The BCC is running an artical about how camra phones are over taking more traditional types of camras as the camra of choice. To this I have to ask “WHY?” They have very low resolution, and lower amounts of memory so they can not store as many images, and they are very unlikely to have an optical zoom on them.
I finally got my new Tin Whistle in today. you can see a picture of it to the left. I put the old Tin Whistle next to it.
The new one is on the right side of the picture and the old one is on the left side of the picture.
The new Whistle is going to take some getting some use to, but it does sound smother then the older Whistle. I am going to hang my old Whistle on my wall for decoration.
The new Whistle is a Tony Dixon D Whistle. I am still working on getting good at the Tin Whistle, but I am getting better (well I think I am getting better)
There is still a group of people I would like to play with they meet up at The Irish Center of Pittsburgh the group is called Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann(I had to remove the accent marks to allow it to be printable) of Pittsburgh, and they do something called The Session, but first I have to learn some of the music that they play. Right now I am working off of sheet music, aka reading music as I play it.
I was determined to see if I could get my eMac to a semi-stable point tonight. It would freeze on everything, I tried to copy my files off of it, for safe keeping, but it would freeze on that. It would freeze on updates, it would freeze on anything that involved anything on it. Well I started at around 11pm last night working on it. I started with the hard drive, did a fsck on it, found a few “Overlapped extent allocation”‘s files, removed those. No Joy there. So I did some more research on eMac and freezings, well I found that allot of people are having the same problem. It is that Apple used some bad video boards on the eMac, so I can either buy a new back, or pay about $400USD to get it fixed. Unacceptable for me. But I also found that if you delete all the ATI extensions form the system, you could by pass the problem, and not get it, knock on wood. So I did that (well I moved them form the extensions folder to a holding folder, never delete a file that you might need) I have found 2 things now. The system seams to be stable, I have ran a few tests that had a 95% of causing the system to crash. Well the system did not crash, but I did find that all the “cool” effects that Apple put in OS X were not there anymore. Well at this point I use the mac for 2 things only, my photos and my music, and for those I don’t need any fancy graphical effects, so I can live with out them. If this holds up I should be good for a bit till I move my data off of the Mac.
See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=301339&tstart=0 for what I finally found and am working form.
The problems with my eMac are getting to the point where it is not usable at all. I am going to backup all my data, and try to reinstall the OS and hope that it works. But when I do rebuild the system I will not put on the updates from Apple, I want the system to work, and the updates might prevent it from working again. Wish me luck. I have it coping my /users/mpop directory to an external firewire hard drive.
My new Tin Whistle should come in on Monday, I can not want to try it out. I am thinking I might use my old tin whistle as decoration on one of my walls.
Well I am well over 400 miles now for the year, And from Last Saterday, I did over 100 miles. On Saterday I did 26 miles on Monday I did 54 miles and Tusday, Wednessday and Thursday combined I did 26 miles. My legs are begging for me to give them a day off, but that will not come untill Saterday, or maybe I will go out for a ride on Saterday, and just burn the legs till Sunday. Today was one of the longer weekday rides after a after work get together, I biked from work (Union Switch and Signal) up to the Pittsburgh Irish Center.
Today I got an email from some one that wants to put an ad on my web site. I will say I am happy that they are not just spamming my site, so I will give them a plus there. But I am thinking I wish to decline it, since my site is one of the few sites still out there that does not have ads on it that I am paid to put up. So I wish to ask the regular readers what they think. I am thinking I will send a reply back to them tomorrow evening, what ever I do, I do want to encourage groups to ask for ad space on sites, and not just do comment spam.
One thing I don’t like is many sites have so many ads on them that one can not see the content that you are going for, and I don’t want to let even the first step in that direction happen.
Well back on the 3rd I ordered a new Irish Tin Whistle, the company I ordered it from, has not sent it yet. Good thing though is that they have not charged my card for either. But I have tried to contact them. I sent them 3 emails last week, and one today, I tried to call during their business hours (11am to 3pm central time) I started to call at 1pm, and when the line was busy I would tell my cell phone to continue to call until the line became free, but it was busy till 4pm (local) at witch point I just got the answering machine. That happened for the last 2 days. Well after all that, I figure that they probably do not want my business, so I going to cancel the order with them, and order a new Tin Whistle from another place, if the first can not even let me know what is up with my order within a week from the first email, I guess that they just don’t want my business. I really want a better Whistle then the one I have now, but I don’t want to want over a month to get it from the point I ordered it, it is not like I ordered a handmade one.
I might have spoken to soon on the AirSet solution to my calendar problem. The problem being I have 2 different calendars I would like to keep in sync. I have been testing AirSet, and found that after a few sync’s it started to get confused and started to make my single events repeating every day. I am glad I did not use it on live data, that would have been really bad for me. So I guess it is on to find a new solution to the problem, and maybe I will find one that will work.
Well today I got some biking in, I got 54.79 miles in. Looks like I will hit the 400 mile mark tomorrow with my bike ride to work. I started out with a bike ride with a friend of mine, Bill, we drove down to McKeesport, and biked south for about 21 miles, then biked back to Bills care. That gave us 41.62 miles, when I got back I rested for about 30 minutes then went back out and did another 13.17 miles. So between Saterday and today I did 79.80 miles. Now it is time to rest and see if I can recover before tomorrow, I am out of shape if only 54 miles tires me out.
I site down to do a simple 3 minute task on my mac, and here it is 30 minutes in and still can not get it done because of all the rebooting I have to do. Right now I am just keeping the mac around for the iPods, but I am finding (I thought I would never say this) that even windows is more stable then OS X, I am on my 35th reboot of the mac tonight, coom on how hard is it to do a ftp session, and a web browser at the same time, heck even winblows can do it. I am this close to selling the eMac and putting all my photos on the Linux box, if I can find a good program for them, and putting the iPod on the windows box, or looking to see if I can do the iPod on the Linux box.
I thouhgt I would never see a system that was more unstable then windows, but I have found it, I don’t know what happend to Apple OS X was good but from an update they did a few months ago on OS X 10.3 it just dose not work, and if I try to get the latest update on the mac, it freezes just as the download starts, maybe I should blasted the OS, and put the original OS X 10.3 on and not update to the latest patch.
I did get a nice bike ride in today, I was hoping for 30 miles but I only got 25.01 miles, but it is still nice to get those 25 miles in. I went with a friend of mine. He and I are talking about maybe going for another bike ride on Monday.
Well this is the 1000th post to this blog, well according to the database. This blog started back on July 2 of 2004 It has been almost 2 years and I have put in 1000 posts (that includes this post)
I wonder what the next 1000 posts to this blog will contain, and where the years will lead me.
The biggest post/annoucement I have ever put on this blog is here, this is where I talked about my new job at Union Switch and Signal and that post is not all that old it is from back in March of this year.
Well the weather looks like it is going to be OK, so I am going to try to get a bike ride in. I hope to get 20 to 30 miles in tomorrow, I will post tomorrow how many miles I actually get in.
Today on my bike ride home, coming up on Neville St. I was close to the top, so I went to up shift since I wanted to be able to get some speed up when I got to the top of the hill. So as I shift, I feel all resistance on the chain gone, I look down and the chain is broken and wrapped around the front gears. This is an irritant to me, the chain is about only a month to 2 months old, and has only about 175 to 250 miles on it. I am just wondering why on earth the chain would brake with so little miles on it. I will be getting 2 new chains soon, one to replace the broken one, and a spare in case such a thing happens to me again.
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