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$5 per gallon gas price?

Categories: Biking, News, Politics
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Published on: September 22, 2005

CNN is reporting that gas prices after Rita could spike to over $4 maybe $5 I will have to get a picture of it. I have a picture of the $3+ gas price from here in Pittsburgh I don’t drive but I know this will even hurt me, because the companies that deliver the food[…]

From the NWS

Categories: News
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Published on: September 21, 2005

WTNT63 KNHC 212351 TCUAT3 HURRICANE RITA TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 650 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005 …RITA BECOMES THE THIRD MOST INTENSE HURRICANE ON RECORD… DROPSONDE DATA FROM AN AIR FORCE RESERVE UNIT RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT AT 623 PM CDT…2323Z…INDICATED THE CENTRAL PRESSURE HAS FALLEN TO BELOW 899 MB…OR 26.55[…]

It finally came

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: September 21, 2005

Well after all that work to get my info in the FCC database correct the final version of my License came in the mail. So tomorrow after work (or on my lunch break) I will go out to get the larger version of it framed and the wallet size one laminated for my wallet. I[…]

The domains are back

Categories: Web Site
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Published on: September 21, 2005

Before I wrote the domains off I emailed my registrar and I just got a message back that they had the problem fixed, so I have those domains for another year. I don’t think I am going to do with them what I was going to do with them before, I will have to think[…]

Dropping some of the domains I have

Categories: Technology, Web Site
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Published on: September 21, 2005

Well today I found out that one of my domains I owned expired a while back, I never got notice of this, I never got a renewal notice for that domain either. Another one I have expires today, I can not for the life of me figure out how to renew domains with my registrar.[…]

On the bike ride home today

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Published on: September 21, 2005

I had a funny thing happen to me on the bike ride home today. While I was coming down Bayard St this young girl in a red BMW must not have liked the fact that I was on “her” road. So even though there was plenty of room to pass me while staying in the[…]

PARC

Categories: Friends, Ham Radio
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Published on: September 21, 2005

I finally got up to one of the ham clubs that I am a member of. It is the Panther Armature Radio Club or PARC. It was a good meeting we were talking about a camping trip some time in October, so that should be fun, a bunch of hams out in the woods being[…]

Sunday’s Ham radio operator’s Bike ride

Categories: Biking, Ham Radio
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Published on: September 21, 2005

I tried to get some people interested in the bike ride tonight after the 88 traffic net tonight. But no one seemed to be interested. I am going to keep trying to get people interested. But here is some information about the ride for the hams that don’t get on the 88 traffic net. I[…]

Hurricane RITA is now a Cat 5

Categories: News
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Published on: September 21, 2005

I just checked over at the NHC‘s web site, and according to them Hurricane Rita is now a cat 5 Hurricane with wind speeds of up to 161 KNOTS and the pressure at 700 MB. I wonder what will happen to the coast of Texas now? We saw the damage that a cat 4 (Katrina)[…]

More Biking Pictures

Categories: Biking
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Published on: September 20, 2005

A friend of mine has been asking me if the pictures I took on our bike ride about a week ago were up on the web. Well I have finally gotten around to uploading them. So you can see them here in the 2005 Album of Biking pictures. So John the pictures of you are[…]

Biking

Categories: Biking, Ham Radio
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Published on: September 20, 2005

I am thinking about seeing if I can get a bike ride going of the hams in the Pittsburgh area, I first mentioned it on the traffic net tonight. I came up with the idea when some one else on the traffic net said that he went for a nice bike ride today. I found[…]

Stupid DVR

Categories: Technology
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Published on: September 20, 2005

The DVR I got from comcast is being a major pain. Not only do I have to deal with the 5:20am and 5:40pm freezing bug. I found that, that bug is very common on all comcast DVR’s. But now it is freezing every 30 minutes today. They have replaced it once already. If it was[…]

Hurricane Rita

Categories: News
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Published on: September 19, 2005

The NHC is now tracking Hurrican Rita in the Atlantic plus a sceond one (there are 3 in the Pacific) There is also another Tropical System that might form into something in the next 36 hours. We are flying though the names this year, I wonder if we are going to go to Tropical Storm[…]

The first scanner net podcast is up

Categories: Ham Radio, Technology
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Published on: September 18, 2005

We finished up the scanner net at 10:05 EDT tonight. I have then cut some of the empty space from in front of the net and behind the net off, but other than that I left it pretty much the way it came across the air. You can find the podcast at http://scanner.hamradiobb.com I have[…]

Google blog search

Categories: Technology
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Published on: September 18, 2005

I was just looking though my logs and found a hit that came from blogsearch.google.com looks like google now has a search that returns only blogs, maybe they can use this to remove blogs from their main search site. That would be a good idea, when I go to google I am not looking for[…]

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