Hurricane Katrina

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: News
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Published on: August 29, 2005

Wow, I just heard that Hurricane Katrina is a record breaking storm. Right now I am drawing information in from 3 sources, radio, TV, and the web. I hope that the people down there do not suffer too many losses. This storm will be interesting to follow. I wonder if it will do the same thing that Ivan did last year. The thing that Ivan did last year was as it started to disperse it went back out to sea and reintensify to the point that it went back to either a tropical storm or tropical depression. I will probably follow this storm till it is fully dispersed.

Biking Distance vs Map Distance

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Biking, Friends
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Published on: August 28, 2005

Today I went to bike over to a friend’s house. I looked at the distance on the map (google earth) Looking at the distance it looks like a large distance to bike, but when I biked it, it did not seam like it was that far that the map was showing, and it not like it was all downhill, it was 5/8 of the way up hill. I went over to my friend’s house because he just got into town and I wanted to day hi to him.

Turning off the Wireless access for my router

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

I don’t use the wireless access to my network anymore. So I have turned off the wireless part of the network for security reasons. I figure since I don’t use it anymore it is more of a security liability. I don’t use the air port card on the Mac iBook anymore. Nor do I use the wireless card on the work laptop anymore, since I don’t use it at work since that laptop was compromised two times in the past. I have taken a router into work to be a first line of defense against any hacking attempt.

Blue grass/Country music on Short wave radio

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Short Wave Radio Stuff
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Published on: August 27, 2005

I finally found my first music station on the short wave radio bands. The stuff that they had on that station was nothing like what you would find on the local (nationally owned) commercial stations. Normally I will make jokes about country and blue grass music as not being real music, but this stuff is pretty good. This station was at about 7.4 MHz to 7.5 MHz. I will have to say this is nothing like what you will hear on any of the commercial (nationally owned) stations. I am impressed by this music I have found. I decided to check out to see if there is any of them on the iTMS, and not a signal one on the iTMS. I still hate the country music that are on the local stations, but this stuff is completely different to the point I am not sure they are really in the same genre of music.
I am starting to belive more people should invest in a good short wave reciver. I got lucky my parents are loaning to me their old Lafayette radio, that they were not using, when they loaned it to me it took some work to fix it up to get it working, I do need to find a place to find some vacuum tubes incase the ones in this radio fail on me.

A great picture of one of my bettas

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: August 27, 2005

I was messing around with my camera and my fish and taking some pictures of the fish, most of them did not turn out well at all, but one of them turn out to be that 1 in a 1000 pictures.

I got lucky with this shot, the tank is 10 gallons large, and I was at the end of the tank, so I had to want till he swam over to my side and just as he was turning to go away I snapped this picture.
If any one is intersted I have more pictures of my bettas as follows
Stroustrup
Franklen (the one in the picture above)

Aquatic Gardening

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: August 27, 2005

Today I did some gardening work in my 2 10 gallon betta tanks. I also did some work in the 10 gallon take I had setup for the baby fish when they were born in my other tank; I have since moved them back to the 20 gallon tank. I am thinking that the 10 gallon tank that the baby fish spent the first 3 months of their lives in might just become another betta tank at the end of the month; I don’t see any reason to let the tank go empty any longer. I also moved the 3 10 gallon tanks around, so that I could have them all together, and placed more lights on it for the plants. Basically it just involved reorienting the two tanks that already had betas in them and putting the third (empty) tank next to them.

PETA hypocrisy

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Politics
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Published on: August 27, 2005

It looks like the so called animal rights group PETA real kill animals. The same group that thinks that animals are more important then humans. Right now I am listing to the 3rd hour of Issues Etc, From August 25 2005 They have as a guest on the person that does the PETA kills animals.com ( you will have to skip to 1/2 though the mp3 to get to the part about PETA). He is going over some of the things that Peta does, aparently they protest Churches, Synogogs and Moscs. When one church tried to get a restraining order on Peta, because the people that in that congregation did not like being harassed every Sunday, trying to keep Peta out of their church, Peta claimed that the church did not have the right to keep them out of the churches private property, and then sued the church. More info on PETA

3rd hour of Issues Etc, From August 25 2005

Deleted some Photos off of the web site

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

I deleted some old photos on my photo section. I freed up about 100Mb on my space at my hosting company. So this should allow me to add some other pictures to my web site. I right now only have 280Mb free on my account. I have over 1.5 GB of photos on my web site at this time. I did this originally because for some odd reason one of my albums on my site was not displaying its photos.

The location of my Mac computer

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
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Published on: August 26, 2005

I am thinking it would be nice to have a small desk just for my Mac. I would like to put it opposite of my other computers in my technology section of my apartment. I might have to move some things around in my apartment if I get a new table for the place for the Mac.

The Temperature

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: August 26, 2005

The temperature here has finally fallen below the 80 degree F. I have now turned of the AC unit. I was running the last 3 months because I wanted to keep the temperature of my fish tanks below 90, since if the temperature went above 90 I could loss my fish. Now that it is below 80 I have turned off the AC unit that should save me some money on my electric bill. It is also nice to have the fresh air in my apartment again. We should have 2 maybe 3 months of good weather before the temperature drop to a point where I will have to shut the windows again because it will be to cold.

SWlogger

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

I have been putting together the core objects for the SWlogger program. I have so far defined the info I want to track, I am thinking the next step would be to build a testing interface. Once I get a test interface done, I will then go on to testing the interface and the core objects. After I am happy that the interface and core objects are good and correct, I will start with the database. I hope to have this finished by the end of September.

Packet Radio

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Geekdom, Ham Radio, Technology
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Published on: August 24, 2005

The other day I picked up miscellaneous plugs from Radio shack the other day. I plan on building a cable to go from my computer to my Icom 2100H radio. Also I am going to try setup a packet station. I will not be on all the time like some other stations would be, but I want to play with it. If you are in Pittsburgh and know of any good packet station I can connect to, please leave a message that includes the station callsign and Freq. I should be up and running by the end of the weekend. Also I should note that the stations should be on 2 meters.

Google Earths view of the Point

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Hay it is funny, Pittsburgh stuff
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Published on: August 23, 2005

I was messing around with Google Earth. I zoomed in on the point (Point State park) and when I looked at it, there was something out of place. When I zoomed in closer there were boats on the land. And I realized that the picture that they are using for that view is from last year after Ivan hit Pittsburgh.

Short Wave radio recording (again)

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Geekdom, Short Wave Radio Stuff
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Published on: August 23, 2005

Last night I went to record my scanner (I did this to test the recording software.) and it worked well, I set it to record a radio station (an FM station, but the thing being record is unimportant right now) and the software recorded the audio well, the only problem there was scanner changed station after an hour and half, but other then that the software record the audio for 3 hours with out problem. So I know can record the short wave radio once I get the earphone plug adaptor. I might post some of the audio I pull off of the air here. But first I have to look into the law about posting record news recording from other countries.

Tropical Depression Jose

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: News
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Published on: August 23, 2005

I just looked over at the National Hurricane Center, and I saw that we are up to Jose, there is also 2 more areas of possible Tropical cyclone development. There is one near Florida; it is so close to land I don’t think it will develop into anything of note. But there is one in the middle of the Atlantic near the equator that one might develop into something. But remember I am not a mythologist so this is all guessing and I could be totally off base here.
I don’t know why I watch the NHC, it is very unlikly that any Hurricane will affect Pittsburgh (but we all remember Ivan last year so who knows.) I just find it fun to watch, it would be cool if Google Earth’s images of the Alantic would be updated each day that would be great to see the storms on the Google Earth program

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