Add 3 new feeds to my News site under Politics section

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: News, Politics, Web Site
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Published on: January 4, 2006

I just added 3 new blogs to my news aggregator that I want to watch, the first is Rick Santorum’s official reelection blog the second is Save the GOP blog a conservative blog in PA. The last of the 3 is ProLife blogs (this one is more of an aggregator, I have also submited my site to be listed with them, if I get listed I will have to add another link to them on the right side here, even though I do already have a link to them, under the section of “Sites I am synidcated at”)

Finally filled up 3/4 of my iPod

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Technology
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Published on: January 3, 2006

It been a bit over 2 years since I got my iPod. It is a 40Gb 3g iPod, and I got it for Christmas of 2003 from my parents. It is one of the devices I use every day, and I am glad I have it every day, it is one of the best presents I have gotten in the last decades from my parents (but that is not really fair to them since since it is so great, very few things the can get me now will top it) But I just saw today that I have filled it up to 3/4 of the space on it. For almost a year and a half it was only half full, but then I started to get Podcasts downloaded to it, and now I have used up 10Gb of the space in the last 6 months, I might start having to limit the amount of the podcasts that are being uploaded to the iPod if I start to run out of room.

Atheist and Agnostic Pro-Life League

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Politics
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Published on: January 3, 2006

While going around the web I found this Atheist and Agnostic Pro-Life League. I am not sure they picked the right name for themselves, but it their site, and their self image they are promoting. One thing I think this site will be great for is since not every one is Christian, nor another religion, this site my have some non-religious arguments to use. It is all fine and good that when I talk to a Christian about the life issue, I can reference the Bible, but what about the non-Christians what can I do, they will not accept the Bible as a valid argument. I don’t have time to read all though his site at this time, but I hope that it will contain stuff on arguments for the life cause that does not depend on religious point of view, and can be used for any one, religious or not.
Maybe I should put up a page that is just links to pro-life pages out there, I know of the “Lutherans for Life”, “Jews for Life”, “Prists for Life”, (now) “Atheists for Life”, and a few more.
Well I wish the “Atheist and Agnostic Pro-Life League” the best of luck.

Blogs I started to read in 2005

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff, Friends, Politics, Technology
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Published on: December 31, 2005

Back in 2004 I started my blog. But I did not start reading other’s blogs until this year. I am going to list the blogs that I started to read on a regular basis this year.

  1. Rob over at Unspace
  2. Pastor Stiegemeyer from Concordia Lutheran Church
  3. Power Ball’s blog
  4. WA3FKG’s (Ken’s) blog, a fellow Ham in the Pittsburgh area
  5. SimDan, a Internet friend of mine that John Hogg introduced me to
  6. Russ Lucas’ blog, he is a Attorney, and a friend of mine from church, also a fellow Hockey fan
  7. bloggledygook
  8. Small but Disorganized
  9. The Ice Burgh, a hockey blog
  10. Igloo Dreams, yet another hockey blog
  11. Random Thoughts Of A Confessional Lutheran
  12. Patrick Wagstrom, some one I know from CMU
  13. John Dvorak, good on computer stuff, but on political stuff, so liberal it is not funny
  14. Mark Rauterkus’, a local Libertarian Politician, that is also running for city counsel next year.
  15. Michelle Malkin, a good colonist, I really like her blog, now this is a blog that leans the same way I do politically

Yes there are some blogs in there that are of different political options then mine, but hay if you can not deal with some one with a different political option then you probably should not live in the US, that is one good thing about the US, we are not forced to agree on thing

Tropical Storm Zeta

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: News
Comments: 5 Comments
Published on: December 31, 2005

I just looked at the NHC’s web site, and we have Tropical Storm Zeta I wish I was joking but we have one more storm this year. It is a good thing that tomorrow is the last day of the year. I wonder what would happen if another Storm was to form, we have ran out of Greek letters to name them after. This has been one hack of a year for Tropical storms in the Atlantic. If I did not see it on the NHC’s site, I would not believe that there is a tropical storm Zeta, this year. It looks like it formed today (Dec 30) wow, this has got to be the latest that a Tropical storm has ever formed, the second to last day in the year. I wonder what next year will be like.

