To anticipate and prevent
As I have previously noted, on last Friday I passed the test for Amateur Radio Technician level. Ever since then I’ve been eagerly awaiting my new callsign. The Volunteer Examiners said it would take about a week to a week and a half, but that didn’t stop me from logging into the FCC every 6…
# of Apps removed from App Store by [AppShopper.com](http://appshopper.com/blog/2010/02/22/graph-of-apps-removed-from-app-store/) In case you haven’t heard, Apple recently decided to ban most “sexy” applications from the iTunes app store, nearly 6,000 in total. In brief, they removed anything that had any implied sexuality up to anything showing skin at all. CNN Money put forth the theory that…
A long time ago, when I was but a wee little chibi, still in middle school, I was interested in Ham Radio. I checked out the book to study, even when to a local convention type thing (well I convinced my father to take me, then proceeded to key up the radios that were out…
“Gasp!” you say to yourself, “He is so anti-social now that even the concept of people makes him ill”. Ok, well, maybe not exactly. I’m sick sick, as in I have a cold. It annoys me to no great end. The problem isn’t the sniffling or the coughing or anything like that, those symptoms might…
Happy Presidents Day everyone! As today is a Federal holiday, we strongly believe in everyone taking the day off! All holidays should be like the 4th of July, ya know, where everyone has taken the day off and goes and does something nice and relaxing (like crowding onto a beach in Tahoe to watch fireworks)….
Last night I was playing Star Trek Online for the first time in a few days. I played a good couple of hours before the game took a dump on me. After they got over the initial hurdles of the launch, the game has been relatively smooth to play so I’ve been happy. Plus the…
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