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CMU’s Robotics Institute

Categories: Technology
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: October 16, 2004

Well as posted the other day, where I and 2 of my coworkers dropped over to the Robotics institute to see what they were showing off. I have now converted the video taken there to a quick time movie. To view the video Please click on read more below

The hard drive in the gateway laptop

Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: October 15, 2004

W00t it is no about 1/2 way done on the bad block scan (3028872/6801228) I am so happy it just might finish before the end of the month!!! It has been going since Sep 29!! That is one borked hard drive. The drive is toast but I am going to let this finish for the[…]

Banned IP address due to spammers

Categories: Web Site
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Published on: October 13, 2004

Since I am haveing trouble with spammers, spamming my blog, I have not 1) all posts with URL’s in them will have to be appoved by me first before they can appear on this site (I will aprove almost all non-spam ones) comments with out URL’s will be posted with out me having to appove[…]

Ham and Short Wave radio BB added

Categories: Ham Radio, Web Site
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: October 13, 2004

I have decided to add a BB for ham radio and short wave radios, lets see if this one goes well. I will be letting some of my ham friends know about it. If you are a ham or intersted in ham radio or short wave radio listening then check it out at Ham and[…]

CMU had a robotfest today

Categories: Technology, Work
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Published on: October 12, 2004

Went with some coworkers for a little bit. we got some video, will be posting it eather tonight or tomorrow, Keep an eye here for said video, it was ok. Now I would love to get to work on programming a robot. When I was at Pitt I did resurch into Power Aware Real Time[…]

Die spammers

Categories: Web Site
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: October 12, 2004

Come on I wake up this morrning to find I got 39 spam posts to my blog. Ok, spammers you have done it, now all posts with links will be moderated, if I have to I will go to a full moderation system. Spam is hated and unwellcome here, and will not be allowed. So[…]

I got blog spamed bombed

Categories: Blog Stuff, Web Site
Comments: 3 Comments
Published on: October 11, 2004

Oh man, I hate, let me repeat that *HATE* spamers, this morning I found at 9:25am I got 6 spam posts to my blog. Well I deleted said posts. Besides this blog has such low reader ship even if I did not delete them it was wasted effort, maybe I am wrong I would love[…]

new addtion to the blog

Categories: Blog Stuff, Web Site
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Published on: October 10, 2004

I now have figured out how to get a “read more” link for my longer posts, so for the long posts I will cut them off at some point and have a read more link so that if people are interested they can read the whole thing and for the people that are just skimming[…]

Return of the boxes.

Categories: News
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Published on: October 10, 2004

Well for the last 2 weeks, after church, I have gotten a friend of mine, from church, to help me move boxes from my apartment to a room in the church for temporary storage till I move. Today we got another load of boxes, a small one but still. He also dropped of a bunch[…]

SUBTROPICAL STORM NICOLE

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Published on: October 10, 2004

Hi have a friend Nicole that is going to be very excited about this, she was hoping beyond hope to have a storm named after her this year. well today her wish came true. She really wanted a hurricane, but she will have to take a subtropical storm. But wow I did not think we[…]

I think I will be very happy when this election is over

Categories: Blog Stuff, News, Politics, Web Site
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Published on: October 9, 2004

And I can go back to not worrying to much about it, and this blog will go to something not politicl almost every post or every other post.

Posted this on slashdot let see if they accept it

Categories: Play, Politics
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Published on: October 8, 2004

I was in a chat with 2 of my friends and we started to talk about what would happen if Bill Gates ran for the Presidency. Would you vote for him? What do you think he would do in office? What party do you think he would be. How about Steve Jobs, Linus?

Just for fun

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Published on: October 8, 2004

Just for the fun of it, I got two of my friends into a debate over what they think if Bill Gates ran for Presidency, now for my readers what do you think? the debate between my friends was just so funny.

Humm, dilemma time!

Categories: News, Politics
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Published on: October 8, 2004

Well I been looking into things and came across this site of the constitution party And here is what is getting my attention Sanctity of Life Religious Freedom I am not so sure on this one Taxes I HATE taxes as much as the next person, but we can not just cut them, there are[…]

mySQL how I hate it

Categories: Technology, Work
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Published on: October 7, 2004

I am working on debugging the program I am working of for work. Well now, when I step over a call to a function that just calls into the Mysql lib, it get a unhandled exception, so deep in that VC++ (I have to use this compile for work) will not give me the stack[…]

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