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So looking forward to the spring

Categories: Biking, Friends
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Published on: February 16, 2005

I am so looking forward to the coming of spring. I do not like the winter; I am looking forward to the warmer weather when I can go biking again. When the temps start to get into the 50’s consistently the time will be ripe for the bike to be pulled out. And more pictures[…]

Sweet

Categories: Technology, Web Site
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Published on: February 12, 2005

I just looked at the web logs for my web site, and found some one came in for a search “Michael O’Connor” normally I am use to my web site being hit #1 for “Michael P. O’Connor” but I never thought that I would get in the top 10 on Google for just “Michael O’Connor”[…]

No Kills Required

Categories: Hay it is funny
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Published on: February 12, 2005

The other day while walking though Wean hall down at CMU, I saw the following poster, some one had put a push pin where the S in the No Skills Required was, so at first I read No Kills Required. I have enclosed a image of the flier (sorry about the low quality of it[…]

Some fun tonight

Categories: Friends
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Published on: February 12, 2005

I had some fun tonight, I had a few friends over, we played a verity of games. First we did some Egyptian Rat Screw, then some Fluxx (2 games with the basic rules, and a game with some of my custom rules, found that 2 of the ones I made I did not like it[…]

The captured US doll in Iraqi

Categories: Hay it is funny
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Published on: February 9, 2005

I found this link on the net, it is the possible next 10 threats from terrorists. All I can think of is how those terrorists have mistreated that poor doll; well they must be bad they can pick on a doll. I am sorry this story is just too funny to let go unposted about[…]

Making some headway with those gmail invites

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Published on: February 8, 2005

I have given 19 of them away, keep the requests coming guys (m.p.oconnor@gmail.com), and I will keep sending the invites out until I am all out of them, as of right now I have 31 invites left. I am wondering just how long it will take me to blow them all. I just want to[…]

Something is up with Google

Categories: Technology, Web Site
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Published on: February 8, 2005

Today I have noticed google really crawling my web site like it has never been before, I seen the googlebot coming from 6 IP address. It is also going to pages that google has not crawling before; the Photo section of my site google has never done before now there are 6 of their bots[…]

49 gmail invites

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Published on: February 7, 2005

To any one reading my blog I just got 50 gmail invites today to give out. I have posted to other boards for any one that wants one to email me at my gmail accoung (m.p.oconnor@gmail.com) If any one wants an account and you see this post just email to the before hand mentioned email[…]

Supper Bowl party

Categories: Games, Play
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Published on: February 6, 2005

I just got back from a supper bowl party. It was fun, I did not watch much of the game about only 20 minutes of play, I spent more time playing cards with my friends that were there. We played 2 different games Fluxx and Pounce. See the link for info on how to play[…]

The Oakland Neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

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Published on: February 5, 2005

It is a nice place to live, don’t really need a car to live here, but it does lack in one thing inside the area, it needs a good pet store. You do need a car if you want to go to a pet store, the closes pet store Oakland (that I know of) is[…]

Backups are a good thing and save the day yet again.

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Published on: February 4, 2005

That was no fun I tried to upgrade the blog software I am using since the new once has image verification to stop spam bots. Well it did not work that well, I am just glad I did make a full backup of my blog before I started I just blasted the database and the[…]

Die spammers

Categories: Web Site
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Published on: February 3, 2005

I am getting tired of spammers. That is why I killed the guest book because I could not have a chance of approving or disapproving of posts. I doubt spammers will read this since they just use bots, they are no better the kiddy scripters. But if one ever does read this, you post will[…]

Windows is worthless

Categories: Technology
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Published on: February 3, 2005

I have to edit some files on my winblows box across network on a Linux box; well winblows will not let me write to the files from Linux, I have set the windows to share and the promotions to allow users to change files over the network. I mounted the winblows share on a Linux[…]

Live food for my fish

Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: February 2, 2005

Today I finally got some live blood worms for my fish, they seemed a bit cautious about them, but they did eat with vigor when they did eat them. I think part of the problem with them being so cautious about eating them was that I have the feeding ring close to the front of[…]

Took some more pictures of my fish

Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: February 1, 2005

I took some more pictures of my fish in my tank tonight. I picked up some new lights just for the task; I got some “work bench” lights. They are just some small lights that have a mettle cone around the bulb to direct the light to the area you want it at. I also[…]

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