Anyone for a Mint?

OK, I just stumbled on to this website that I am DEFINITELY going to check out. Its an online financial budget tool called Mint.com that automatically pulls your online account data. The problem I have always had with these kinds of tools is that you have to manually sit down and enter all of this stuff! Well Mint.com securely, and automatically pulls the data from your online accounts, then analyzes your spending habits.

Another thing about manually entering the data is that its too easy to fudge the data to fool yourself. Since this pulls real data of real transactions, you can't fake yourself out.

so I am definitely giving this a try!

-- Mike

How to Secure a Wireless Network

Recently I had a friend of mine found out that someone was using their wireless network without his permission. He asked me how to make his wireless network more secure.

Here is what I did to make his wireless network more secure. That took care of his network intruder, and my friend is feeling better that his wireless network is more secure now.

-- Mike

Adruino anyone?

Yeah, check it out!

Dealing with spam

Ah yes, the ever present problem of spam. everyone hates it, yet a large part of our email habits ust cause to get even more spam, It can be a vicious circle. Here is an article on how you can reduce or even stop getting spam.

-- Mike

Satellite communication and ham radio

Something that interests me is satellite communication. I have spent many exciting hours "working the birds" as they say. It's really not that difficult at all! If you have an HT, and a portable antenna, you can get started. Here is a page about how to do that. Its a bit old, but the basic info is still relevant. In it, I talk about my first satellite qso. Needless to say, I was hooked!

-- Mike

Hello!

My name is Mike, and I am just getting started here. One of my many interests is Ham radio, and I hope to post some things about that here. Feel free to check out my other blog here.

One interest I have is space communications, and amateur satellite work. I actually spoke to Susan Helms on board the international space station! The audio is on my ham radio site, here.

OK stay tuned, more to come!

73 -- Mike