What a day
in Church, Hay it is funny, Play, Random Thoughts, Technology
Today I was a bit busy. After church I did not get home till late since they were doing construction on 66 (I have to go up to Alexandria for church as there are, to my knowledge any good confessional/liturgical churches in SoMD) So I decided on the way home to stop for some food (after that drive, DC belt way, for those of you that know, even on Sunday afternoon it is backed up) I get home at 2, do some reading/studying on Java (will be taking the SCJP in the next month, or so I plan. just have to pick the day) After that I start trying to resurrect my Linux box. It has 2 drives on it, one I really don’t care about as it was just the OS and stuff like that, the other drive I cared about as it is my old /home directory, and would you not know the one drive that has problems is the one I cared about (because of data) I am still hopeful I can pull my old home dir off of it. While letting the Linux install do its I played around a bit on ham radio, a few of us down here talked about have a standard simplex freq to work with (if you are ever in SoMD tune to 145.660) and got a call from a friend of mine so we spent some time Rag Chewing a bit.
Also I am making plans on how to get my Quad Core box going as a Linux box with out killing the vista partition, I have come up with the idea, that I have a spare sata drive that I am not using, 250Gb is more then Linux really needs I can keep the 1Tb drive windows, boot into linux, get VMPlayer and boot windows under Linux. While letting the Linux install do its
Still wondered how I found any time to get a bit of tin whistle playing in today, but I did.
But that is for another day as I am going to hit the hay now as I am totally spent on energy.
New Blog Setup
As you might have noticed I have redone, my blog. I have also kept my old posts, to do that, I had to first go to WP 2.0 get a script to import my bblog posts (comments and categories) migrate them to WP 2.0, then after that I removed the files for WP 2.0 and put WP 3.0 in. some of the posts got miss dated, I might fix those over the course of time, but I really did not want to keep using a blog software that was not being updated, I was getting fearful that some one would use the fact I was using a old blog software to hack my site, and put up things I did not want. I really wish that bblog still was being developed but they stopped developing it around 2005, so time to move on, I have a lot of work to do to configure this new setup to the way I want it to look. I have first started with a generic theme, I will slowly update it as the week goes by, I hope to finish by Sunday.
Why did I want to keep all my old posts, well because it is kind of a history of things as I have seen it over the last 6 years, and that could be of some random interest to random people out there, and I do not wish to hide what I have said in the past.
Pictures from a hike I did on Friday
http://photos.mikeoconnor.net/thumbnails.php?album=56 pictures from a hike I did with some friends up at the Laural Highlands (or down depending where you are coming from)
Cleaned up some files on my web space
Well I decided to clean up some files on my domain, that are not being used anymore, along with some databases for things that have been removed from my web site a while back, I had a lot of legacy stuff there. But now it is clean, for me to do more stuff to it.
PVGP 2010
On the weekend of the 24 and 25 of July I helped out in the PVGP again as a ham radio operator. I have a few pictures you can see them at http://photos.mikeoconnor.net/thumbnails.php?album=55 (also for the record I did not take these pictures, one of the flag operators took them for me, I am having trouble remembering his name I will have to look it up and I will post it once I remember his name.)
GREAT most excelant news out of the synod today
Matthew Harrison defeated the old pres of the synod, maybe we can get the synod to go back to it’s confessional roots.
This is truly a gift from God
With the attempt of the old president attempt at a power grab, this is just poetic justice. This just might be the start of the path back down the right road, after all the years that the so called “church growth” movement hurting the church with their heretical ways and “teachings”.
Pics from back on Field day of this year
http://photos.mikeoconnor.net/thumbnails.php?album=54 enjoy.
Needed a new Battery for my HT radio
Well I needed a new Battery for my VX-5. I went into a Batteries+ plus store and find that they are now $104, to much if you ask me. So I decided to be cheap…
I built a new Battery see the pics below
As you can see from the radio display it is getting 13 Volts, this should do nicely, now I just have to rig up a holster to hold both the radio and battery, and a way to be 100% sure that the power cord does not come out.
Well to truth it really is not a battery as the radio is concerned but a portable charger.
Got my verizon DSL up and cancled comcast
Finally I am off of comcast. When I called in to cancel the comcast account talk about hostal, the person tried to tell me I did not know anything about computers and my setup was all wrong and I was causing my own problem. At that point I got angry and told him 1) I know what I am doing tell him I am not an idiot when it comes to computers, listing that I am a programmer and have a BS in CS 2) their own technicians saw my setup and said nothing about it.
I am just glad to have canceled the service (both internet and TV)
The speed results, not the fastest but if it stays stable it will be better.