Fun with pictures

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Aquarium, Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: September 10, 2005

A few weeks ago I was talking with some people on a fish forum about how one of my fish sleeps. It is a Betta and he has a habit of sleeping vertically. One of the people on the forum ask if I could take a picture of him sleeping. Well since I did need a picture of him sleeping I could not turn on the lights to take the picture because that would wake him up. Yes I am referring to the fish as a him because since it is a Betta, and male Betta’s are the ones with color. Well as I said I could not turn on the light, so I had to increase the exposer time for the picture. I set the exposer to 12 seconds, and I could not resist it, so I jumped in front of the camera for 8 of the seconds picture.


This was a fun picture to take.
Also for any one that is interested the Betta in the picture is fine, during the day he acts normally, just sleeps in a very odd way

Well it started

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff, News
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: September 10, 2005

Blogs are now starting the whole “never forget” thing for tomorrow. I recognize the impact that the attacks had on America, and no we should not push it out of our collective memory, but do we have to go though the same thing every year? I am not saying we should not have a moment of silence, but we have to dedicate one day a year to it, it is almost if some people have turned it into a Holiday. I know that sounds perverted and it is, but hear me out, discovery channel is advertising a new 9/11 special that will air tomorrow.
I know alot of people going to be mad about this post.

The Pittsburgh “blogosphere” interbreeding

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff
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Published on: September 10, 2005

The web site Pittsburgh webloggers is a great web site, for people to see what the average Pittsburgh is thinking, and get a good cross section of the population. But I have noticed something, there seams to be some idea interbreeding going on. I have seen that some stories will start on one blog, then will propagate across many Pittsburgh blogs. It is interesting to see the ideas propagate and see the different thoughts on the idea

TV Turner card

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Technology
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Published on: September 10, 2005

Today I decided to dump some money into a TV tuner card. I have been recording allot of TV on my DVR, but I don’t want to sit in front of the TV all the time. So I got the tuner card, that has a “Composite” input that allows me to have the output of the DVR go into the card. It also has a cable input so I can plug it into but I don’t think I will plug in the cable into it, I just want it so I can get to watch while I am working on the computer.

Trying to correct my last name in the FCC database

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: September 10, 2005

Well I finally got around to changing my address for my FCC license for my Ham radio license. I again put in a correction to my last name, they have in the database “O’Conner” I am not an er I want it to be spelled correctly “O’Connor” that is with an or. In the note section, I put a request to make note of the last name, and went on to talk about where the name is misspelled and specified it 2 times in the note section. Let’s see if they get it right this time. Last time I did the change for my address they transposed the numbers in my address (but that was about 3 years ago at my old place where I lived) It also mentioned that my license is still good for 6.1 years.

More ShortWave radio audio

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Short Wave Radio Stuff
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Published on: September 8, 2005

I have finally gotten around to recording the news off of the short wave radio. It has 3 sections separated by “white space” (aka silence) The first audio in the file is from Radio Vietnam, the next section is China Radio International (with just under it, on the same freq some evangelical shouting something about the Bible, I don’t really listen to the evangelicals on short wave radio, since most of them are nuts, and hold to heretical positions.) The third part is again China Radio International, I got tired of the under noise, so I started to tune around a bit more, and found CRI on a different freq that did not have the noise underneath it. I hope to get more later from the Western World to put up, tonight I was just getting Asia, still a good listen, but I was having a bit of trouble pulling it in.

I have finally gotten around to recording the news off of the short wave radio.

Track backs are back on, but with moderation

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff, Web Site
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Published on: September 8, 2005

I now have worked a bit on the site. Any trackback that comes in will go into the moderation pool so that they will not be displayed until I either approve them or copy the IP address to my banned list, and delete them. So now I put the trackback file back to its original name, so people can send trackbacks to my site but they will not be displayed until I approve them, and all spam trackbacks will get their IP address banned and the trackback deleted without ever being displayed, so no google benefit for the effort.

