Monthly Archives: May 2009

Spammers welcome me home

By Kirk M | Published May 30, 2009

Once upon a time there was the Internet. Then came the World Wide Web (WWW). And later there were blogs and with the blogs came the comment spam. And at first the comment spam was written by human spam generators usually writing in some sort of faked broken English that made you think the comment [...]

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Devils among the children

By Kirk M | Published May 29, 2009

I was considering writing up a post on how quickly things in the world can change if you’re not there to observe them. Not that your presence would have any effect at all as to how these events came about or turned out but it’s the lack of being there that makes the difference. From [...]

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Back from surgery alive—I think

By Kirk M | Published May 20, 2009

I’m Back! After 11 total days in Boston, 9 days in post-op and 4 days recovery at home before I felt able to sit at my computer for any length of time, I’m back. Now just ask me if I’m glad to be home. Go ahead…ask me.
There is. of course, quite a lot to write [...]

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Surgery | The Game’s Afoot

By Kirk M | Published May 2, 2009

The word has been given. Surgery will take place on Wednesday, May 6th. Yes, that’s this coming Wednesday and no other. My lovely lady will be hauling my sure to be comatose self to my “local” VA at the wee hour of 4:30 Monday morning so I can catch the 7:00 AM VA shuttle to [...]

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