I been thinking a bit about social media, this includes Blogs, MicroBlogs (twitter) and social networks (facebook). They can be great tools, but also great ways to embarrass your self fast. I have a blog and an account with both facebook and twitter. I like my blog and facebook, I do use them differently. I[…]
I thought instead of just posting these to my Facebook page, I would post them here for the world to see I got a new synthesizer on Friday, I played with it all weekend and this is the stuff I came up with over the weekend. Mind you I was messing around and very rusty[…]
Well tonight I got to really put my new phone though some usage. Went to meet some people (a friend of mines friends) in DC well when I finally get a parking space I set it GPS location in a program on the android phone called parkdoid. Then grabbing the exact address off of the[…]
I am always behind on my Podcasts. I have a 2.8 day queue left (if I was to listen straight) the PodCasts I listen to are Issues Etc (www.issuesetc.org) Fighting for the Faith (http://www.fightingforthefaith.com/) Irish and Celtic Music ( http://celticmusicpodcast.com/) Pub Song Podcast (http://pubsong.com/) Armature Radio Newsline (http://n5pre.podomatic.com/) Bill O’Reilly Rush Limbaugh and I am[…]
I just got a new cell phone(on Friday), it is an android cell phone (a Motorola cliq). I have played with it a bit (not as much today as I feel a bit sick). The reason I picked a android is because it is java basid and as I do java programming now it is[…]
Today I was a bit busy. After church I did not get home till late since they were doing construction on 66 (I have to go up to Alexandria for church as there are, to my knowledge any good confessional/liturgical churches in SoMD) So I decided on the way home to stop for some food[…]
Finally I am off of comcast. When I called in to cancel the comcast account talk about hostal, the person tried to tell me I did not know anything about computers and my setup was all wrong and I was causing my own problem. At that point I got angry and told him 1) I[…]
6 more days and my Verizon DSL will be up and I will be able to cancel comcast. I hope they get it up faster then by the 20th, I got the modem today, I just have to hold till they turn things on.
As I type this post I am on hold with verizon, I am going to dump comcast and get DSL. Why am I dumping comcast, well I am tired of horrible connectivity to no connectivity. it is every day from 6pm to 8pm. I finally had it today when I called in for the second[…]
For the last 2 weeks I have had the most unstable internet connection, if it was not for the fact that comcrap had a monopoly here I would drop them so fast, but there is on other option, no fios, no other real high speed options, if fios ever comes to Indian Head MD I[…]
I am so pissed at comcast right now. I get told we will have a tech out there tomorrow, be home from 1 to 5pm. So I have to take time off work, well I am there from 1 to 5 no one comes, I call in and get “oh you did not have to[…]
Well I am going though all my Music and Podcasts on my Itunes and cleaning it up. There are some podcasts I just don’t listen to anymore, and I don’t think I will be again, so I have deleted them from my computer (freed up over 50 Gigs of room).
Well I got a new computer this week, on Wednessday, it crashed 5 times on the first day before I even installed anything. It is running slower then a computer 5 years older then it. It is a crap shoot if the sound will work. I have been told by other people that work with[…]
I have been running Fedora 2 for the longest time on my Linux box well today I just put Fedora 7 on it. I am still in the middle of the install, aka I am downloading the updated patches for the system.
Well I been messing around with this new Linux box I build this weekend and I think it seems to be working out well. I still need to update the OS from FC2 to FC7 I am working with the old hard drives so I have all my old data, the hard drives were not[…]
I saw an video recently on youtube where someone was complaining that hobbies have been ruined in recent years, he made his argument. I personally reject his argument. His argument is that influincers on either on Youtube or tiktoc have made it where people feel they have to spend a lot of money to get[…]
A while back my dad was going to get rid of his old telescope as the cover on it would not come off. I had help from a friend to get it off, but it does come off now. All that was missing at that point was an eye piece for it, and I found[…]
I was talking to a ham friend of mine about the new domain I have and said I am thinking of doing a website on the domain along with the email. And he said since it will be a ham radio website, I have to do it in 90’s style since a lot of personal[…]
Today I found out about the .radio TLD. I also found out that while it normally 200+EUR ham radio operators are given a discounted price of 25EUR (about 30USD) a year, and I thought it would be nice to have my call sign as a domain. so I registered kb3hcg.radio right now I have it[…]
I fiannly got the attena tuner today, and have set it up. Now here are some pics of my setup. First here is my setup where I sit to operate the radio. You can see the ham computer I have setup, the ham radio and the tuner, and my late mothers old shortwave radio (a[…]
While my FT-891 works great with my ATAS-120A Antenna on my car. But I been unable to get a good attena working for my FT-710, I been tring to use 2 ham sticks setup in a dipol setup, but I can not get the SWR under 5:1, so I kind of given up, so I[…]
Back on Nov 24th I went out to the DE Ham Radio Outlet, to get a Yaesu FT-710 feild. While I was out there I also picked up a FT-891 for my car, since I recently got my general upgread for my ham license. I have not had a chance to play with the FT-710[…]
The other day I went down to a local home depot to pick up some stuff to build a small attena mast for my balcony. One of the items I needed was a block of wood for the base. When I went to the wood section the guy there was helping another customer cut some[…]
Back on Oct 11, I took the test to upgread my ham licnense from Tech to general, yesterday I got the email from the FCC that my license in the database has been updated. Also last week I decided to join the ARRL. Over the years I have heard of 3 things that the ARRL[…]
Tonight I setup my 40m attena to tune around the 20m band of the ammature radio band, while I did not key up (still have yet to make any contacts on my new privileges that passing my general exam granted me) I did enjoy tuning around. It took me some time to get my attenas[…]
