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Why Junk Mail Could be a Good Thing

I was talking With Miriam last night and I was telling her about the email spammer in England and one here in the US that a bunch of hackers signed up for hundreds and maybe thousands of catalogs, information requests etc. The end result being that they got so much mail through the postal service that they couldn’t find the mail that was legitimate… Sort of a real world mail denial of service attack. Well Miriam thought that was pretty funny and in turn she remembered a story of a guy years ago that burned his junk mail in his wood burning stove in the house. Which suddenly made me think about the implications.
It was like a light bulb going off 🙂 you know junk mail is free…. what if you turned it from an annoyance and liability to a positive benefit.  What if you could just feed your junk mail to a big shredder that spit out little logs of bailed paper at the other end.. kinda like a hay bailer.

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December 19th, 2006 | Category: General | One comment

Any Day on the Water Is a Good Day until you get back to the real world

Today was one of those days where you just needed to get away and get some water time.. I went down to the boat and cleaned a bit and then got Patty and Jeff to go out with me.. we didn’t even go sailing just took the fishing poles and motored up and down the waterway for a few hours fishing. Not a single bite did we get but that wasn’t the point.. I can’t say how relaxing it was to just be out there floating on the water having left all the current crop of problems at the dock.

When we got back I closed the boat up and went to get a bite to eat at a new place in the new sporting complex in Little River. I had previously met two sisters that work there and they had invited me to check it out. I had just sat down to eat a quiet meal with them when one of my current crop of problems called me and then walked in and sat down at the table in the middle of my meal.
I have since september been involved in a business deal with a friend providing IT knowledge to him and building a website and other stuff for him. Never do business with friends!! It can lead to losing them as a friend.

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December 14th, 2006 | Category: Boating, In Command, Logged Days on Boat | Leave a comment

New Radio for Sea Puppy Post 2

I installed the radio and failed to take one  measurement into consideration. 🙁 how deep it is.. I lacked about 1.5 inches to have it flush mount.. lol and I cut the hole out for it already…..

However all is not lost… I installed it there anyway and am going to build a spacer to make it right.. this will bring it out a inch and a half but I can use the space as a storage space for sd cards with music on them and usb memory keys 🙂

Other than this it looks nice and works great.. I installed the splitter for the VHF antenna and the reception is amazing.. I get stations on it that my car only dreams of hearing. I guess having a 3 or 4 db antenna 35 feet in the air helps 🙂 The remote control is nice also. I am going to put a mirror in so that I can change stuff from in the cockpit. The new speakers were relatively easy to install also. I got waterproof speakers that matched the hole pattern of the old speakers.. I had to file the edges of the holes for the cone to get it to fit but not much.. Then new speakers sound great. I still have to hook up the inside speakers. I’m not sure how they will sound.. I might need to replace them also.. but im not to worried about that.. I can use normal car speakers in their own inclosures and just mount them on the bulk head.

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December 10th, 2006 | Category: Boating, F235 Sea Puppy | Leave a comment

New Radio for Sea Puppy

I just got a VRCD400-SDU today at wall mart.. $79.99

New am/fm/cd/mp3/usb key/sd memory card/aux in on face of it car radio
Given all the controversy over the unit I decided to bench test it before installing it in Sea Puppy.

I hooked it up to a 12v power supply I have sitting in my office for just such a need. Hooked up the RCA outs to a computer system mic in connector and then started playing. This actually gave me decent stereo sound through the computer sound system.

FM:
I did not have a radio antenna at hand but the normal 3 or 4 strongest stations came in fine without it.

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December 6th, 2006 | Category: Boating, F235 Sea Puppy | 4 comments