I have been finding that typing with my finger in the current state of uselessness. I can not touch type with out that finger. Also I can not hunt and peak either because when I try to hunt and peak I start to touch type out of habit, and that starts to mess every thing up for me. I feel like my whole left hand has been cut off, since I am so use to touch typing that since I can n ot do it it has become hard for me to just type a simple message since I am trying to type in 2 different ways at the same time. Of course if I did not try to us both hands I might have different experience.
The Cut Finger
I just changed the dressing on my finger today.
I decided to take a picture of the stitches in my finger. [pic]1[/pic]. Not pretty is it? I just made an appointment with my doctor to have them removed on the 11th of this month.
Picture of the finger
Here is a picture of my finger in its bandages. Under those bandages there are 3 stiches in my finger. Right now they are a bit irritating.
This Weeks scanner net
The Scanner net’s Podcast is now up. This will be the last week I put an anoucement of it here. You can check it out at http://scanner.hamradiobb.com
It is good to be home
I got home at about 4 today, and it is good to be home. I always love comming home to Pittsburgh, the only city that that make an entry.
Pictures from the Ohio Linux fest
I just got the pictures from the Ohio Linux fest up on my web site up. You can see the pictures here. enjoy
More from the OhioLinuxFest
The Ohio Linux Fest was great fun. I got some good pictures. I will be posting them later. The talks were good. It was great fun. I got to have Bit more advanture then the rest of the people there. At the end when I was helping taking things down, I sliced my finger open, and I did a good job od cutting it open. I got to go to a ER here in Columbus OH, and get 3 stiches. But other then cutting myself really baddly it was a great time. My finger has one heck of a hangover, even thought I had nothing to drink last night.
The RIAA is full of idiots
This site is running a story about how how Warner Music wants to cut off apple he appently believes that it is his music that is driving the sales of iPods. Well I only buy music off of the iTMS since I have an iPod, I did not get an iPod because I got music from the iTMS. But I will say this to those idiots at Warner Music if you take your music off of the iTMS, you can count on a loss of money, since some people will stop buying your stuff (that assumes that I would buy any of your POS in the first place) The RIAA does not get it, apple is helping them make more money, if they attack apple they will not make as much. I will not be buying music that is not on the iTMS.
Some minor fixes to the Front page of the web site
As some one pointed out that the html was not always putting the picturs where I wanted them on the screen of my main page at http://www.mikeoconnor.net so I have put the text for it and the picture inside of a table. I am hoping that it will render the page more like what I want it to look like. I do have a few more things I have to do to the site to make it to the state it should be at.
Tropical Depression 19
Well TD19 has formed. It is not the same system they have been watching for the last few days. They are still watching the one south of the Gulf of Mexico, but TD19 is now formed, they are expecting this to turn into a tropical storm. If this one does turn into a tropical storm it will be named Tropical Storm Stan. So in the next few days we might be watching Stan cross the Atlantic. I don’t think this one will ever make land fall, but it will be nice to watch. Lets all hope that the tropical wave that they are watching that is south of the Gulf does not form into anything.
In the Eastern Pacific they are tracking Hurricane Otis right now. They belive it might hit Mexico. It could in theory travil up into AZ as a Tropical Depression and drop alot of rain into the desert.
Finding a church when you are out of town
One of the things about travailing that I don’t like is when you travel and will be away from home on a Sunday, is trying to find a church to go to. This trip for me I have 3 things I have to find normally I only have 2. I have a friend that is here with me, and this person would like a later serve rice. And my things want/need in a church are as follows. I need a good confessional LCMS church, I can not go to a “church growth” church, “church growth” contains bad theology. so the first thing I need is a confessional church, that is to say a church that fully adheres to the confessions of the Lutheran church as it is in the Book of Concord. The next is I can not go to a church that has a “contemporary” worship I must have the liturgy, I strongly prefer the liturgy in TLH, but in a pinch I will accept the liturgy in LW. Now if any one that reads this knows of a Good LCMS church that meets those 3 things please leave a post here to let me know. So far in my first run though the resources I know of I did not find one, also I really want one that would have the Lords Supper this Sunday. I have gotten use to having the Lords Supper every Sunday and I must have it since it is one of the most holy gifts from God.
So major amount of code in a short period of time
Yesterday and last night I pulled off a 16 hour code session. I put out about 1000 of code in to the program for work. in those 16 hours. I also debugged to make sure they were working the way I was expecting them to work, and thought they should work. I will admit it was not anything hard or creative but it was still a lot of code. I had not pulled an all nighter in a long time, and oddly enouph it felt great to do it. I was feeling like I was on top of the world when I finished the code did the last debugging session and checked the output, and it was just as I predicted it would be, and the way I wanted it to be. What a great fealing.
Ohio Linux Fest
I have gone to the Ohio Linux Fest. Got here around 7pm tonight. It is starting to look like it is going to be a great time. Also when I got in the Central Ohio group was having their Traffic net, so I thought I would send back to Pittsburgh a radio postcard to the people on the traffic net there. I will probably get on one of the repeaters later tonight just to see what goes on around this city for the fun of it.
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