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Looks like theres no morse requirement anymore starting next month for upgraded licenses. In the past learning Morse was lazily keeping me from upgrading my license. Now that I don’t have to worry about it, maybe ill upgrade and pick the hobby back up. ARRLWeb: It’s Official! Morse Code Requirement Ends Friday, February 23 NEWINGTON, CT, Jan 24, 2007 — Circle Friday, February 23, on your calendar. That’s when the current 5 WPM Morse code requirement will officially disappear from the Amateur Radio Service Part 97 rules in accordance with the FCC’s Report and Order (R&O) in the “Morse code proceeding,” WT Docket 05-235. Beginning at 12:00 AM local time on February 23 (ie, after midnight Thursday), applicants for a General or Amateur Extra class Amateur Radio license no longer will have to demonstrate proficiency in Morse code. They’ll just have to pass the applicable written examination. ...

Considering Apple since I’m a Linux nerd.

Got an unlocked Razr V3i.

Upgraded the Movable Type install on the blog..with errors.

Writing X-Spam-Status headers with Spamassassin

My Dell is part of the battery recall! Yay, fresh new battery for me :) Check your Dell here.

Dang thats hot Got to work this morning, server room AC had tripped a breaker! Almost 100 degrees! I’m in the process of building a temperature sensor that alerts my cellphone if that should happen again.

So I bought a Buffalo WHR-G54S wireless router and put Linux on it. I used the firmware from the DD-Wrt project. It’s working great. It’s got soo many super cool features. I’ve got it setup with its own host name from dyndns.org so I can see status from work, whos connected etc. I even can ssh into it. Best of all it runs Linux.

/groan .. what a crappy internet.

Decided it was time for a face lift of the site. (and maybe some more frequent posts) Going simple, using css and div’s instead of 10 tables.