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• Words to Live By: A collection of political, philosophical and religious writings
• A Rant of My Own: A semi-regular stream-of-consciousness soap-box where you can spout off on the injustices of the world
• Photography and Music: A collection of photographs that I have taken (some good, some bad) and music that I have done (some good, some bad)
• Cool Links to Browse: A collection of links that I find useful, informative or fun

A Rant of My Own is a poorly written attempt on my part to voice my thoughts regarding issues present in the media. Or, I might just use it to whine about something that's bothering me. The reader can feel free to argue, debate or simply dismiss my views as sheer idiocy. If you would like to debate, you can email me and I will be happy to discuss any views that you would like to put forward. Who knows, if your arguments are compelling enough, I might just post your rebuttal as well!
Enjoy.

This is a semi-regular stream-of-consciousness soap-box where you can spout off on the injustices of the world; ‚A Rant of My Own‛ was started by Matt Yotko and is being continued by John Yotko. Email with your thoughts.

Comments are always appreciated, as we’ll post and respond to anything you dish out.

This occasional unsyndicated opinion column, A Rant of My Own, fails to appear in more than 250 papers nationwide.

Photography and music have been two of my passions from an early age. Actually electronics was probably my first passion when my fascination with the glowing tubes inside my parents RCA record player grabbed my attention. At the tender age of four I would lie underneath the record player watching the tubes glow as records played through a large ventilation hole cut in the bottom. I remember reaching up inside the record player to remove one of the tubes. My mother did not find that in the least funny. A few years later I wanted to make my 8-track player and radio louder and hoped that distant radio stations would come in better. I attempted this by installing first bigger speakers - after that didn't work I tried a larger transformer. It was louder for about a jiffy. This was when I discovered that all things electronic run on smoke. All of the smoke leaked out as did a few flames accompanied by a 12 gauge shotgun like sound. I probably picked up a few PCBs from the capacitors during that adventure. It was then that I decided that maybe I should start reading about electronics. I got some small pamphlet like books from Cardamone Electric - our local Radio-Shack distributor (where I later got my first job) - and began building tuned length antennae for my new 8-track stereo and radio. I would switch the antenna depending upon which radio station I wanted to listen to.

I grew up in a town so far away from civilization that radio waves wouldn't even go there. We did have WKZA a small AM station that had news, old music and talk daily, and the American Top 40 once a week. I could also get WRRN in Warren but they only played the likes of Barry Manilow and Englebert Humperdink.

But I digress...

As I was saying photography and music have been two of my passions from an early age. Follow the links to the left to venture into my works of photography and music.

Just a bundle of links that I like, some web sites that I have done some of the background programming or design work on and other links.