The Pens vs Devils Game

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Hockey
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: December 30, 2005

I watched the Pens game tonight. A friend of mine and I went to a “sports bar” at the water front. It was a good game. Really good game. I was impressed that the Pens won so nicely (6-2). The Pens goalie played very well. I did eat too much there.

My iPod’s battery

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Technology
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Published on: December 29, 2005

After 2 years of faithful service, my iPods battery finally is at the end of it’s life. It lasts only about an hour now. So I have bought a new iPod battery, it should be here on the 5th. I also got a belkin backup battery pack. The battery pack uses 4 AA batteries for the backup power.
It does not seem to be able to charge the internal battery, when I turn it on, but turn off the iPod the iPod does not give an indication that it is being charged, but when I turn it on with the iPod on, the battery indicator seems to show the power level of the backup battery. When I first connected it today, the iPod was down to almost no power, but when I connected it and turn on the power, the power indicator on the iPod jump back up to being full. I will have to test it to see what happens when the iPod has full power, but the battery pack has 1/2 power to be sure what it does.
This should last me till the new internal battery gets here, then this might end up in storage until I find myself going on a long trip where I might not have access to power for the iPod. Here I am thinking field day this comming year. The nice thing is that it does not need to be charged up like the iPod. I might look into getting rechargeable batteries for it, but in a pinch I could always pick up a pack of AA’s and be good to go.

Ouch my back

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
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Published on: December 28, 2005

I think I pulled something in my back, for the last week it has been having a dull pain. Then on Monday it started to hurt allot. Today (Tuesday) I was doing some work with my Pastor (we or working on the computers for the church) and when I was moving a monitor, felt like something in my back broke. So I want to ask my few readers, any suggestions on what to do to decrease the pain, it hurts to move my back in any way.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: December 25, 2005

Merry Christmas to all. And to all a good night.

Christmas Meme

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: December 24, 2005

1. Hot Chocolate or apple cider?
Hot, spiced apple cider,I don’t like Chocolate

2. Turkey or Ham?
Ham, don’t like Turkey

3. Do you get a Fake or Real you cut it yourself christmas tree?
Fake. I can not justify blowing that much money on something that is going to be trashed in less then a month since I am a ugly baculare, if I was married with children, then I might go with live

4. Decorations on the outside of your house?
I live in an Apartment, and I am sure my landlord might not be happy.

5. Snowball fights or sleddin?
Sledding! Speed, something that has the chance of killing me is always fun.

6. Do you enjoy Going downtown shopping?
No, to much trouble, and no real stores that I want to go to.

Got the Questions from http://www.unspace.net

A deaf girl is given the gift of hearing

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: News
Comments: 4 Comments
Published on: December 23, 2005

The Telegraph is running an article about how a young girl (12 years old) has been given cochlear implants and can now hear. It brings joy to my heart to read that. More so to me, then maybe it should, you see when I was born I was also deaf, I was deaf for the first 3 years of my life. The cure for me was much simpler, because the problem was different. What happened to me (I don’t remember this stuff, I am restating what my mom told me about me when I was a baby) was when I was born I had massive ear infections, so bad that it was pushing out on the ear drums. We lived in New York at the time. My mom said she would take me to the doctor a lot since I had not started to talk by 2 years, and he said I was just a late bloomer. Well when I was 3 (and when my sister was just born) we moved to Pittsburgh. The first doctor the look at me started to yell at my mother because he thought I was neglected since the problem (to him) was obvious. The solution was ear tubes (also for those of you that have read my blog for some time will see many spelling mistakes, well there is why, and those who know me, know of my speech impediment, that is even after 8 years of speech therapy as a child). The affects of this were many like how I did not graduate from High School till I was 20 years old, I was 2 years behind for many years in school. I do feel sorry for this girl for the problems she will face in life, she probably has a speech impediment, and her peers in school probably will, if they don’t already, make fun of the way she talks. But one thing is for sure, she will value her hearing, maybe even more then I value my hearing, I would reather go blind then loss my hearing.

