Monthly Archives: May 2008

One Nasty Week

By Kirk M | Published May 31, 2008

Man, I feel bloody awful!

Isn’t that a great way to start a post?

Unfortunately it’s true enough. I had a massive flare up of that service related problem in my gut last week (GERD and the effects thereof) and it’s taken this long not to get any better. It can quit it any time now I [...]

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Open Studio Weekend. Last Event at the Old Shop.

By Kirk M | Published May 24, 2008

It’s Memorial Day Weekend here in Vermont and that means it’s also the weekend of the annual Vermont Open Studio Weekend where artisans and crafters have the opportunity to show off their various genuine “Made in Vermont” arts and crafts to the tourists and put on demonstrations. Tourists and locals alike with map in hand [...]

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Firefox 3 RC1 High CPU and Memory Use? Try This Fix.

By Kirk M | Published May 22, 2008

This post is out of date: Please see the updated post on my new tech site–Green Mountain Geek
In testing out Firefox 3 RC1 I realized that when loading up a page in a foreground tab when two or more tabs were present, my single core CPU maxed out and loading slowed to a crawl making [...]

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Moving Long Meadow Farms Quilt Shop

By Kirk M | Published May 21, 2008

You all will have to excuse me from publishing any in-depth type posts here for the next week or so as my honey and I are in the midst of moving her quilt shop to a better location and from now until the end of May is going to be a killer for us. We’re [...]

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Watch Me Try and Shoot My Foot

By Kirk M | Published May 20, 2008

And to think I used to live there. Oh wait…that’s typical of that area—I forgot.
NEW BEDFORD – A firearms instructor for the Bristol County Sheriff’s department has been given other duties after his gun accidentally discharged while he was teaching a class on weapons safety.
Officials say the Glock handgun went off while Maj. [...]

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Pat Who for President?

By Kirk M | Published May 19, 2008

Okay Folks I’ve finally made my decision. My Presidential candidate of choice is Pat Paulson. Yessir, I had a flashback to my younger years when good ol’ Pat ran for President and cried when he didn’t win and Mister, that’s honesty in politics if I ever saw it.
Now it’s not that the present day candidates [...]

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Just a Bit of Down Time

By Kirk M | Published May 16, 2008

My host decided they needed to upgrade the server kernel on my box today so there was about an hour of downtime earlier this evening. I don’t necessarily mind these upgrades that they do once in awhile, glad they’re on top of things and all that but I do have a bit of a problem [...]

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Not Smart Enough to Vote for Obama?

By Kirk M | Published May 14, 2008

Hillary Clinton won W. Virginia in what Adam Nagourney of the New York Times calls an electoral shellacking. Well, good for her, it’s about time. However, Barack Obama’s advisors are waving her win aside blatantly hinting at the fact the state is filled with white, uneducated(?!!?) people.
To wit:
Mr. Obama’s advisers downplayed the West Virginia loss, [...]

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