Replacing 2013 Toyota Prius C air filters

Because my Prius C is not covered under the free 2-year Toyota maintenance anymore, I wanted to minimize the amount of work I needed the dealership to do at my service appointments. Air filters are commonly a giant rip-off at dealerships after the materials markup and labor costs and usually trivial to replace. After replacing the cabin and engine air filters for my Toyota at about 30k miles, I have to agree. (more…)

Fixing MediaWiki CategoryTree GetModuleStyles error

Since updating to version 1.26 of MediaWiki, category pages with CategoryTree subcategories would display the following error:

Warning: OutputPage::getModuleStyles: style module should define its position explicitly: ext.categoryTree.css ResourceLoaderFileModule [Called from OutputPage::getModuleStyles in /home/$USER/public_html/includes/OutputPage.php at line 623] in /home/$USER/public_html/includes/debug/MWDebug.php on line 300

Warning: OutputPage::getModuleStyles: style module should define its position explicitly: ext.categoryTree.css ResourceLoaderFileModule [Called from OutputPage::getModuleStyles in /home/$USER/public_html/includes/OutputPage.php at line 623] in /home/$USER/public_html/includes/debug/MWDebug.php on line 300

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Airline carry-on sizes

Since I’m such a research fanatic, I thought it would be helpful to post random comparison/info charts of miscellaneous information on my blog. The last research binge I was on was for luggage carry-on sizes of all the different airlines in the world. I wanted a new carry-on recently but wanted to make sure that it would fit within all the airline guidelines before I splurged on something of good quality. (For the record, I ended up buying an Air Boss by Red Oxx, 21″L x 8″W x 13″H [53.3cm L x 20.3cm W x 33cm H].) (more…)