The new place

by Michael O'Connor
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Published on: December 4, 2004

So the move went well, I am now in the new place. For now since I moved I do not have DSL till verizon can turn it on. They said it would be 2 weeks from the time they turn on the phone service. Well that was on Monday (Nov 29) I still am with out full speed internet access. So for now I am using a dial up account, man this feels like the 90’s all over again. But it does give me some extra time to do other things that I normally don’t do. Maybe I spend too much time on the internet.

To all my friends I don’t get to bother on IM all the time, I wish I could continue to bother you, I promise I will start bothering you as soon as my DSL is up again. As soon as I get the email from verizon, all I have to do is turn on the DSL modem and I will be in business again.

Classic Christmas commercial

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Holoday stuff
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Published on: November 29, 2004

It is nice to see that one company now still sees the value in a classic. For as long as I can remember Eat-n-Park has played the same Christmas commercial every year. It is very simple and short but it is nice, and it is nice to see that they still use the same commercial still. I wish more companies would do that and use classic commercials instead of trying to out do each other. Many commercials are just to flashy and gaudy and just make me not want to buy their products. But for the most part I have found TV to be a wasteland with nothing on.

Had to read a paper that was not worth the paper it was printed on

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
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Published on: November 29, 2004

Today I had to read a paper that was not worth the paper it was printed on. The person that wrote it loved to put equations in it. The paper was so full of equation, it seamed that was the only reason that that paper was written. It was a pain to read, and where he was not using equations he was giving examples, you could take the 31 pages down to 3 pages if you took all the examples out of it. I am not a good writer but this seems the write of it was just trying to waist space.

A bad joke.

by Michael O'Connor
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Published on: November 29, 2004

A friend just IMed me the following joke.
“If you play the Windows XP CD backwards, you get a satanic message…… That’s nothing. If you play it forward, it installs Windows XP! ”

I just though I would post it here since I found it a bit funny.

The Move

by Michael O'Connor
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Published on: November 29, 2004

Well the move went well. I am now in the new apt it has so much room. I am not sure where I am going to put all this room. I have been told by the phone company that I will not have my DSL till 2 weeks after the phone line gets hooked up. So for now I have dial up, and cell phone connectivity. So there will not be that many updates to the blog.

Happy New Year

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Church
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Published on: November 29, 2004

What am I talking about here, well the church year starts in Advent which started yesterday, so the church year has just started yesterday.

Carol of the Bells.

by Michael O'Connor
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Published on: November 23, 2004

That has got to be my favorite Christmas Carol of all times. I have 30 different version of it in my iTunes library (well that is what a search of my library turns up) that is about 1.3 hours. I know I am starting 2 days early on my Christmas music, but when I was a kid I remember my parents would start the Christmas music on the drive up to Behamtan New York when we would visit our Grandparents for Thanksgiving so for me this is not to early it just tradition in my family. A part of me misses those yearly trips up to Behamtan, but time moves one and things change.

The Retreat over the weekend

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Church
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Published on: November 21, 2004

This last weekend I went on a retreat with some friends of mine from church. It was a good weekend, very relaxing and refreshing. I took some pictures when I was there. I have put them into 2 groups of pictures. One groups are just the normal every day snapshots that most people would have. The other group is of pictures that we had some fun taking/making we went outside late at night and started to play with the aperture size and the expose time. Well from there we just played with the settings of the camera. I really like how some of the pictures turned out.

Land of Plenty

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
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Published on: November 19, 2004

Since I am moving in a few days, I have started to pack up the food that I will not be using in the next week. And I realized we do truly do live in the land of plenty. I filled 2 boxes of dry goods, and still have some more dry goods left to pack, and that does not include the dry goods I plan on using in the next week. Then there is the fridge and freezer. I have over the last month let those go empty but they still have plenty of food in them. We should truly give thanks to God above for the bounty that he has given to us.

An early Thanksgiving meal

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Church
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Published on: November 18, 2004

I had some fun tonight. The church had a thanksgiving dinner for the students before they left for the thanksgiving break. So we had a full thanksgiving meal tonight. An interesting thing happened though. An old friend of mine who I know from the University of Pittsburgh was there. It turns out his girlfriend is taking ESL classes at my church. It was great to see him again. It was a fun night.

I am going to try to quit slashdot again.

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
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Published on: November 17, 2004

I am going to try to quit slashdot again, this time I gave a friend of mine my ID and password and asked him the change my login info so I can not log in. I hope that I can get off of slashdot this time. Things there have just gotten so childish that it is not funny anymore.

Due to the rash of bot posts

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff, Web Site
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Published on: November 17, 2004

I have globably disabled all posting to the blog for now, hopefully the children will tire of it, and go away. But for now I am sorry to my friends that read this, I have to disable the comments because there are some imature children out there.

Luther Quest

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Church
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Published on: November 16, 2004

A while back a friend of mine showed me a web site called Luther Quest Then again I saw it come up in another mailing list I am a member of. I figure I might look around and participate in it for a while and see what it is about. It does look interesting, I know of 2 people that post there, I hear that Pastor Hogg and Father Fenton both post there, 2 men I have great respect for. I have seen posts by Pastor Hogg there; I have not seen anything by Father Fenton yet. I will dabble there a bit before I will say if it is good or not. I wonder what Pastor Hogg and Father Fenton think of it.

Video Section

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Web Site
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Published on: November 15, 2004

I have finally got the video section of the web site up. This is where I will put all the videos I put on my site. It should be a bit cleaner since I want to put a bit of a description on them and do not want them to be put in with the pictures on my site, I think it came out nice; I am using phpNuke to do the videos.

St Michaelmass

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Church
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Published on: November 15, 2004

I have finally put on my site the video I took at First Trinity of the St Michael and all Angel service a while back. You can see the video here. Took me long enough I just kept forgetting to put it up

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