Monthly Archives: April 2008

WordPress 2.5 Plugin Keeps the Version out of Source.

By Kirk M | Published April 29, 2008

For anyone who has upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and above and likes to keep the WordPress version number out of the source code of your site when the source is viewed in a browser you could be in for a surprise. It might be back even though you eliminated the line of code in your [...]

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Love That Local Humor

By Kirk M | Published April 29, 2008

Yup! You just have to love our local humor.
(Source: The Barton Chronicle, Vol. 35, #16, April 23rd, 2008)

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A Dead Head

By Kirk M | Published April 28, 2008

Here I sit
with a broken heart.
Sat down to write
and couldn’t start.
My brain is busted,
my head is dead.
And so I’ll bid you
goodnight instead.

Posted in Misc posts | 4 Comments

Keeping an Eye on Firefox 3 RC1

By Kirk M | Published April 26, 2008

Checking in my stats the last few days I’ve noticed quite a few folks looking for information on the first release candidate of Firefox 3 and possibly when the release date might be. Well, the closest the developers will get on an actual date is “sometime in May” and since the date for the final [...]

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Mozilla squashes Firefox 3 Flash Bug

By Kirk M | Published April 24, 2008

This post is out of date: Please see the updated post on my new tech site–Green Mountain Geek

Adobe’s Flash plugin for Firefox has never offered the kind of quality performance that the equivalent plugin for Internet Explorer has but at least it handled most Flash based video fairly well. However, somewhere around the 14th of [...]

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I Just Gotta Mow!

By Kirk M | Published April 23, 2008

Oh man, I just can’t stand it! With all this unusually gorgeous weather we’re having around here I have this god awful desire to mow the lawn!! I just gotta  mow the damn lawn!!
Okay… alright, I can handle this now. The grass isn’t up yet…it still thinks it’s…well…April fer heavens sake and April in the [...]

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17% of Vermonters Admit Driving Drunk

By Kirk M | Published April 23, 2008

I banged into my local news site today and I immediately zoned in on this headline:
17% of Vermonters Admit Driving Drunk
Washington, D.C. – April 23, 2008
According to a new federal report, nearly one in six motorists in Vermont admit they have driven drunk. The report relies on information from the National Survey on Drug Use [...]

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Flare ups and Posting

By Kirk M | Published April 22, 2008

I woke up a with my insides hanging out a couple morning’s ago and it’s taken me this long to tuck them back in and staple myself shut again. The pain killers have finally taken affect to the point where I can begin posting once more.
Oh, alright, my insides weren’t really hanging out but it [...]

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