Category Archives: Just Thinkin

This Blog is the Dog’s Bollocks!

This blog has received it’s share of (mostly) non-official awards and recognitions, Lord knows why, but never has it received such as a recognition as this…
The “Dog’s Bollocks” award! An Irish flavored recognition if there ever was one and as far as I know…I’m the first. Now that’s special alright.
The award and the subsequent [...] Read more »

Signs of the Times

A few “Signs of the Times” to enjoy on a Sunday afternoon.
 

My mind at work.
 
 
 
Why don’t we have signs like this in Vermont? Oh yeah…we have all these trees that stop the falling cows.
 
 

Teach you to pick your ball out of a natural hazard and toss it [...] Read more »

An Icon of an Age Passes On

George Carlin, the originator of the original Seven Dirty Words (upped to eleven as time went on if I remember correctly), the one comedian that’s followed me throughout the my entire life–is gone.
This is the end of an age indeed.
He broke all the rules and made us laugh while he did it. He showed us [...] Read more »

From the Mail-One for the Irish

I got a set of 4 good Irish jokes in the mail today and I thought the first one was the best and although I’m sure it’s most likely an old one as far as my Irish friends and fellow bloggers are concerned, I thought it was pretty good myself. So with all my respect [...] Read more »

Best Day at Just Thinkin’-June 17th, 2008

So what does it take to achieve the best day ever as far as unique visitors go? How about a single post about a certain popular Firefox extension and another on how to disable extension compatibility in Firefox? Yup that’s it; 1852 visitors with only a 50% bounce rate on Firefox Download-frickin’-Day–1783 visitors on the [...] Read more »

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

This post is out of date: Please see the updated post on my new tech site–Green Mountain Geek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 [...] Read more »

Dead Internet

For those of you waiting for a reply to a comment or perhaps another one of my fine posts, I’m sorry…you’ll just have to wait some more. The reason for this is that for the last 2 days my computer refuses to hook up to any wireless connection put out by our DSL wireless router [...] Read more »

Heading to Bean Town

Tonight, after supper, I’m headed down for an overnight stay at the VA in White River Junction, VT in order to catch the van in the morning for the Jamaica Plains VA in Boston, Ma tomorrow. All for what most likely will be a 20 minute follow up to a procedure I had done over [...] Read more »