Blog O'Stuff

I've been on vacation since last Friday. I'll be going back to work next Tuesday. It's a nice break. Last weekend we went up t...

{Tip of the hat to Mad Ogre.} Springfield Armory is now listing the XD pistol in .45 ACP. Me likey. A friend has one in 9mm that I've ...

Tomorrow is the 70th Anniversary of the first flight of the Douglas DC-3. Seventy years ago, one of aviation's best-known and most-l...

Computers suck. I've spent most of the past two days speed testing a new cable modem/gateway on our lab network. Basically all I'm ...

Today I received my third order from Gigaparts , the Comet GP-3 antenna and 100 feet of coax terminated with PL-259s on both ends. I ordere...

I went and ordered a Comet GP-3 2M/70cm antenna, along with a Cable X-Perts coaxial feed line from Gigaparts. The plan to to mount it on to...

We received our first significant snowfall overnight, about 6" in Plymouth Meeting. (I'll pause while more northerly or western re...

There's no way around it: For best Tx and Rx with my FT-7800R, I'll need to put an antenna on the roof, on at least a short mast. I...

Never forget.

Over on THR someone asked about "A1 Optics" rifle scopes for mounting on a Ruger 10/22. I've never heard of this brand so rep...

I'm posting this from Ubuntu Linux running inside the beta VMWare Player . The Player is more-or-less a stripped-down version of VMWare ...

I got onto the MARC Sunday net, but just barely. Even at 10W output the other members had a hard time hearing me. I could hear them clear ...

The Book of Postfix arrived Thursday and I started reading it on the train Friday. So far, so good. It's well-written and easy to under...

It's hard to believe it's December already. Yesterday we had a birthday party for Alexandra -- she turns three on Tuesday. The part...

It's that time of year when many large employers try to get their employees to donate to charities through the United Way. Aside from s...

My little Yaesu VX-5RS handie talkie radio is nice but I've noticed that because it's QRP (only 5W), lately I'm having problems ...

We had one of our semi-annual scheutzenfests over at my friend Nick's place today. I brought my Marlin Camp .45, Ruger 10/22, CZ-52, an...

The Big Brown Truck arrived this afternoon and dropped off my R1A1 back from Century, along with the 500 rounds of 9mm that I ordered on Sat...

I just ordered a copy of The Book of Postfix: State-of-the-Art Message Transport from Amazon. In my search for a relatively easy way to im...

Last night while looking for something else, I ran across the WebMail extension for Mozilla Thunderbird. It allows you to fetch mail from ...