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Date : September 2005

Update on the ill Tetra

Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: September 14, 2005

I can not sleep right now, but now the Tetra has stopped laying on the bottom of the tank on the sand (see this post for more info, and if you can offer more infomation please let me know), but now has stated to swim around, not much since the lights are out, but at[…]

More lights for the Betta tanks

Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: September 14, 2005

I have noticed that the plants in the middle two of my betta tanks were not doing as well as I had hoped, so I went down to the home depot to get some “work bench” lights. I also got some “grow lights” they claim to be better for indoor plants, I am not sure[…]

One of my Fishes is ill (a call for help, can anyone ID this and recomand a treatment)

Categories: Aquarium
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: September 14, 2005

On of my Red Eyed Tetra seams to have some wrong with its upper lip. I have taken a couple of pictures, it looks like to me like he got into a fight, and lost part of his upper lip, but I am not sure. I have taken him out of the 20 gallon community[…]

Testing new policy on comments

Categories: Blog Stuff, Web Site
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Published on: September 12, 2005

I have now setup my blog to let normal comments go though (unless they have any HTML in them) so right now if you send a comment that does not have HTML in it should be visible after you post it. If I see any hate posts, I will delete them, also I do reserve[…]

Yet another betta

Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: September 11, 2005

Last week I picked up another betta, I will have to take pictures of him for the site. He is all read with some blue in his fin for now. He seems to be more attacked to me already then the other 2 bettas I have. His name is Marconi, yes Marconi after Guglielmo Marconi[…]

Fun with pictures

Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: September 10, 2005

A few weeks ago I was talking with some people on a fish forum about how one of my fish sleeps. It is a Betta and he has a habit of sleeping vertically. One of the people on the forum ask if I could take a picture of him sleeping. Well since I did need[…]

Well it started

Categories: Blog Stuff, News
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: September 10, 2005

Blogs are now starting the whole “never forget” thing for tomorrow. I recognize the impact that the attacks had on America, and no we should not push it out of our collective memory, but do we have to go though the same thing every year? I am not saying we should not have a moment[…]

The Pittsburgh “blogosphere” interbreeding

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Published on: September 10, 2005

The web site Pittsburgh webloggers is a great web site, for people to see what the average Pittsburgh is thinking, and get a good cross section of the population. But I have noticed something, there seams to be some idea interbreeding going on. I have seen that some stories will start on one blog, then[…]

TV Turner card

Categories: Technology
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Published on: September 10, 2005

Today I decided to dump some money into a TV tuner card. I have been recording allot of TV on my DVR, but I don’t want to sit in front of the TV all the time. So I got the tuner card, that has a “Composite” input that allows me to have the output of[…]

Trying to correct my last name in the FCC database

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: September 10, 2005

Well I finally got around to changing my address for my FCC license for my Ham radio license. I again put in a correction to my last name, they have in the database “O’Conner” I am not an er I want it to be spelled correctly “O’Connor” that is with an or. In the note[…]

More ShortWave radio audio

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Published on: September 8, 2005

I have finally gotten around to recording the news off of the short wave radio. It has 3 sections separated by “white space” (aka silence) The first audio in the file is from Radio Vietnam, the next section is China Radio International (with just under it, on the same freq some evangelical shouting something about[…]

Track backs are back on, but with moderation

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Published on: September 8, 2005

I now have worked a bit on the site. Any trackback that comes in will go into the moderation pool so that they will not be displayed until I either approve them or copy the IP address to my banned list, and delete them. So now I put the trackback file back to its original[…]

New Feature for the comments of the blog

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Published on: September 8, 2005

I have found a new feature for the comments on my blog, if you hit the Enter key in your comment, it will now be displayed on your comment so you can now format your comments so that you can have paragraphs (I know of only 2 people who post here that might make us[…]

Upgreade to the blog software here

Categories: Blog Stuff, Web Site
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Published on: September 8, 2005

I just got the latest version of the bBlog software and installed it on my site, it all looks fine. I have kept my modifications that I have made to my site, so you the users/readers should not see any changes. The changes are mainly on the admin side of the site. I don’t really[…]

What do Hurricane victumes need most?

Categories: News, Politics
Comments: 3 Comments
Published on: September 7, 2005

Is it food? Water? Shelter? Well according to Plan “Parenthood” no they don’t need those 3 things most. Plan “Parenthood” thinks they need abortions most. This looks to me that Plan “Parenthood” is just pushing their addenda, yes I admit I am pushing my addendahere, but the difference is I am not asking people for[…]

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