Monthly Archives: June 2006

Weekend chores

By Kirk M | Published June 25, 2006

Or…how not to water one’s foot
Ah, ’tis the weekend and with the weekend comes the usual weekly chores and today I learned how to successfully water a small flower garden without watering myself or the occasional passerby which tends to annoy them to no end.
oops, supper’s ready…please stand by.
Alright, I’m back. Let’s [...]

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Rain, quilts and plants yo-ho

By Kirk M | Published June 12, 2006

Seems like the only time I get to post anything these days is during the weekend and that’s usually only one day and one post per blog but that’s ok since I’m only doing this because I can and I enjoy it, not to make deadlines or money for that matter. Just for fun. And [...]

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Politicians courting Bloggers

By Kirk M | Published June 11, 2006

 
Exploring new territory
So much to blog and so little time…sigh…
Blogging, although not necessarily something that has “been around for quite awhile”, has been around at least 6 or so years now which is just about the right time for the first real beginning of the naturally impending evolution of something new. As long as something [...]

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Sun came out

By Kirk M | Published June 5, 2006

The sun came out for a short time today which was very appreciated since  it’s been continually  raining here (yet again) for the last week or so.  The foliage is loving it though. I really don’t think I’ve ever seen the greenery so thick and heavy in all my life and it becomes a mad [...]

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Windows One Care Live

By Kirk M | Published June 4, 2006

I came across an article this morning on the Mercury News website about the new so called “automatic” internet security suites coming out such MS’s One Care Live service and Symantec’s future Norton 360 etc etc. I like the analogy the author uses at the beginning of the article:

You’d sign up with World’s Worst Burglar [...]

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Strange bedfellows and general complaints

By Kirk M | Published June 3, 2006

Everyone seems to want to crawl into bed with every one else these last several weeks. I haven’t had this much fun since I rode the crest of the wave of the budding PC and (then) WWW.
First it was BootCamp: Windows on a MAC?
Then (in no specific order):
Google going on an MS style buying spree [...]

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