Monthly Archives: August 2009

Reviving the Dead | Part III

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Kirk M

There was a delay in getting part III of this mind numbing series out due to certain unforeseen circumstances which I’m not going to tell you about. Some things just shouldn’t be mentioned online. Sounds good doesn’t it? Due to … Continue reading →

Posted in BackWoods tech, Life at home | Tagged | 3 Comments

Reviving the Dead | Part II

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Kirk M

In our last episode, the hero, (meaning me) after being dived bombed by a previously unknown alien life form that had been dwelling within the unclean recesses of a dead PC, had just lowered his cardboard shield and fishing net … Continue reading →

Posted in BackWoods tech, Life at home | Tagged | 2 Comments

Reviving the Dead | Part I

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Kirk M

If you happen to recall, my wife’s trusty old custom built PC had a stroke the other day and never recovered. Or to be more specific, the original 6 year old load of XP Pro, in spite of regular daily … Continue reading →

Posted in BackWoods tech, Life at home | Tagged | Leave a comment

Importing a blog into Facebook once again.

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Kirk M

The powers that be at Facebook have once again taken a very easy procedure that was very fairly easy to find and turned it into a very easy procedure that can now only found by accident. Facebook, with all due … Continue reading →

Posted in Social stuff | Tagged | 9 Comments

Trying to revive the dead

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Kirk M

There’s been a death in the household in the form of my wife’s venerable old desktop. She built it herself back in 2003 while earning her degree inComputer Systems Management (hers was the only one that booted up on the … Continue reading →

Posted in BackWoods tech, Life at home | Tagged , | Leave a comment

DoS attack yesterday aimed at one single blogger-Chaos Reigns

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Kirk M

All this social chaos that occurred yesterday because of a massive cyber-attack against one solitary blogger. A "massively co-ordinated" attack on websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter was directed at one individual, it has been confirmed. BBC NEWS | Technology … Continue reading →

Posted in Just Thinkin, The News, Times a changing | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Attack of the low blood sugar

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Kirk M

As most of my regular readers already know (all 3 or 4 of them), I’m not exactly what you might call a big guy. I’m more like that guy that has to run around in the shower to get wet. … Continue reading →

Posted in Life as a veteran, Life at home | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

The day the Social stood still

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Kirk M

I’m not going to say that this day will ever live in infamy (it won’t) but much to the social set’s dismay, all of Twitter and rather large parts of Facebook went down this morning reportedly from DoS attacks. Now … Continue reading →

Posted in Just Thinkin, Times a changing | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments