More pain then normal. First I ordered TurboTax back in Nov, well I never got the software, so I call back in Jan. Still I did not get the software. So I call back again today. This time I ask since there has been a major problem with the shipping of the software, if they[…]
One of our member of wplug is working on a new aggregate of the blogs of members of wplug you can see the test page at http://wm-eddie.info/planet/. He has said it will be moved to planet.wplug.org some time in the future. It could be fun to see what “wplug” is thinking in any given day.[…]
I am starting to get really annoyed at the napster commercial, first they are annoying to beginning with, and I am going to go as far to they are engaging in false advertising. Yes it will cost 10K to full fill up the size iPod they are talking about. Also they may cost only $15[…]
I must be boring, I just finished watching NOVA on WQED (Pittsburgh’s PBS) on string theory and I find it very interesting. It is kind of interesting to see the current thoughts on how the universe physically works. And I am watching it while I do some work I brought home that I want to[…]
You can see the few pictures I took at the CPLUG conference on saterday here, in the CPLUG picture page
On Saturday I went out with some friends of mine from WPLUG (Western PA Linux User Group) to CPLUG’s (Central PA Linux User Group) Security Conference. It was pretty good; I found one of the more interesting talks was from a PA trooper on the PA cyber crime laws. They seemed to be well written,[…]
Well today was “fun” my computer (laptop) was hacked into by some one, I assume it was just some stupid kiddy scripter. Why do I say it was probably just a stupid kiddy scripter, was because the stuff that was put on. A ftp server was put on, so it makes me think it was[…]
Ok in my inbox today got two of those Nigeria scams today, normaly I just delete them but for some reason I was so board I read them for the humor factor. The first was for a lotory I never entered WOW I won 500,000GBP wow 😉 I can not belive that there are people[…]
I have given people the ability to add comments to the Photo section of my web site. I will see how this goes, if I see that there to many spam or hate posts I will disable them, but for now I am going to see how it works out.
I was looking though the logs for the web site to see where people have been coming from and I see the following hit, http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mikeoconnor.net%2F. So it looks like some one was searching for my blog on a search engine, out of curiosity I looked at their about page, and find out they are a[…]
I don’t know about others, but I would be afraid of a medicine developed by Microsoft, I don’t want any parts of my body to crash like their OS crashes. I can just imagine it now, some one is driving down the road after getting some medication helped devolved by MS and then their brain[…]
I could not resist it. Today I picked up a Betta, and a 2 gallon tank for it. He is a beautiful fish. You can see pictures of him here. I am sure that once he start to settle into his new home. I know that there is a myth out there that Bettas can[…]
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[…]
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”[…]
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[…]
To work on getting better in shape, along with getting back on the bike, I went and rejoined the gym I use to be a member of. Went down for the first welcome session that they give “new members” and instead of driving down, I used it as an excuse to ride my bike and[…]
I had a great time this last 4th of July. First I went out and tried to activate a pota, while I failed at it because I made only 4 contacts, and when it got to 100 degrees it was to hot for me to continue, and I had been at it for 2 hours[…]
Well today sony annouced that starting Jan of 2028 that they will end physical media for the playstation. My response is, well I don’t need to buy new games after Jan 2028. And given the rumors about the potental price tag of the PS6, it will save me a lot of money, as I will[…]
I have for over a decade missed riding my bike, this summer is the summer I am going to get back on the bike. I walked my bike down to the corner bike shop to get it tuned up, I really needs it as the last time I used it was back in 2014. I[…]
I been wanting to get a amature radio license plate for my car for a while now. Today after my annual eye exam I went down to the DMV and apply to get them, and have been told in about 4 to 5 weeks I should get them in the mail. It will be nice[…]
Last weekend I was feeling board so I decided to go along with my ham radio license, I would also buy a GMRS license. I got the equipment and set it up, I have one in the car, and one at my radio table here at home. I have a Btech in the car, I[…]
I got my General license in October, and a FT-710 back in December. I have been struggling on getting the setting right on the radio to so I could get a contact on HF. I have it hooked up to a LDG Z-100A tuner, and the Antanna is a Diamond HFV-5 pentaband antanna. But the[…]
As noted before when I first got my 3D printer I thought it would be used for some fun things but not as much use as I am using it for, it seems about 3 to 4 times a week I find another thing I can print with it to make things nicer in my[…]
Recently amazon decided to force an update on the Echo Auto, to the stupid Alexa+ I did not want it, months ago when they first tried it you could exit it. But last month they decided that they were going to force it and not let you exit or disable it. I refuse to use[…]
WEll today I found how bad the internet has made things. First I was tring to buy something at microcenter, tried to use samsung wallet. Well again it wanted me to open unlock the phone so it chould show me some random ad. I did that quickly and quickly closed the phone and tried again,[…]
