Podcasts

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

I think I am subscribed to too many Podcasts. I am so far behind on them, I have on my iPod about 1.2 days of podcasts (total listening to time) Today while at work I killed 7 of those hours, I am going to be up later to do more work tonight, and should be able to kill off another 5 hours of it. Today my computer at home should have pulled down about 8 more hours to listen too. Good thing that the weekend is comming up, a time for me to catch up on my listening since on the days of the weekend iTunes only pulls down 3 hours on each of those days.
The Podcasts that I listen to are as follows:
Issues, Etc (a LCMS show that is 3 hours long on weekdays and 2 hours on Sunday, This is my favorit one, it is hosted by Pr. Todd Wilken it is one of the best talk shows out there IMO)
Law and Gospel (another LCMS show, that is 1 hour every weekdays)
Rush Limbaugh (the Podcast is only about 1.5 hours on the weekdays, since the bumper music and comercials are removed)
Coast to Coast AM (I find this show funny as all get out, there people they have on it take themselfs seriously. I would listen to it on the radio, but it is on at 1am in the morrning, and I like to sleep and this is only 2 hours a day every day)
So that is what I like to listen to and they all are talk shows.

Google is starting to discover the new address for my blog

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff, Technology, Web Site
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Published on: September 29, 2005

I have noticed that Google has seen the new address for my blog http://blog.mikeoconnor.net and it has indexed 2 pages from the new address already. I am sure after about a week it should have discovered all the pages are now at the new address, and I hope that they flush out the old links.

The changes to the web site

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Web Site
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Published on: September 29, 2005

Tomorrow morning at around 1am or 2am (local) will we finalizing the new address space for the web site. No longer will the blog be accessible via the http://www.mikeoconnor.net it will only be accessible via http://blog.mikeoconnor.net http://www.mikeoconnor.net will be it own namespace starting tomorrow at about 1am or 2am, So any one that might have this site booked marked for the blog you might want to update your bookmarks or web links.

The Lord of the Rings RPG group

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Family
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Published on: September 29, 2005

As I mentioned before the RPG group I have started with a friend of mine, is starting to get going. I believe I have completed my character, my friend Matt has found 6 other players. So we should have 8 people at the first game that we are hoping to get going sometime in October. The game is promising to be interesting.

Some thoughts on some TV shows

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
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Published on: September 29, 2005

First I just want to put out a plug for a new show on the WB that I found and like it is called “supernatural” it is a good show

Next I want to make a few comments on episode of “Start Gate SG1” in the episode that I want to comment on the basic premise is that 2 people from an alternate universe come though some device into another one (the current one in the show) They have the SG-1 group (well part of it) go back to the alternate universe that the 2 are from original to help defeat the Jafar of the alternate universe. Also they went on to say that they could not dial the gate for the alternative universe like they could dial the Star Gate. And that they had to find it. Maybe I was thinking about the episode to much, but if you had to find it, by looking into the gate type thing to see if it was the right one or not, how could they be sure that it was the right one, or not one that was “right next to” the right one were everything was the same except some miner detail? The other question I would have is if you could alter the out come of another alternate universe, I question is that a wise, could not cross contaminating different realities mess the multiverse up. also for more on what a multiverse vs. a universe is check out string theory, string theory at this time demands that there be a multiverse out there, and that we only exist in one of the many possible universe (also see quantum theory it touches on it a bit but not as much as string theory does). I will admit that I am over analyzing a TV show, but that is just the way I can be sometimes.

Rush Limbaugh bashes windows

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Technology
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Published on: September 28, 2005

I was listening to the Rush Limbaugh’s podcast from Monday (I am that far behind on my podcast listening) and he mentioned how some of the 24/7 subscribers were saying they were having trouble with the “ditto cam” he said it was working and had been working. He went on to say the following “if you are having problems, it must be on your end, you are probably using windows.” I thought it was great Rush Limbaugh bashed windows. For those of you that don’t know Rush Limbaugh is a Mac fan, if you watch the “ditto cam” you will see he has a Mac there.
Just another person on the list that does not like windows. I personaly love Linux, but Mac is a good OS too, I just don’t like windows, it is just too unstable.

The Links section of my web site

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Web Site
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Published on: September 28, 2005

I really need to update the links section of my website. I need to find a better web application to do that section also, I don’t really like the software that I am using for it much. Does any one know of any good web software for links?

