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The Pictures are up

Categories: News
Comments: 3 Comments
Published on: February 5, 2006

The pictures are now up. Also if you see the picture of the car that was overturned, I just heard on the police scanner that the car has been set on fire, I am so glad that I came home when I did, that has got to be dangerous, and I do not want to[…]

Post game maddness

Categories: News
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Published on: February 5, 2006

Well after the game I went with some friends down to Pitt. It was good at first, but after we where there for a bit, some of the students flipped a car over. I did get some pictures of it, I will post the pictures later. But when the police left the care, they are[…]

It is Half Time

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Published on: February 5, 2006

Yes this non-football fan is watching the Super Bowl, I am because I am at my churches Super Bowl Party. And this is cool we are leading 7 to 3. Also check out Robs site unspace.net he has alot of Super Bowl Links.

Computer Problems

Categories: Technology
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Published on: February 5, 2006

Ug, the hard drive on my Linux box seems to be having some major problems, Bad sectors and all. So what I am trying to do, is since it only is happening on the /home partion, and that partion is 100Gb large and I only have 30Gb of data on it, and the problem seems[…]

The one for the Thumb, Here we go Steelers Here we go

Categories: Friends, Holoday stuff
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Published on: February 5, 2006

Well this was funny today. First before I get into what I found funny, I will admit I am 1 of the 5 non-football fans in Pittsburgh, yes there are about 5 of us in the city, please please don’t hunt us down and kill us ;-). Also I have a friend that lives in[…]

What to do with 2 domains I have

Categories: Geekdom, Web Site
Comments: 3 Comments
Published on: February 3, 2006

I have 2 domains that I am not using right now and wondering from my friends what should I do with them. The first is congeek.com and the other is geeksforlife.org Right now their is nothing up there, I want to do something with them, so I ask my friends what should I do with[…]

Tagged… I’m It: Meme of Four

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Published on: February 3, 2006

I have been taged by Small But Disorganized so I guess I should anser it [b]Four Jobs I’ve Had[/b] 1. Computer Programmer (CMU and current) 2. Computer Operator (CMU) 3. Undergrad Teaching Assistance (at Pitt) 4. Software installer (for my old high school, well it was installing Windows 95 on some computers so not really[…]

Pens vs Senators

Categories: Hockey
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Published on: February 2, 2006

OUCH!!! First that is what I have to say about the game OUCH!!!!! I was at the game tonight, you can see the pictures I took tonight here. The Pens start out strong and end the first period 2 to 0. In the second Ottawa gets a penalty, and is short handed, this is where[…]

Solution to the Virtual Class Inheritance cast

Categories: Technology
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Published on: February 2, 2006

In my last post, I talked about using Virtual Class Inheritance, and was thinking about how to cast it. well I have come up with from books and talking with others to try this: [code] // See http://blog.mikeoconnor.net/?postid=874 // for the class defs grandchild* Base2grandchild(Base *ptr) { grandchild *toBeReturned; try { toBeReturned = dynamic_cast(ptr); return[…]

Virtual Class Inheritance

Categories: Technology
Comments: 3 Comments
Published on: February 2, 2006

I am going to post some evil now, I will cover more on it later. But a program I am working on has gotten to a point to where I ended up needing to do something like [code] class Base { public: int value }; class child1 : public Base { }; class child2 :[…]

Stupid item of the day

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Published on: February 2, 2006

The BBC is running an article about an idiot who is suing Apple computers over the dangers of the iPod. He claims there are not adequate warnings on the device about the dangers of hearing loss on it. I guess if he wins we will see yet another stupid warning label, maybe it should read[…]

The Open Pitt

Categories: WPLUG
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Published on: February 2, 2006

I was holding off on talking about this one, I wanted to make sure it got published first, but for wplug‘s news letter The Open Pitt I have started a small monthy artical, called “Links of the Month” The link I gave above is from the Jan issue of the Open Pitt, I have another[…]

Cindy Sheehan at the State of the Union Address

Categories: News, Politics
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: February 2, 2006

As most people probably have heard that Cindy Sheehan was arrested yesterday for a T-Shirt she unveiled just before before The State of the Union Address from President Bush. There are a range of opinions of this on both sides, I will list 5 blogs (blog sites not news sites, this will give you an[…]

I think I am going to be sick

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Published on: February 1, 2006

Ever seen a burger with 100 patties on it I saw this the other day, and I felt like I wanted to visit the bathroom to expel my lunch from my mouth.

My 40Gb iPod down to its last 6Gb

Categories: Geekdom, Technology
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: February 1, 2006

Well with all the Podcasts I am subscribed to I took my iPod that had only 13Gb of songs on it, to being filled to 34Gb of data. Maybe I should limit the number of PodCasts I copy to it, I probaby will not really worry about it till I get down to my last[…]

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