“The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” the Movie

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
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Published on: December 23, 2005

Last night I went with a friend to see “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.” I will admit that I can not say if it is faithful to the book or not, since I don’t remember the book that well. Maybe after I finish up the 5 books that are on my reading list I might pick up The Conicals of Narnia and read them. I can say from what I know of C. S. Lewis, it was faithful to the message. I did enjoy the movie, and I hope they do make the other books into movies. I would recommend the movie to anyone, unless you are Polly Toynbee, or like her (where she says “Narnia represents everything that is most hateful about religion”, she seems to really hate redemption if you read her article).

All in all the movie is very good. The beginning of the movie shows the 4 kids being shipped off for their protection because of the bombings of London at the time the story takes place. This is moving (sad) and I would think it would be moving to even the hardest of hearts. I don’t want to go to deep into the movie, in case the reader here has not seen the movie and does not know the storie.

The down side of banning the IP address of spammers

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Web Site
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Published on: December 23, 2005

Well today, an inocent party really got hurt today because of the spammers. I normally just ban the IP address of some one that spams my blog. Well It looks like one of the spammers uses AOL. Well (sadly) my mom also uses AOL. Well she got an IP address that a spammer had used before. I told her if she tries again after disconnection and reconnection she sould see my site again, if not I can get the IP address that she keeps getting and unban it. But I am not going to change my polocy about banning the IP address of spammers, on first offence.

I call for a boycott of products from TX, TX law permits “doctors” to murder people

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: News, Politics
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Published on: December 22, 2005

A law in TX has allowed “doctors” to murder another person. (thanks rob at unspace for bring this up) This is just pure murder pure and simple. From what Rob posted (and I don’t have reason to not belive what he wrote) the woman did not want to die, she was pleading not to be murdered!!!! the “doctors” that murdered her belong in jail for LIFE. What ever happend to the oath they take about “do no harm” and to murder someone is harm. The poor woman gave up and asked for just one more day, and the heartless “doctors” could not even give her that. I hope that “hospital” and those “doctors” get sued in to oblivian!!!!!!!
Bush I will admit I blame you for this murder too, it is a law you signed into law there that alowed the “doctors” to murder that poor woman. Also I should note this is not the first time i have heard of “doctors” in texas murding some one under this law. There was a case of a woman that had a child that the “doctors” did not deam was worthing of saving and they murdered that child, against the mothers wishes.
I will make sure I do not buy things that are from TX to the best of my ability, right now I am not buynig things made by Kraft, and i try to avoid Kraft’s parent company and other compainies own by Phillip Moris. And I try to avoid products from China. So I will just at TX to my list.

My News sources

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff), News, Politics, Technology
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Published on: December 22, 2005

Yesterday I vented some stuff part of the topic I vented on was where do I get my news from, and how I do not like people attack some of the places I get my news from. In that post I talked about Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News. But I will have to say that is not the only places I get news from. And I do know that the bulk of Rush’s show is his comments on the stories he covers, it more like the editorial section of a newspaper, not 100% news, but it based off of the news. But I think I do get an ok balance of news. If you go my news aggregator that I have online for my news reading I have other blogs and other not so conservative sites. Such as (for local news) WPXI and KDKA and (for international) BBC and Radio Sweden. Those 4 sources are liberal (well I view them as liberal) to different degrees (RS being the most ultra-liberal of the group and KDKA being the lest liberal of the group) and some blogs (Religious, friends and opinion) that I feel moderate things out. I believe when I go though it, I do get the actual facts (the union of where most of them meet, from Rush, the most conservative, to RS the most liberal) and then I can form my own opinion (usually more on the conservative side) I would love to have Rush “Stack of Stuff” aggregated there too, but he does not offer that at this time.
You can see a list of the sources here, with a list of the last few entries from them

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