I think I am becoming a talk show junkie. There are 2 talk shows I just hate missing. And I enjoy listening to talk shows in general, it is the only radio I can stand now. If I want music I will listen to my music collection, I will never don’t listen to music on the radio. The 2 talk shows I like are Issue Etc. on KFUO out of St. Louis, at 4:05pm EST available over the Internet and my second favorite is Rush Limbaugh
In the age of blogging, their searches have returned some interesting stuff. Just today I was looking at a list of were people come from when they come to my web site. And one was from a search on google for banning Russian IP address. For some reason I was the 8th hit. It saw the entry on Banned IP address because of spammers, and it also saw on the side of the page a link to my friends blog “John in Russia”. I see some day google will move known blogs out of their main index and maybe setup a new index just for blogs. Also I would guess that maybe they will make it possible to search and remove blogs out of the results. I have had problems with my own blog showing up in searches I do, but it make sense I am searching for things I am interested in and my blog about them too. So it only make sense that I should find my own site on google when I search for stuff.
Today as I was giving my pastors a lift to the airport, and on the drive out I saw the following 2 bumper stickers on the same car. The first was “Hate is not a family value” the second was a kerry sticker. The funny part is that the majority of the kerry base is built on hate, Hatred for Bush. So to see those 2 stickers next each other was a funny juxtaposion.
The traffic has died down a bit, but I still see that the traffic is higher then usual. I wonder how many are just stragglers, how many are return visits because they like it, and how many are returning trolls. Over the last few days I been getting trolls in the responses, which I have deleted. Well if there are some true new readers that like the site welcome, enjoy your stay and thanks for comming.
I have put the video back up on line, I hope that the traffic from slashdot has died down some. I am not going to put a link right to the file here, just to keep things light. But it should still be on the front page, if not go to the Technology section to find it, it is under that entry labeled “CMU’s Robotics Institute” Sorry I had to take it down, it was burning allot of bandwidth, and I figured I would let a few days pass before I put it back up.
This election year 1) scares me and 2) saddens me. Why? You may ask. Simple this, the next for years may (if Peroutka or [to a lesser extent] Bush get elected) could help save many many lives of the unborn if a judge needs to be appointed. But if the pro-murder kerry gets in, we could see the crime of murdering the Innocent unborn continue. I live in a swing state, so I just can not go vote for Peroutka, I really want to. But can I in fully good conscience vote for Bush after the answer he gave about roe vs wae. So I really have to site down and think about it, Bush could win PA, but if I don’t vote for him (and others like me, and vote for Peroutka, who probably will not win PA) kerry is bound to win. Right now I have a spreed sheet I am working on. But then the question is, is this the right way to go about it. Right now in my spreed sheet it is still a close race between Peroutka and Bush. What ever happened to the time of White and Black, Republican and Democrat? now all I see are shades of gray and 3rd parties.
Finally the first partion of the hard drive on the gateway finished the bad block scan. It is now on the second of the 3. But they are much smaller when compared to the other one. Right now on the second partion it is on block 194038/262144 if it goes for another 11 days I will be able to claim that it took a full month to scan the hard drive for bad blocks.
Ok here is the final total, I have moved the video file for now but here is the total before the move of the file: 51839.16 Megabytes (Yes that is about 50Gb, I bet my hosting company loves me now) So for the next 2 days I will not have that video up to save bandwidth, that is untill the slashdot affect is over.
Ok if you clicked on the link at slashdot to view the video please Click here, to see the post. I had turned off the Hotlink Protection for the slashdot stuff, but now I have turned it back on again. I don’t think it should affect people much now, since it is almost off the front page of slashdot. If you are here from slashdot and got redirected here, I do apologize.
Ok I got into the office and checked the bandwidth used, and it now reads 14911.41 Megabytes (~14Gb) WOW!!! that is more then I ever though I could server from my web site. Well lets see if I get slasdoted off the net today? Well I am investigating if I can buy a bit more bandwidth after the day is over just in case I use up all my bandwidth today. Well the good thing is, this is probably the only time EVER I will ever ever use this much bandwidth in a month (I am thinking this is more like what I should see over a year)
I just got something submitted to /. that links to a file here from /. So far this morning the bandwidth usage is up at 336 Mb used and the story was posted at 7:30am and here we are about 2 hours and 15 minutes later and the site is up, I don’t think /. causes all the traffic people say, but we will see when the geeks start to wake up and hit /.
I just did a couple of searches on google today, one was to see how many pages are linked to my site, it returned 68. Before it was only returning 33. And I did a search for just my name Michael P. O’Connor and found that it is the first real hit. So if some one searches for my full name, and just hits “I’m feeling luck” they will be sent to my site. SWEET!!! is all I can say. Ok I know it is not important but hay it is nice to be so high on the google list for my own name.
Why did I do this searches? because I just was wondering since the odd referer coming from google, that I would not have though would have gotten me in the top 100 but were still there in the top 20 (and top 10 in one case).
Ok I went into the server logs and looked at where people were coming to my site from. Some were coming in from google, but I would never though my site would show up on some of the searches that are being reported. I followed back to these searches and 2 of them were valid and did have my site listed as one of the hits, here are the searches that got my site.
http://www.google.com/search?q=house+blessing+script&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=fedora+netinstall&sourceid=firefox&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
and there was one that did not have my site listed, and I have no idea why such a search was ever done and how the person ended up at my site but here it is
http://www.google.ca/search?q=the My question is I thought that google did not do searches for “the” “if” “of” or other common words on the Internet? Oh well but it is still nice for the humor value.
Well as posted the other day, where I and 2 of my coworkers dropped over to the Robotics institute to see what they were showing off. I have now converted the video taken there to a quick time movie. To view the video Please click on read more below
W00t it is no about 1/2 way done on the bad block scan (3028872/6801228) I am so happy it just might finish before the end of the month!!! It has been going since Sep 29!! That is one borked hard drive. The drive is toast but I am going to let this finish for the morbid fun of it, and just to be masochistic I am going to install Linux on it. Then stress the hard drive out, to see how hard I can bring the system down.
Well I been Furlough durning this goverment shutdown. I have decided to not waste the time. So I took a Skywarn class and got a skywarn certification. That was on Friday Oct 3rd, so now I am a weather spotter. Then last week I spent studing to upgread my Ham radio License from Technitian to[…]
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Today I weighed myself and came in at 130 pounds. When I started I set a goal of 125 pounds. So only 5 more pounds to go. I am a long way from where I started, I started at 300 pounds on March 31, 2022, it been about 15 months since I started this diet.[…]
With summer coming buy, and me still on my diet, I came up with a snack, I have always enjoyed popsicals, so what I am doing now, is I am taking those water enhancers that say they have 0 calories and use that as the flavor for my popsicals, and I have some popsical makers.[…]
For my friends I did a video to show my friends how I have my apartment setup, because I did some changes to the living room and the bedroom. Here is the video
Posting a new updated before and after picture. First one was taken in 2021, the second picture Just this last weekend.
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