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Category : Play

Short wave radio and scanning recording

Categories: Geekdom, Ham Radio, Play, Technology
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: August 23, 2005

I am working on finding a good way to record the stuff I listen to off of the short wave radio. and off of the scanner. So far I have tried GarageBand but that has a limit of 1 hour and fifteen minutes. Right now I am trying a program called AudaCity, if it works[…]

The Wplug picnic

Categories: Friends, Geekdom, Play, Technology
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: August 7, 2005

The wplug picnic was today. It was up in Whitehall. Bike up to it, it took me 2 and a quarter hours to bike up there. And the way back only took me 3/4ths of an hour. The picnic was alot of fun, food, and a few games. You can see some of the pictures[…]

Podcasts

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Published on: August 5, 2005

I think Podcasting is a mixed bag right now. There are many people doing it, I have read that there are many pod casts that are really bad. I know of a few podcasts that I do like, but also these podcasts are real radio shows that are on the air, and are professionally done.[…]

What a day

Categories: Biking, Pittsburgh stuff, Play
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: May 21, 2005

I started out at 10am to go to the Venture Outdoors festival, on my way there I find there is also a French and Indian war thing going on at the point. I stop and take a look around, it is not very large but it was nice to see, I found out that they[…]

KFUO now is pod casting

Categories: Church, Play, Technology
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Published on: March 25, 2005

One of the internet radio stations I like has started to do pod casting. The station is KFUO, and the radio show I really like is Issues Etc. It will be nice since I can not listen to it in full live, I can now at lest have it downloaded automatically to my computer and[…]

Old scuba pictures

Categories: Play, Web Site
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Published on: March 10, 2005

I have just uploaded some old pictures scuba pictures that I took back in 1995 in Australia and I have put them in my photo section of my site. These are old pictures that were taken with a disposable waterproof camera. Then scanned into the computer only a few months ago. These are not the[…]

Supper Bowl party

Categories: Games, Play
Comments: 4 Comments
Published on: February 6, 2005

I just got back from a supper bowl party. It was fun, I did not watch much of the game about only 20 minutes of play, I spent more time playing cards with my friends that were there. We played 2 different games Fluxx and Pounce. See the link for info on how to play[…]

Oh Wow

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Published on: January 21, 2005

I got invited on a ski trip so I though I would go on it. So I started to look for the stuff I payed for last year when I went snowboarding, that I will never do again. But I could not find any matching gloves, at first. While looking for the second to just[…]

This Blog Share Thing looks like it could be intersting.

Categories: Hay it is funny, Play
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Published on: October 30, 2004

I know it is not real money but it seems to be a bit fun I am going to play with it some more and see what I think about it in a few days.

Over at DeviantArt

Categories: Play
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Published on: October 25, 2004

Well I got 2 comments so far about the pictures I posted on deviant art (mpost4.deviantart.com) both of them ok, but now really content on the quality of the pictures. But both of them loved the pictures because they love the city of Pittsburgh. I figure I will add 1 or 2 a day and[…]

Why

Categories: Geekdom, Play, Technology
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: October 23, 2004

Why do I spend so much time on Slashdot? It is fun at times, but for the most part it’s sophomoric for the most part. I should start trying to wean my self of Slashdot. It is in my best interest. But for some reason I always go back to it, it is like it[…]

Photograhs over at deviantart

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Published on: October 23, 2004

I am right now submitting some photographs over at Deviant Art. You can see my page there under my name there mpost4 but there is not much there and all of the stuff there is already here in my Photo section here Along with allot more Pictures I have taken.

SWEET!!!!

Categories: Play, Web Site
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Published on: October 17, 2004

I just did a couple of searches on google today, one was to see how many pages are linked to my site, it returned 68. Before it was only returning 33. And I did a search for just my name Michael P. O’Connor and found that it is the first real hit. So if some[…]

The hard drive in the gateway laptop

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Published on: October 15, 2004

W00t it is no about 1/2 way done on the bad block scan (3028872/6801228) I am so happy it just might finish before the end of the month!!! It has been going since Sep 29!! That is one borked hard drive. The drive is toast but I am going to let this finish for the[…]

Posted this on slashdot let see if they accept it

Categories: Play, Politics
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Published on: October 8, 2004

I was in a chat with 2 of my friends and we started to talk about what would happen if Bill Gates ran for the Presidency. Would you vote for him? What do you think he would do in office? What party do you think he would be. How about Steve Jobs, Linus?

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