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The FCC database

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: September 15, 2005

Ok now thing are just going odd here, I first got my address updated. Now I got my last name corrected in the database (it was misspelled) but they reverted my address to the old one. This is almost to the point where it is funny. I have applied for a password for my FRN[…]

A note about the “potty note” as the liberal blogs has dub it

Categories: Politics
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Published on: September 15, 2005

Yesterday the liberal blogs were all over the small note that Bush penned to his secretary of state. To that I say big deal, the only thing that this picture shows me is that there was an over zealous phototagrapher, a media group that wants to try to discredit Bush at any cost, and a[…]

Tropical Storm Jova

Categories: News
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Published on: September 14, 2005

According to the National Hurricane Center at NOAA, tropical storm JOVA has just formed out of Tropical Depression Ten-E out in the Eastern Pacific, right now they are forecasting that it might hit the Hawaiian Islands. At the time of this writing there is also Tropical Depression eleven-E just a little bit east of JOVA.[…]

News on the Short wave radio

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Published on: September 14, 2005

I was listening to Radio Thailand. They were doing the weather, and it looks like they are getting pounded by a tropical depression. They then talked about Hurricane Ophelia; they did not cover it much. But what I found interesting was the tropical depression that is around Thailand.

Yet another update on the ill Red Eyed Tetra

Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: September 14, 2005

The Red Eyed Tetra that I posted about yesterday seams to be doing ok. He is now swimming about his 10 gallon hospital right now. He seams to be a bit frightened but wouldn’t you be if a “monster” 50x (or more) your size came by grabbed you out of your home, but other then[…]

Thanks to the fine people at W5YI VEC group, my last name is finally correct in the FCC database

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: September 14, 2005

I finally got my last name fixed in the FCC database. It now reads the correct spelling of the last name. It has not hit QRZ’s web site as of today, but I was informed that by the W5YI-VEC Dept that it is in the FCC database, and they said I can take a look[…]

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
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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

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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
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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[…]

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