I have written about Windows Live before but I keep mentioning it because it has some of the coolest toys on the Internet these days.  It is interesting that many people discount Windows Live without even trying them simply because they are from Microsoft when they have no idea what they are missing.  It has [...]

Last week I purchased a new toy that I find very useful.  My cousin Larry, KD5MAF bought a MagicJack about a year ago and kept telling me about how useful it is and though I believed him I did not see the need for buying one myself.  That was before this weekend when I bought [...]

Wow! This weekend I was watching This Week in Tech (TWiT) online and they were talking about a communications program called ooVoo and I had never heard of it. As usual, I had to find out about this program. To be honest I was not expecting much as there are so many programs like this [...]

I had another business trip to San Antonio this week so I have been busy down here.  I finished up early so I will be heading home tomorrow.  We just returned from the Riverwalk area downtown.  I took nearly 300 pictures while being here.  It was a bit warm waiting for the buses so I [...]

Today is a special day for amateur radio operators.  You may have heard them referred to as ham radio operators.  I have been a licensed ham radio operator since I was 17 years old in 1983.  Today being the last Saturday of the month of June makes this a day that many hams look forward [...]

In a funny attempt to get seen on Techmeme, Michael Arrington posted a one word blog post on Techcrunch last night and it has spread across the Internet.  That one word post was… “Twitter!” This post was though meant to be a joke, actually made it on Techmeme, along with about every other tech hobbyist’s [...]

In the last week I purchased a CUPhone RJ11 to USB Phone Adaptor-Combo so that I can use my cordless telephone on Skype, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, etc.  This device only cost $49.95 and allows me to connect my regular house phone, and any computer voice over IP (VoIP) program.  I can three way [...]

This evening as the sun was going down, I was driving West on N.E. 8th Street when I came up to Stiles Park near downtown Oklahoma City.  I pulled over and took this picture with the church steeple in the middle of the sunset.  This view is very deceiving since the temperature was 26 degrees [...]

I just wanted to post to say Happy New Year to everyone.  It is hard to believe it is 2008 and that time is going so fast.  We had a quiet New Year’s eve last night and it was peaceful.  Today, Kevin and I went to the backyard and installed the new anchor rods that [...]

This weekend we had a very productive day getting our repeater running on 145.25.  We finally got the good repeater back from repair and it is working great.  The only problem is that our Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) node stopped working.  Every time the push to talk (PTT) wire would be hooked up, it [...]