New Feature for the comments of the blog

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff
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Published on: September 8, 2005

I have found a new feature for the comments on my blog, if you hit the Enter key in your comment, it will now be displayed on your comment so you can now format your comments so that you can have paragraphs (I know of only 2 people who post here that might make us of this) So now posts should look better, this is also retroactive, the previous posts that the writer use the Enter on will now show it.

Upgreade to the blog software here

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff, Web Site
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Published on: September 8, 2005

I just got the latest version of the bBlog software and installed it on my site, it all looks fine. I have kept my modifications that I have made to my site, so you the users/readers should not see any changes. The changes are mainly on the admin side of the site. I don’t really like the new interface on the admin side of the program, but the added features that it gives me out weigh the stuff I don’t like in the look and feel. It will be just a matter of time till I get use to it. One of the nice features is the mass deletion of comments; this probably will be used on spam. Also there is mass approval of comments. I am still looking forward to the image verification for comments, but that is promised for version .8 so till then I will still have to deal with spam comments, which all will be deleted. If you my users/readers find any problems please leave a post here with what the problem was and how you got it so I can recreate it, I will read them and look into it

What do Hurricane victumes need most?

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: News, Politics
Comments: 3 Comments
Published on: September 7, 2005

Is it food? Water? Shelter? Well according to Plan “Parenthood” no they don’t need those 3 things most. Plan “Parenthood” thinks they need abortions most. This looks to me that Plan “Parenthood” is just pushing their addenda, yes I admit I am pushing my addendahere, but the difference is I am not asking people for money to “help” people just to push my addenda. I still say if you want to donate to the people that need help donate to a group that will give out food, water, and shelter.
LCMS World Relief
The Salvation Army
Catholic Charities
And others.

Phone number in the Pittsburgh area for donate to the victumes of the Hurricane being relocated to the Pittsburgh area.

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: News
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Published on: September 7, 2005

I saw this over at Pittsburgh Bloggers I am just going to cut-n-past it here below and link over to it.

“Due to the number of individuals and organizations that have extended a helping hand, Chief Executive Onorato announced today the creation of a hotline for residents who want to donate food, clothing, money, housing and other assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Please call CONTACT Pittsburgh Inc. at (412) 423-0202 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. if you are interested in offering your assistance.”

“Individuals or families who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina and who have temporarily relocated to our region may also contact the hotline if they are in need of aid.”

I personally spoke with a woman who is there at CONTACT Pittsburgh, and she was thrilled that the blogging community would become aware of the hotline. Please contact the above phone number and let them know how you’d like to help (food, supplies, volunteering, and even offering your home to refugees)!

On a related note, CONTACT Pittsburgh (normally) is a 24-hour Suicide/Crisis hotline that is always looking for volunteers. They offer 4-hr hour shifts and are very flexible to your schedule. They also could desperately use your help. You can view their website by clicking this link.”

3 Tropical Storm

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: News
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Published on: September 7, 2005

As of today we have 3 Tropical Storms in the Atlantic. The names of all 3 are Maria, Nate, and Ophelia. At this time only Tropical Storm Ophelia is the only one that presents a danger to Land. It is also predicted to become a Hurricane. And we still have 2 1/2 months to go in this Hurricane season.

Trackbacks

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff, Web Site
Comments: Comments Off on Trackbacks
Published on: September 7, 2005

I will probably turn on Trackbacks later this week (some time in the next 2 days) but remember that you can still always leave a comment, since the comment file is still there.

Tropical Storm Ophelia

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: News
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Published on: September 7, 2005

We are up to Tropical Storm Ophelia now. This is a really active season, we did not make it to the “O”s till November of last year. Any one want to guess as how high we might get this year. Take a look here for a list of storm names for this year (and the next 5 years)

Trackback file renamed

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff, Web Site
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Published on: September 6, 2005

For now to stop some of the spammers I have renamed the trackback file. I will name it back later when I feel like it. But now since I have not ever gotten a real trackback, and nothing but spam via the trackback API. I will be getting alot of 404’s in my error log for now. Maybe this will get my site put on some type of spammer blacklist as being brocken.

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