It has finally finished the bad block scan of the hard drive on the gateway laptop the finally total of usable space is 2713940 usable blocks out of 29302528 blocks. Next for the shear masochistic fun of it, I am going to install Linux on it, and do a stress test of it, and see[…]
Why do I spend so much time on Slashdot? It is fun at times, but for the most part it’s sophomoric for the most part. I should start trying to wean my self of Slashdot. It is in my best interest. But for some reason I always go back to it, it is like it[…]
It looks like nerd season is open, we need to start running for the hills, see here for more info. Run, run for the hills.
Either google is going to do a update to how they do searches, or they got lost on my site, or the googlebot really loves my site. For fun I have been checking the cache of my site a google every day, and it seems to be updated once a day! I wonder if being[…]
I keep moving boxes out of my place, boxes full of stuff. I did not realize I had so much stuff. Looking at the apartment I still don’t know where I kept it all. I have found some off site storage till moving day. And I have almost filled up that place with boxes and[…]
Today (tonight) I figured I needed to move some of my computers around. I put the windows box next to the Linux box. I did this because I use x2vnc to control the windows box mainly, but having them on 2 different desks meant that I had to turn around when I started to use[…]
I am right now submitting some photographs over at Deviant Art. You can see my page there under my name there mpost4 but there is not much there and all of the stuff there is already here in my Photo section here Along with allot more Pictures I have taken.
Milk does not last long in my place, I just bought a 1/2 gallon yesterday, and well I finished it off today. And I want some milk right now. maybe I should buy by the gallon instead of 1/2 gallons.
There’s a teacher in a small Massachusetts town. She asks her class how many of them are John Kerry fans. Not really knowing what a Kerry fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raise their hands except one boy, Johnny. The teacher asks Johnny why he has decided to[…]
Right now some one decided that they did not want to talk on their cell phone in the office, so now they are in the hall, and talking very loudly, I don’t care about the car trouble that the person that they are talking to is having. I will people would have more courtesy when[…]
I think I am becoming a talk show junkie. There are 2 talk shows I just hate missing. And I enjoy listening to talk shows in general, it is the only radio I can stand now. If I want music I will listen to my music collection, I will never don’t listen to music on[…]
In the age of blogging, their searches have returned some interesting stuff. Just today I was looking at a list of were people come from when they come to my web site. And one was from a search on google for banning Russian IP address. For some reason I was the 8th hit. It saw[…]
Today as I was giving my pastors a lift to the airport, and on the drive out I saw the following 2 bumper stickers on the same car. The first was “Hate is not a family value” the second was a kerry sticker. The funny part is that the majority of the kerry base is[…]
The traffic has died down a bit, but I still see that the traffic is higher then usual. I wonder how many are just stragglers, how many are return visits because they like it, and how many are returning trolls. Over the last few days I been getting trolls in the responses, which I have[…]
I have put the video back up on line, I hope that the traffic from slashdot has died down some. I am not going to put a link right to the file here, just to keep things light. But it should still be on the front page, if not go to the Technology section to[…]
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,[…]
