Monthly Archives: March 2006

Tis the evening 2…

By Kirk M | Published March 29, 2006

And not much really going on up here at the top of Vermont besides a week of temps in the 50’s which will be just what we’ve needed after a couple weeks of raw 30’s. I hear White River Junction down in Central Vermont might actually hit 70 on Friday. January thaw in March? Ya’ [...]

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Veritable egganox

By Kirk M | Published March 23, 2006

Yes folks, it’s that time of year again. The time we’ve all been waiting for up here in Stovepipe City at the top of the Northeast Kingdom The Vernal Equinox when sunrise’s are directly in the east, sunset’s are directly in the west and the sun dances on the equator on it’s return trip to [...]

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San Francisco 100 years ago (almost)

By Kirk M | Published March 20, 2006

The financial district after the quake
Just a short post here…
I got an e-mail from my lady with a link to The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco which led me to a fascinating excerpt by Gladys Hansen who is currently the curator of the Museum of the City of San Francisco. The excerpt [...]

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More bang to the big bang

By Kirk M | Published March 17, 2006

Just a quick post this morning before I head to work. I was reading Google news and clued in on an article pertaining to an update to the Big Bang theory which apparently solidifies said theory by quite a bit. What really caught my eye was the graphical representation of the data received by the [...]

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Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) beta 1 released??

By Kirk M | Published March 4, 2006

Posted in my old “BackWoods Tech” blog now defunct.
Well… not quite, but almost. Read the quote below from the Mozilla Developer news site:
Code freeze

Due to the number of outstanding blocking bugs targeted at beta 1, and the delay in getting a L10N functional NSIS installer working, the Beta 1 milestone will be slipping a little [...]

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