The new home page what do you think

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Web Site
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Published on: September 27, 2005

Take a look at the new home page and hit the back button to get here to let me know what you think of it. I know it is not much, but I think it looks good, but of course I am not an artistic person so I don’t know. So some feed back on the new intro page would be helpful. Any thing you think I should add to it? Anything I should remove? Don’t like the colors of the page? Anything please let me know I will take all advice and at lest think about it.

Another Tropical Wave in the Alantic

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: News
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Published on: September 27, 2005

The NHC is tracking another Tropical Wave in the Alantic (well in the Gulf) They don’t expect it to become much of anything, but just keep an eye down there as the end of the week comes by. Lets hope it dies out before it can form into anything, that is the last thing that the gulf coast needs, even if it is just a Tropical Storm the ground down there is so wet that it probably could not absorbe anything else.

The new home page

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Web Site
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Published on: September 27, 2005

Well the new home page is done, it will site in the root of my space for a while, then I will create a location in the directory tree for it, to site by itself, and point the server to it, that probably will break any site that points to http://www.mikeoconnor.net/blog or anything like that, but I have notified all the people I know that links to my site about the major change and warned them that in a few day that the URL http://www.mikeoconnor.net/blog will not work and that they should update their links and book marks to http://blog.mikeoconnor.net it all the links should stay pritty much the same except the www is now blog and the /blog is dropped.

More on the update of the website address

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Web Site
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Published on: September 27, 2005

When the www.mikeoconnor.net is changed over I will be cleanning up the directories of the site, and after a few days after the change over you will not be able to access the blog via the www.mikeoconnor.net/blog address as that address will not exist, target date will be around September 30 of this year. This is just a heads up for those of you that have links or bookmarks to my site.

News and blog RSS feeds I follow

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: News, Politics, Web Site
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Published on: September 27, 2005

I have added a “News aggregator” And over time I will be move all the RSS feeds I read from the RSS readers on my computers to the web based system, so I can have access to it anywhere. Also I am making it available to every one on the net since these are things that I find interesting, and I hope every one here might find them of uses. Unfortunately the system I am using only understands RSS and does not understand ATOM feeds. But I did find that feed burner does allow people to create a RSS feed from any ATOM feeds (and the other way around too) so when I find a blot that is on blogger I will just get a new feed address from feedburner to get an RSS feed for my news aggregator.

Changes to the web site

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Web Site
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Published on: September 27, 2005

I will be remapping my web site. You will see the following changes to the address for my web site.

http://blog.mikeoconnor.net – This blog
http://rpg.mikeoconnor.net – The WiKi for the rpg game some of my friends and I are playing
http://news.mikeoconnor.net – A news aggregator of the rss feeds I read
http://www.mikeoconnor.net – A new intro page
http://photos.mikeoconnor.net – A link to my photo gallary
http://videos.mikeoconnor.net – A link to my video gallary

Audio from Radio Sweden finally up

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Short Wave Radio Stuff
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Published on: September 26, 2005

I finally got some audio from Radio Sweden. I got it tonight, and it is up here, as an mp3 It is about an anniversary of some boat that did trade with China. They don’t seam to be very forgiving of their ancestors though, the had some very harsh words for the people that did trade.

here, as an mp3

The Short Wave bands seem to be active as of late

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Short Wave Radio Stuff
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Published on: September 26, 2005

I was tuning around the Short Wave Radio band tonight, and there seems to be more active now then it has been for a while. I wonder exactly what is causing the upsurge in activity tonight. It is nice to have more stations to listen to. They are coming very nicely, I am still having some signal strength problems, but I think the main problems for me on that are that one I am inside the city, and two that I have the antenna in my apartment, both of those are not very conducive to receiving radio signals. I do try to compensate for the disadvantages I have there by having a very long antenna in my apartment, I have about 450 feet of wire wrapped around my apartment to compensate for the fact that I am in the city and have the antenna in my apartment.

And for those of you who are into the creative commons copyright, it looks like Radio China will be doing an article on it in the near future. The freq is somewhere between 9.2 and 9.8Mhz. Sorry that I can not be more exact with the freq, but I am using an older radio where the marker is a little bit off, and the bandspread is not dead on the freq and its marker is a little bit off too. It is about 500Khz off when the bandspread is set to 0, but it does change as you raise the bandspread is at about 90, I am trying to adjust for the bandspread missaliment here (it reads about 20 but to the best guess I can come to is that the aliment is about 70 off) And for the freq marker it is readding ~9.1Mhz. so I would guess about 9.69Mhz or about there somewhere.

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