The iHome

Categories: Family, Technology
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Published on: November 9, 2005

A week ago I mentioned to my mother that I wanted to get a radio with an external antenna; the reason for this was that RF reception in my bedroom is really bad. Well today for my birthday (Nov 9, 1976) the gift my parents got me (well one of the 2) is a radio called the iHome. This radio has a dock connector for the iPod, and 2 external antennas (one for FM and one for Am) I will admit I have been wanting one of these radios for a while, but I could never bring myself to spend the money on one, and today I got one from my parents (Thanks mom and dad I love it) This thing is sweet, I have not gotten to use it much since I just got it, and just set it up, but it is going to be great. I also don’t have to worry about the battery on my iPod going dead during the night, the iHome will charge the iPod also as it plays music from it, via the dock connection. I got this iPod 2 years ago from my parents as a Christmas gift, and I use it all the time, and now I am going to get even more use out of it because of this new gift the iHome from them.


They also got me something called TuneTraveler this is a portable speaker for the iPod, this will be convent for times I am out of town over night, but with it I will have to remember to take the iPod’s charger with me since the TuneTraveler does not charge the iPod when you use the iPod with it.

Sorry about the lack of updates

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Published on: November 8, 2005

Sorry about not updating my blog for a few days, but I have had other things I had to attend to. But I am now back to updating the blog.

What is up in France?

Categories: News
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Published on: November 8, 2005

I have been reading a lot of news stories off of the BBC about the violence in France. The way the BBC is reporting it, you would think that right now that there is more violence in France right now then in Iraq.

movies from the 80’s

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Published on: November 3, 2005

I just got back from hanging with some friends, we watched “The never ending story”. We got to talking about movies from the 80’s. The 80’s had some good movies. Some other good movies from the 80’s include:

  • Tron
  • SpaceBalls
  • Labyrinth

Another good (but stupid) movie is “Killer Klowns from outer space”. The 80’s was a good decades to grow up in.

Democrats defeat election-law aid for bloggers

Categories: News, Politics
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Published on: November 3, 2005

C-Net is running an artical on a bill in the house that failed. the bill was a good one, it would have codified that blogs are free expresion, and therefor immunize bloggers from campain fincance reform, the democrates want to regulate what is said on blogs. We might not be able to link to canidates, that we support, web sites.

Email is nearly dead

Categories: Technology
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Published on: October 30, 2005

Thanks to sites like sorbs and things like spam, email will soon be dead. When you need email, but you don’t get it because it comes though a sever that sorbs lists (rightly or wrongly) email can no longer be trusted as a communication source. I had to move all my yahoo groups subscriptions to my ISP’s email account, instead of using my email on my web hosting company. If comcast blocks based on sorbs I will have to find some email provider (and I would be willing to pay) that does not block based on the inaccurate information (listing mailing lists that people willing subscribed to as spam, case in point yahoo groups) in sorbs. But it is now only a matter of time before email dies, thanks to both spam, and sorbs (and sorbs like scams)

Sorbs lists mailling list servers as spam servers

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Published on: October 30, 2005

Sorbs has started to list yahoo groups’ servers as a spam server, so either they don’t like yahoo, or they don’t check the servers they list as spam servers, I bet MSN likes that, just add the competition to the list. And unfortunately my hosting company uses them as a anti-spam list, so now I am a victim of sorbs, I contacted all 3, my hosting company says they will look into it, but that was 2 weeks ago, I contacted yahoo, but all I got was a form reply, and Sorbs, basically said f*** you. I would love to see Sorbs go away, they don’t even do basic homework when they list a server.

Finally the Pens win

Categories: Hockey
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Published on: October 28, 2005

Finally the Penguins win their first game. It is about time. Lets hope that they start to become a better team then they have been all year, lets hope this is a new team for the penguins and they start to win more games.

What is up with the SW bands as of late

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Published on: October 26, 2005

For the last week or so I can not get many stations. It is not like I have a bad antenna I have 450 feet worth of antenna. I should be pulling in the world, but I just have not been getting anything this week. I use to get almost every thing From Radio Korea to Radio Sweden; I have changed nothing, so I just want to figure out what the heck has gone wrong. I have heard talk about the Ionosphere acting up, I wonder if there is much truth to that talk, and if so if that is what I am getting hit with.

Pens loss yet again

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Published on: October 26, 2005

What is wrong with them?? 8 Games 8 losses. The only team in the NHL this year with out a win. I think we are well on our way of not being in the Play offs.

South Park on UPN

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Published on: October 26, 2005

UPN has started to show South Park on it channel. And here in Pittsburgh I was watching one, it is the one where they people become atheists and start to shove food up their buts and crap out of their mouth. I will admit not the greatest stuff, but a bit funny. But I had a friend over today and we were watching it, and when the parts come out that have a person crapping out of their mouth they have been blacking it out with the following statement: “The scene of crapping out of his mouth has been removed for your protection” me and my friend both said what the fsck. Why would they edit it out? I don’t see how this could 1) be a violation of any of the FCC laws 2) how is it for our protection, just stupid. Yet they used other words I would find more offensive then showing people crapping out of their mouth, I am not going to complain about the language, I am just saying.

A freq for hams and scanners to listen to

Categories: Ham Radio, News
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Published on: October 23, 2005

The W3YJ repeater has linked up to echo link to the Hurricane net in monitor mode. This will allow us to listen to it, and still retain the use of the repeater if we need to. So if you are a ham or have a scanner tune to 443.45 to hear the news of Hurricane Wilma as it happens.

Why are shows like “COPS” so popular

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Published on: October 23, 2005

Wired is running an article on how the book “Police Call” is ending its publication run. They made a comment in it that I never really thought of. Scanning of the “Public Safety” bands was just the precursor to shows like COPS. It looks like TV has hurt another hobby.
The show “COPS” just puts on TV what once was enjoyed on a scanning radio.
I do enjoy scanning the Pittsburgh Police, EMS, and Fire freqs.

DVR and older Hockey games

Categories: Hockey, Technology
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Published on: October 23, 2005

Back on the 16th of this month I had my DVR record the Vancouver Canucks vs the Dallas Stars. And I just watched it today. It was a good game, during the second period of the game the two teams go into some really good hockey. There was a good amount of time where there was just a pitched battle over the puck, no stop in play, just back and forth a few shots on goal, I was out of my seat during that time period. I will have to say that the Canucks and the Stars will be two teams to watch this year.
So far I am looking to watch the games of following teams

  • Penguins (mainly because they are my home team and I still remember fondly them from back in the early 90’s when they were a great team, but so far this year they have not won at all, and I don’t foresee the losing streak ending soon. Please Penguins prove me wrong here)
  • Coyotes (I really want to see where Gretzky will take the team)
  • Canucks
  • Stars (after seeing that game from the 16th I wonder what they are going to do this year)

Also I was right in this post that I put up between 2nd and 3rd period that the pens would lose the game, but it does not take a genus to know that, with they way they are playing and how far they were down, it was a given.

The Hockey game tonight

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Published on: October 22, 2005

Well at the current time (8:45pm) the hockey game is in the second intermission, and they only have the 3rd period to go. I am going to go out on a limb here, and I am going to say I think the Penguins will loss again today. I can say this with some form of confidence, since they are down 5 to 1.

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