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Hay it is a bot party on my web site

Categories: Web Site
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: June 14, 2005

I am seeing a lot of traffic from the search engine bots the last few days, the usual suspects include googlebot msnbot, and a new one is gigabot, and from what I can find from a google search on gigabot, is that it is a new search engine that wants to have more of an[…]

I hate windows

Categories: Technology, Work
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Published on: June 13, 2005

I really hate windows, today while tiring to get work done, I had to contend with 4 blue screen of death from XP, and then when that stopped, I find that Visual C++ crashes every time I try to compile something. I tried to compile other things and it continues to crash, I even tried[…]

TV quality

Categories: Technology
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: June 11, 2005

I have had a lot of my friends say that I need to get a new TV since the quality of the picture on my TV was not all that great, there was always some snow on the picture no mater what the source of the signal was. And today I picked up a converter[…]

Another update on my baby fish

Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: June 10, 2005

As I said before, I found 6 fish fries in my tank back on May 26, I removed them to their own tank. Later I talked about the 5 zebra danios I had and I mentioned how I believed I must have lost one of the babies. Well this morning I found that I was[…]

Had to deal with a jerk today while biking

Categories: Biking
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Published on: June 10, 2005

Today I took a quick 30 minute bike ride today after work (I did not have much time today for fun and games since I had other responsibilities so I just did a quick run around Oakland) Well as I was going down one of the roads, I had some one yell at me, to[…]

A new betta

Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: June 9, 2005

Today I went to the pet store to pick up some more baby fish food for my baby zebra danios. While I was there I saw this beautiful betta. It has a white body with a red head and fins; I know that the colors of it will change over time as it becomes more[…]

Finally got a bike ride in.

Categories: Biking
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Published on: June 7, 2005

I have not had a chance to get a bike ride in since Last Monday, due to a variety of reasons. But I got a 2 hour bike ride in. It was great to finally get back on the bike. Unfortunately I could not do more then that since I did not get much sleep[…]

My Baby fish

Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: June 6, 2005

My baby fish have grown tremendously. I think I can ID them now. They are starting too look like zebra danios. I had the thought that they might be about 3 days ago, but was not sure, but they now not only developing the body of one, but the color pattern of them, and fin[…]

Sorry about the lack of updates last week

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Published on: June 6, 2005

Sorry about not updating the blog last week, I was busy with other things that take higher priorities. So I had more important things to do.

Paperless office, ya right

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Published on: June 1, 2005

I remember hearing a lot about the “paperless office” back in the 90’s, and today I don’t here much about it anymore. I think people have realized that computers have not cut down the number of pages used, but rather increased the number of pages consumed. I know for myself when I do my programming[…]

Happy Memorial Day

Categories: Biking
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: May 30, 2005

I want to wish all here a happy Memorial Day. I bike from Shadyside to Bridgeville; it was a great ride and took me 2 hours. It was a great ride; I did have to get off my bike in Dormant because I ran into a Memorial Day parade. There was a bit of rain,[…]

Pictures of the Betta’s new colors

Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: May 29, 2005

I took a few pictures of my Betta sporting his new color so take a look, his fins are looking very good, and healthy.

My Betta (a a few other things)

Categories: Aquarium
Comments: 3 Comments
Published on: May 29, 2005

My betta colors seam to change again since I put him in the new 10 gallon tank, his fins have started to turn from red to a bright blue. Also all the plants I have put in the tank with him are doing fine, One of the Plants, in my other 20 gallon tank, leafs[…]

Killed spam IPs

Categories: Web Site
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: May 29, 2005

I have noticed that a very large number of spam to my blog has come from IP address starting with 80. So I put a IP ban in affect on my site to block all web traffic 80.x.x.x and today when I looked at the logs today, I did see a lot of access to[…]

Hurricanes

Categories: News
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Published on: May 28, 2005

I heard on the news that this year we might have a have a heaver hurricane season in the US. It even hit us up here in Pittsburgh, where we got the rain from 2 of the storms and one of them caused flooding downtown. I hope that Pittsburgh does not get hit with flooding[…]

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