Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2006
This morning I ventured up to Belton to the hamfest. It was an early crowd, when I got there at 11:30 people were already packing up their tables and leaving. Some new kit, but mostly old odd gear. I decided a while back I wasn’t going to get a Yaesu ATAS-120 after readng the horror […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2006
I don’t like the effect that “Web 2.0” is having on appearances of websites, namely logos. There’s no shortage of logo competitions out there, trying to take existing, well established logos and reinvent them with a new font, reflections, and a glazed look. The latest that I’ve seen is Cisco — their new logo has […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 3rd, 2006
Beware of the lemur. The Game of Disorientation – I love this game, it’ll totally screw with your head. I wish it went on longer.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2006
After careful consideration, I’ve decided the ham radio community is exactly like the Linux community. Except instead of teenagers, you’re dealing with fairly articulate greybeards. People who take themselves way too seriously, more with strong opinions that can’t *possibly* be proven incorrect, and lots of smackdown to anyone who is unaware or ignorant (usually newbies) […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 25th, 2006
A hard hour of Krav Maga tonight. You know it’s a good class when you’re wreaking of somebody else’s sweat, it hurts your chest to breath, and your throat is bleeding. More please?
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2006
I went to the ham shop (“the candy store”) on Saturday all excited because I was going to buy a Yaesu FT-857D for the truck. Much to my disappointment, they were all sold out as of Friday. I hope to have my grubby hands on a unit this week sometime. I hear the Belton hamfest […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 20th, 2006
The FCC issued my callsign today. I’m KE5KOA.
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 17th, 2006
This has been a geek weekend. I discovered that I have cat 5 ran to all the phone/coax outlets in my apartment and terminated in a distribution block in my closet. This is significant in that it finally solves my age old problem of getting wired internet to the bedroom for high speed file sharing. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2006
Yay! I passed my element 2 and element 3 amateur license tests! This will give me a Technician license whenever the FCC gets around to processing it over the next couple of weeks. When I solve Morse, I’ll be able to get my General license. They let me keep taking tests until I failed, so […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 13th, 2006
The question (to myself) finally arose as to what I’m doing with my old Powerbook and why I don’t have a massive amount of storage in my apartment somewhere. So, last night I went to Fry’s and picked up a pair of 300 GB hard drives and a firewire enclosure. It’s proving a bit impractical, […]
