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Citizen X is Back

  A popular web cam site is back online after four or five years.  It is CitizenX.Com.  I was never a big fan because I could not embed the video into my web sites.  Right now I am sending video there because I am FTPing video to my sites and CitizenX can also display that video.
  Yes... right now I am not sending video to CameraWare.  I have said this before...it does not seem to me that people that see my video on CW come to my web site.  I could be wrong.

  Right now, and you know how often I change things, but if you go to:

   ShowMeCAM  you now go to a page that will let you pick:

       ShowMeCAM  -  Java
               or
        ShowMeCAM -  Page Update

   Now I am going to take DreamWeaver and work on the HTML for those three pages.  Do you want me to add a link that has ShowMeCAM and the AnyWebCAM video?  Do you want me to add a link that has ShowMeCAM and you pick a CameraWare video? Or do you want an additional link that gives you all three of the videos on one page?

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Playing with My PRO-2052

  Today I did not get much done.  I was playing around with my Radio Shack PRO-2052 scanner.  I should not spend any time entering QRGs into the scanner.  I can buy a cable and software that makes it very easy to enter the stuff plus I can use the computer to control the scanner.  The cable and software is only about $35.00 for them.  That is a pretty good deal.
  I want to enter in QRGs so when something happens I can just scan the correct bank of QRGs.  If there is a space launch then I can scan that bank.  If the president comes to town I can that bank.

  My ham radio, the Kenwood, holds 200 QRGs.  I will only put ham radio stuff in it.  I do have a Yaesu VX-2 that I can pick everything..hell even shortwave on it.  But I want to a different radio.  The VX-2 puts out very slow power and has no key pad.  You have to program it by computer.

  Oh Russell told me today that the black bird does fly at his head.  He said today it almost hit him a couple of times.

 

"First Blog"

"Hey, Jim . . nice to hear a voice from the old days. I do remember writing about your BBS. Those were some interesting times. I remember getting online at 3 am so I could get through to boards that didn't have a bazillion modems. Times certainly have changed.

I think what you had on your board was close enough to today's blogs that you are right on target calling it the first blog. And you can tell anyone who asks that i said so.

I'm still involved in the online world. I manage the web site for The Courier-Journal in Louisville. ........... I liked the BBS days because hey were so personal .......

Thanks for the tip about the BBS documentary. Hadn't heard about it, but I'll check it out."

Ric Manning

Online Manager - courier-journal.com

525 W. Broadway Louisville KY 40202

502-582-4240  [email protected]

EMail to Ric Manning

Hi Ric,

  I know you don't remember me however you did a telephone interview with me back in

1984.  You wrote a story in "Link-Up" magazine call "The Top Ten Ports of Call."  My

BBS was one of the bulletin boards that you wrote about.
  Well you said about "The Diskless BBS" (i.e. Howard's Notebook) "...One of the menu choices is a

chatty letter from Howard..."

  I have been calling my blog the "World's First Blog" and your comments were what made me think that

maybe I should say that...

  Well no one has asked me anything or even called me on my statement.. BUT one of these days..

Someone is going to say what makes you think you did the first blog and I am going to say.. well

because of Ric Manning's comments in "Link-Up" magazine in 1984.

  What do you think?

  Have you done any thinking or story on what maybe the first blog?

Do you think maybe you found and wrote about the first blog?  Smile

   Glad to see your still around... My BBS was online 24/7 until I moved it to the

WWW.

  Oh... I mentioned you and your article when I was interviewed for "BBS - The Documentary"
: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/

  I am not sure if those comments made the movie or not.  He interviewed 200 people so my

guess is not.  However.. all of the interviews will, one day, be online.  He interviewed me for

over two hours.

  Jim

   

Jim Howard  N0UWY
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www.showmeblog.com

What is it about Flordia?

  Here is a news story that I just found:

local6.com

Police Investigating Whether Boy's Rape Was Taped By Mom

POSTED: 10:40 am EDT April 22, 2005

LAUDERDALE LAKES, Fla. -- Detectives are investigating a 9-year-old boy's allegations that his mother videotaped him being raped by a man, then sold or gave away the tape.

The Broward County Sheriff's Office is looking into a formal complaint that the boy was raped at least five times between July and October, spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright said. Detectives are searching for the tape, she said.

The man, Kevin Jerome Bynes, 27, of Lauderdale Lakes, was arrested Tuesday on five counts of sexual battery on a child under 12. He was being held without bond in the Broward County Jail.

"The victim stated that his mother once witnessed the defendant raping him and also videotaped the incident," Coleman-Wright said Friday.

Bynes' arrest affidavit states that the boy's older sister told detectives that she saw Bynes enter her brother's bedroom and that she believed her brother was being assaulted. He has denied the charges.

Bynes has violated his probation on false imprisonment charges out of Leon County, the sheriff's office said.

The boy's 29-year-old mother has been jailed since Oct. 18 on charges stemming from an aggravated battery charge in an unrelated case. She also is denying the allegations that she videotaped her son being raped.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

The Bird Must Sleep at Night

  I walked over to pick up Coke.  I was talking to Roger on the cell phone during the walk.  The big  black bird did not attack me.  I am not sure if the bird sleeps at night or if he does not like cell phones.
 

  I am getting hits from Google and other search sites and the same things are being hit on as before.
  There has been an increase in images.  I am getting more hits looking for images.
  Here is a big one: (err no pun ment)

 

Ken Got a Pay Increase

Ken got a 30 cents an hour pay increase.  Russell went down the other day and picked up his GED.  Jimmy and Dar are in their new apartment in Fort Worth.  They don't have DSL installed yet.
  I need to go down and get a new rail/bus pass before May 1st.  When I get to be 65 years of age I will not need to renew it each year.
  I am going to have to walk over and get some Coke soon.  I will be under attack from a bird when I do... I did not mind him flying down a few times ..but every time I walk the path is getting too be too much.

Bird Attack

  When I walk over to the mall or back on the path a bird will fly down at my head to scare me away.  I asked Russell if it happen when he walks and he said no.
  It happens 98% of the time when I walk that path.  It is a big black bird.  He must have a nest in the area.  Today his wing brushed my head.  I suspect if he hit me in the face I could get a bad injury.
  I will see if I can get someone to follow me one of these times and get a photo of it.  It will be hard to get the photo.  The bird is fast.

  I ran across this old photo from when I was in Orlando FL.  I am not sure if you have seen it or not.

 

Jim is doing the Mambo

  Yes I am doing the mambo.  Well I guess I can not lie to you and try and make you think that I am dancing and doing the mambo.
  Well there is some software for doing web sites and it is called Mambo.  Well you know me.. Yes.. I have installed it and am working on it right now.  It looks very neat. 
  If you want to keep track of my work and the progress it is at:
  http://hnb1982.com/mambo 

Phishing

I am sure all of you know about this sort of thing.. but I want to post it.  Just in case someone out there is not aware of this.
  I must get about 5 of these sort of things each day.  Sometimes they say they are eBay or PayPal.  Sometimes it will be some bank or credit card company.
  I never fell for this sort of thing.  I hope none of you ever do.