Current predictions on the TV
Fox news is having it at 221 Bush and 133 Kerry, I will go so far to add another 55 to Kerry for California, there is now why on earth Bush could win California, but we only need 49 more Electoral votes now.
Let me remind my readers who wish to comment
No swearing, keep comments to G or I will delete your post, I don’t care if I agree with you or not.
Posts are now on moderation
Since I am getting some hate posts, I have put all posts on moderation for now. Hate posts from the dumbacrates will not be approved and will be deleted.
The Wiki over at bBlog
The guys over at bBlogs site have put up a new wiki since the old one was not working out for them. It is a nice one, and I think maybe it might be a nice to add such a thing to my site. I will just have to look into it to see if[…]
Along with Google now Yahoo and MSN
Well I looked at the logs today, and found that Yahoo now has started it massive “slurp” of my site. They have been getting page after page. They have 2 bots looking around my site. Also MSN is sending its bots over, I did a check on MSN search engine and for my name Michael[…]
Either google is going to change how things are done
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[…]
Google and blogs
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[…]
Looks like I am still getting slashdot Visitors
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[…]
The video is back up
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[…]
Boom that hurt
Ok here is the final total, I have moved the video file for now but here is the total before the move of the file: 51839.16 Megabytes (Yes that is about 50Gb, I bet my hosting company loves me now) So for the next 2 days I will not have that video up to save[…]
The Video that was posted on slashdot
Ok if you clicked on the link at slashdot to view the video please Click here, to see the post. I had turned off the Hotlink Protection for the slashdot stuff, but now I have turned it back on again. I don’t think it should affect people much now, since it is almost off the[…]
WOW, ok that is alot of bandwidth used
Ok I got into the office and checked the bandwidth used, and it now reads 14911.41 Megabytes (~14Gb) WOW!!! that is more then I ever though I could server from my web site. Well lets see if I get slasdoted off the net today? Well I am investigating if I can buy a bit more[…]
Lets see how much traffic /. can bring here
I just got something submitted to /. that links to a file here from /. So far this morning the bandwidth usage is up at 336 Mb used and the story was posted at 7:30am and here we are about 2 hours and 15 minutes later and the site is up, I don’t think /.[…]
SWEET!!!!
I just did a couple of searches on google today, one was to see how many pages are linked to my site, it returned 68. Before it was only returning 33. And I did a search for just my name Michael P. O’Connor and found that it is the first real hit. So if some[…]
This is funny
Ok I went into the server logs and looked at where people were coming to my site from. Some were coming in from google, but I would never though my site would show up on some of the searches that are being reported. I followed back to these searches and 2 of them were valid[…]
Issues Etc
Recent Posts
- Hobbies by Michael O'Connor
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[…]
- Just got a “new” telesc… by Michael O'Connor
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[…]
- For the new kb3hcg.radio website I … by Michael O'Connor
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[…]
- Just found out about the .radio TLD by Michael O'Connor
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[…]
- Finally Got the Ham setup going by Michael O'Connor
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[…]
- Trying to get the FT-710 working at… by Michael O'Connor
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[…]
- Got 2 new radios recently by Michael O'Connor
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[…]
- Got lucky at home depot the other d… by Michael O'Connor
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[…]
- Got my ham upgread and other stuff. by Michael O'Connor
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[…]
- Listening to 40m tonight by Michael O'Connor
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[…]
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