Last night around midnight I was listening to 20 meters when I stumbled on LY37LY in Lithuania.  I was using a Kenwood TS-2000 with a GAP Titan DX antenna at 100 watts.  Just for the heck of it, I threw out my call sign knowing he would not hear me and he answered me back.  [...]

Twitter created a FEATURE a couple years ago called Trending Topics intended to help the casual check in to get a quick look at what is going on, TRENDING on Twitter.  This feature seemed to be a promising tool in the beginning but it seems like Twitter has just dropped to ball and did not complete [...]

I think that Google+, Facebook, and Twiter are very nice in their own way.  Sometimes I am really in the mood for Google+ loving the interaction while other days I do not want so much.  Honestly at this stage I do not see heavy Facebook users ever migrating over to Google+ completely just as there [...]

The beloved Skype that we have grown to love seems to be morphing into something like Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger.  I’ll be the first to say that I use to love Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger back in the early days when it was a light weight Instant Messenger.  Over time  it became this [...]

Twitter created a FEATURE a couple years ago called Trending Topics intended to help the casual check in to get a quick look at what is going on, TRENDING on Twitter.  This feature seemed to be a promising tool in the beginning but it seems like Twitter has just dropped to ball and did not [...]

Yesterday we had a family funeral at the I.O.O.F. cemetary in Norman, Oklahoma. After the grave side service, I noticed some people gathering around this tomb stone. I walked over to it and took this picture with my iPhone. This represents someone that died while in Afghanistan protecting our freedoms. It was a very moving [...]

Just wanted to say Happy Birthday to my youngest son Jordan (pictured right). Today he is 19 years old.  We had a good cookout last night with some of his friends.  It was a good time and I gained at least 20 pounds.

I just took this photo of the new Devon Energy Center tower with the crown being built on top.  It should top out in a little less that two weeks.

There are a lot of cool web sites, social networking sites, etc but Posterous is really nice. One of the things that makes it cool is the applications (apps) that are available for phones. In fact I am posting this from my iPhone 4. This may explain any mis-spelled words. anyone that has used an [...]

This morning I turned on the HF radio on 20 meters and was saddened to hear those dreaded words… CQ CONTEST CQ CONTEST CQ CONTEST.  I am not sure why but I have always hated contesting on the radio.  Mainly because you can never have any meaningful conversation.  If you listened to the radio for [...]