Kirk M on March 21st, 2007

It’s sunny, it’s bright and it’s Spring. It’s also 2 degrees above zero and there’s still a ton of snow on the ground but it’s still Spring. The clincher to the whole thing is that by tomorrow temps should be up in the fifty’s and that’s just fine by me.
Our official egg standing ceremony got [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on March 20th, 2007

It’s officially Spring folks and with the coming of Spring comes the Vernal equinox and the time of the Standing Of The Egg.
If you didn’t know about this little miracle that comes but once a year (at 8:07 pm EDT this year–see quote below), for a small period of time (I don’t remember exactly [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on March 19th, 2007

Another one from the mail bag.
With many years of service in my background I can assure you that this kind of person is very real indeed although who this person is may surprise you.
No peeking ahead now.
A LETTER FROM A FARM KID
The following letter, written by a ‘farm kid’ who [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on March 19th, 2007

So why were my FeedBurner site stats showing zero this morning? And why were all the keywords missing in my Whois description? Did I perhaps miss something here?
Yup!
I had missed throwing my meta keywords hack back into the header and installing the tracking script into my posts templates for the FeedBurner site stats. Quickly fixed [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on March 18th, 2007

My, that was easier than expected. I finished up everything including installing all the theme hacks and purging a couple of database tables that were gathering statistics over a half hour ago. The new update to my theme, Misty Look 3.2, seems to be better behaved then the previous version and I appreciate the small [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on March 18th, 2007

Just a quick post here.
What else is there to do on a Sunday afternoon but update your theme to the newest version which means I’ll have to insert my own header once again, hack one or more theme files in order to accommodate this, that or the other plugin or preference and hunt down any [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on March 18th, 2007

A new idea in cultivating to produce raw organic material for the production of biodiesel as is currently being tried using crops like soybeans and corn is now being demonstrated. The benefits of using algae are obvious as indicated by this excerpt form a news story from the Good News Network.
By cultivating algae as the [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on March 17th, 2007

The first time I saw this I actually had to watch it three times just to make sure it wasn’t real. As a lover of music and spending many years in the field (before I lost my hearing), I absolutely fell in love with this. It’s been out for quite awhile now, in fact this [...] Read more »

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