach Facility #1

Eibach Facility #2

Kind Regards

Dan Antonielli

directly after the first restart the installer hangs on “Completing Installation”

I have installed Windows 7 on all of my machines ( The RC 7100 build ) ranging form Netbooks to Quad-Core powerhouses with 8gigs of RAM.  Recently I ran into this issue and figured out what I was doing wrong after 2 failed attempts.

On the “Where do you want to install Windows” page I was just formatting the partition I wanted and clicking “Next”

THAT IS WHAT I DID WRONG!

I did the following and it was smooth sailing from there.

DO NOT just hit “Format”

“Delete” then “Allocate”

It will then create 2 partitions.

Par 1 –  Will be called “System Allocated” and only be 100mb ( This was the key )

Par 2 –  Will be your new OS volume

( You can also just leave the area “Unallocated” and click “Next” )

Where do you want to install Windows?

I will be updating this page as frequently as I can with interesting events, news, information, etc… of my life, projects, and hobbies.

Please check back frequently.

Kind Regards
Dan Antonielli