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Cameras and lighting.

Categories: Technology
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Published on: January 4, 2005

Tonight I tried to take some pictures of my aquarium but I could not get any good lighting for it. I have the normal light for the tank, then I put around it 2 of my lamps and that still was not enough light, the camera was saying it needed 1/8 of a second for[…]

I wish there was a easy way to since 2 iTunes collection

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Published on: January 4, 2005

I would like to have access to my iTunes music Library at work. I make it a point to buy my music on my home computer, but then I have to go though all the problem of uploading and manually syncing the 2 libraries. I understand why Apple has disabled the internet sharing, because there[…]

The Legend of Zelda

Categories: Games
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Published on: January 4, 2005

Well a while back I got a game cube. And for Christmas I got a copy of “The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker” I am still stuck on the first level (ok I have not played that much either, I have maybe done about 1.5 hours of play on it) and I am finding[…]

This weeks scanner net (The first for the year)

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: January 1, 2005

Well this week we had the first scanner net of the 2006 year. Well none of the regulate net control operators showed up. I also have a copy of the net control prolog. So I ended up taking up the net. I was nervous as all get out, so I kept messing up on giving[…]

Happy New Year

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Published on: January 1, 2005

Happy New Year all!!!!

We didn’t start the fire

Categories: Hay it is funny, News, Politics
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Published on: January 1, 2005

I saw a post over at unspace and in the comment I posted about the song “We didn’t start the fire” That song covers events from 1940 to 1989. (Here is a link to the lyrics of the song, that has links to the info behind the song) But I am wondering what would be[…]

Video Games

Categories: Games, Technology
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Published on: December 31, 2004

I have notices most video games, well at lest the games I have looked at, are now quest based games. Have the old, 2d scrolling games gone out of fashion? I am not saying the new games are bad, but some times I do miss the older type games. I do have some of the[…]

Got the Videos up.

Categories: Church
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Published on: December 29, 2004

I took videos of the 3 Christmas services this year at my church (First Trinity Lutheran church) I have finished encoding them into QuickTime movies and uploading them to my site you can now see them in my video section of my web site.

My fish

Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: December 22, 2004

Well it been a few days since I put my new fish in their new home. Well all 10 of them are doing well. I keep testing the water just to make sure everything is alright for them in there. I will probably take some pictures of my tank setup and the fish next week[…]

Pictures of the move in.

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Published on: December 22, 2004

I did not take many but I did take some pictures of the day I moved in. You can see the mess that this place was in before I started to put things where they belonged. I also got a good picture of one of the stain glass windows of my church that night. These[…]

The Cable internet.

Categories: News, Technology
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Published on: December 22, 2004

Well things are all setup up here. I got the cable modem installed and the wires ran where I want to lay so that they are out of the way. The cable install guy just left them in the middle of the main room of the apartment. I got 2 50″ cables, it turns out[…]

DSL final entry

Categories: Technology
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Published on: December 21, 2004

Well verizon still has not gotten my DSL connect it been 23 days now, well over the 2 weeks promised. So I decided to call Comcast (the local cable company) and see how much it would be to get cable internet. They said that they could have it in tomorrow, and that they have a[…]

Game Night

Categories: Friends
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Published on: December 19, 2004

Last night I had some friends over for food, games and a movie. I enjoyed it, and my friends said that they enjoyed it. Well played a card game called Fluxx if you know that game you know how much fun we had, if you don’t know that game take a look over at google[…]

The fish tank.

Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: December 19, 2004

I got the fish and have put all 10 Red Eyed Tetras. I put them in and been keeping an eye on the Water Chemistry of the water. It seems to be staying stable. The Tetras also look like they are doing fine, They are still exploring their new home. I got 10 of them[…]

Even more on the DSL

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Published on: December 18, 2004

So I called in. I got connected to some one, that then talked to some one in “engineering” (what ever that means) But I was told that I should have my DSL service up and running on Tuesday. Let’s see if Verizon can keep this date. Right now I am doing a evil thing, I[…]

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