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I am going to try it

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Published on: February 13, 2006

I am going to turn on comments that don’t have any HTML code in them, will go live, I will do a trial run for the next week or so. If i find that I get to many spam posts that are going live, I will shut down the test, if things go well I[…]

The US woman’s hockey game

Categories: Hockey
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Published on: February 13, 2006

Well I just finished watching the US woman’s hockey game where they 5-0’ed the German team. Not a half bad game. The one thing I was disapointed in was I did not see any fights, I love fights in my hockey games, but it was still a good game. Next game for them is against[…]

US vs Germany: Woman’s Hockey

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Published on: February 12, 2006

Right now I am watching the US woman’s hockey team play against Germany. I am right now in the 2nd period. I will have to say it not like watching the NHL, but it is still a good game to watch. It is nice that during the periods there are no comercials.

Holy Moly: 6 – 3

Categories: Hockey
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Published on: February 12, 2006

This has got to hurt the Washington Capitals. Wow what a way to end this part of the time, I am going to miss hockey for the next few weeks, unless i figure out how to get the Olympic Hockey games. If you are in the Pittsburgh Area, could you let me know what station[…]

The Hockey game today

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Published on: February 11, 2006

Right now I am watching the Hockey game, I recorded it on my DVR so I am watching it late. I am still in the first half of the first period, and wow, there was a great fight. I lasted though a drop puck. I am watching the game right now as I type this[…]

Dinner with my family

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Published on: February 11, 2006

Tonight I had dinner with my family, My mother & father, my sister & her husband, and my Aunt Ellen. My sister and her husband are in town from Modling, Austria, and my aunt is also in town from Austin, TX. It was a lot of fun, we were in the restaurant for about 2[…]

Kids will always find a way to kill themselfs in an attempt to get a “buzz”

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Published on: February 10, 2006

KDKA is running story about how some kid killed themselves playing some stupid game where they try to chock themselves, in an attempt to get a “buzz”. This is one kid that deserves the Darwin award!!! I am just wondering what kind of brain failure you must have to think that strangling yourself can be[…]

WPLUG Demo Day

Categories: Technology, WPLUG
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Published on: February 9, 2006

What is Linux? How do you use Linux? What programs are avalable for Linux? What does Linux look like? Have you ever asked any of these questions? Are you wondering what I am talking about? Do you just want to hang with other Geeks? Come on down the Demo Days at WPLUG The next one[…]

Comment to the people that do pghcast

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Published on: February 8, 2006

For those of you that know about it There is a podcast called pghcast that covers topics of interst for the Pittsburgh regions. Well on Monday they did a show on the Super Bowl win (well no shocker there) but they said that they would cover the Pens next week. So I thought I would[…]

Poll for the Programmers out there

Categories: Programming
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Published on: February 7, 2006

Leave in the comments your favorit Programming language and your top 4 favorit Refernce Books for it. Here are my ansers Language: C++ Books: The C++ Programming Language:Special Edition (by Bjarne Stroustrup) Beginning Linux Programming (by Alan Cox) A great book for POSIX stuff Object-Orinted Programming in C++:2nd edition C how to program (by Deitel[…]

I have set it up, to have the comments disabled after 90 days

Categories: Blog Stuff
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: February 6, 2006

Well I asked my friend before if there would be a problem if I set up auto disabled comments after a set amount of time. Well I been getting so much spam today, and my friends said it was not a problem to have auto disabled after some a set of time. So I have[…]

Calling all Pittsburghers to defend our home

Categories: Pittsburgh stuff
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Published on: February 6, 2006

Some guy in Seattle, Dave Fox’s Outbursts does not seam to think there is much to be happy about in Pittsburgh. I would say go over there and tell him what you love about Pittsburgh.

Attack of the spammers

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Published on: February 6, 2006

First I saw Rob over at unspace state that he saw a jump in the amount of spam on his blog, and today, I been getting about 10 to 20 spam messages a every 10 minutes.

CMU was empty today

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Published on: February 6, 2006

Well when I went to work today (I work at CMU) it felt empty, there was almost no one there, and a bit lonly with no one around. Oh well.

Listening to the Police Scanner

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Published on: February 5, 2006

Well I am listening to the Police scanner since I am wondering what the riots are doing, the thing that I am hearing is that the riots are contained to the Oakland section of the city, and inside of that contained on the Pitt campus and where the Pitt undergrads live, that is assuming I[…]

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