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Ever have one of those days (weeks?) when you see interesting blog entries, that you really want ot read, and are (gasp) even work related, but you just don’t have the energy to read them? That’s been me lately – Jeff Flowers blog has what looks to be an interesting video entry this AM, but […]
Continue reading Blog overloadQueens Crap
For those of you who don’t know, I live in the Borough of Queens in New York City. To say that many sections of Queens are going downhill is an understatement. Nice single family homes being replace with Multi Family homes – many illegally Here is a blog that covers it: http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/
Continue reading Queens CrapWAS and New Mexico
Well, one of my big goals for FD didn’t happen AGAIN this year. The ONLY state I have NOT worked – EVER, is New Mexico. I often hear stations working New Mexico, but I’ve NEVER even heard a station out of New Mexico The only other state I don’t have confirmed is CT – Mostly […]
Continue reading WAS and New MexicoContesting and CW
This year, during FD, I tried contesting a bit on CW. Now I’ll admit my CW stinks. I’m slow, and VERY rusty, so I was using CWGet to back me up, which basiclly means I only got to work strong stations. I liked it – I liked it a LOT. The QSOs went a LOT […]
Continue reading Contesting and CWField Day
This year, Field day has not been so much fun. I’ve got some health issues, so I’m running class 1D with my lousy antennas. On top of that, I went to bed early. I figure my health is a heck of a lot more important than Field Day. I probably should be on the air […]
Continue reading Field DayBloomberg Changes Party Registration – Again
Mayor Blooming Idiot of NYC “left the Republican Party” yesterday. What I want to know is, when did he ever join the Republican Party. Yes, I know he changed his party registration to Republican, and was elected Mayor twice on the Republican Party line, but he was never a Republican. Let’s look at a bit […]
Continue reading Bloomberg Changes Party Registration – AgainMerged Post III
Friday, June 1, 2007IS Code our enemy? (Computers – not Morse) This Morning, Jeff Atwood over at “Coding Horror” wrote an article The Best Code is No Code Commenting on Code is our enemy over at Skrentablog I happen to think BOTH posters are right and wrong. I’ll agree with Jeff that Brevity is extremely […]
Continue reading Merged Post IIIMerged Post II
Thursday, May 24, 2007 Batteries I was reading a blog the other day where the blogger mentioned a friend who had batteries that were going dead in a fairly low power device – but critical use, and when they went to switch batteries, the spares were dead too. This is a common problem. In many […]
Continue reading Merged Post IIMerged Post 1
Programmer Productivity Jeff Atwood over at Coding Horror has a great post on the relative speed of various CPUs when doing common programming tasks at . I wish I could get my bosses to understand this. I work on an old 530 Mhz single core PC, with 1 gig of Memory, and that’s because I […]
Continue reading Merged Post 1I think I’m going to wrap the two blogs together
I really think I’m going to wrap the 2 blogs togther – no sense keeping them apart
Continue reading I think I’m going to wrap the two blogs together