Posted by Kirk M on 22 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: The News
So what else is their to do on a relaxing Sunday afternoon but peruse through the news? And what else is there to do but put up a another post about certain stories over the past week that hit a nerve.
To wit…
>>So Bush doesn’t like Vermont?
Well, it seems to me he has good [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 14 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Just Foolin, The News
Go ahead, tell me they didn’t, I won’t believe you. Who knows the whys and wherefores of the all powerful Google (of OZ) but this little snafu of throwing a Google Checkout party right in the middle of Ebay’s annual convention is so against the grain of Google’s usually smart business sense that I smell [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 06 May 2007 | Tagged as: The News
I don’t usually just post a news source without including my own thoughts on the piece as well but this time everyone needs to read this and I really couldn’t add anything that would matter. I’m also going to reprint the entire article here just in case the original becomes archived somewhere other than the [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 06 May 2007 | Tagged as: The News
The residents of a small town in Kansas that goes by the name of Greensburg were picking through what was left of their town yesterday after a massive tornado came through the previous evening, taking most of the town with it.
95 percent destroyed
Greensburg, a town of 1,500 best known as the home of the world’s [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 28 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Life at home, The News
Brain Drain in Vermont
In a recent article in Vermont’s local WCAX News website, much was made about a report that stated the fact that the majority of Vermont’s young people are leaving the state after college or a year or two after their graduation and half of those are leaving due to the the lack [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 25 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: BackWoods tech, Firefox/Thunderbird, The News
Just some news shorts here from yours truly. This time we’ll look at Peformancing’s newly re-re-incarnated Pmetrics statistics engine, a new blog in town called Amaldo and lastly, a Firefox 3 Planned Features post and comments thereof.
Okay…heeerrrreee we go….
Pmetrics: The new “bored and stroked” dedicated server is in place and the statistics service came back [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 10 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: The News
I found the hulabaloo about Ryan Jordan’s “Essjay” portraying himself as a “tenured professor of theology” funny as all get out. Amusing to say the least it was, especially when that unbelievable, so-called “right thinking” Conservapedia began continuously slamming Wikipedia as being anti-Christian and anti-American. Considering that Wikipedia is a global effort, I find Conservapedia’s [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 23 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Environment, The News
Look what happens when a New York Representative (Jose Serrano, Dem) receives $15 million in federal money to clean up the river. Built a beaver lodge and everything. And in the Bronx River?
This North American beaver was spotted Feb. 21, 2007, in the Bronx River, a once-filthy estuary that flows through New York City. It’s [...] Read more »
