Posted by Kirk M on 07 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Info
Just in case anyone was subscribed to my blogs RSS feeds and expecting a FeedBurner type result in their reader and found the generic excerpt type feeds you can get from anywhere, I had inadvertently missed reactivating a FeedBurner re-direct plugin after an upgrade. One that allowed all my feeds to be redirected through FeedBurner. [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 22 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Info, Interesting Stuff, The News
David Krug of Performancing has recently launched a new, media type news site that covers breaking media news and blogging called 901am. Dave has a lot of history behind him in doing just this kind of publishing which you can read about on the About page of the site. This is the kind of thing [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 22 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: The Mail
Another excerpt from an email forwarded to me from my lady. I actually found a few of these I didn’t know. Enjoy and impress your friends with your knowledge. And after you’re done you can peruse this rather huge list of yet more little known facts.
In the 1400’s a law was set forth in [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 31 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: The News
From the Good News Network
Hmmm, Somehow I just don't think it would work in the Old US of A. We do love our junk food. Still, it's an interesting idea and just might work in isolated areas and townships.
Anyway, check it out and the Good News Network itself. It actually pulls off being a [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 25 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Info
In anticipation of the coming new year and for those of us that save our old calendars, here is a list of perpetual calendar year equivalents for 2007. For those of you who may not know, any calendar of the years listed below can be used for 2007. The days vs dates are the same.
My [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 12 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: BackWoods tech
Just some short observations after reading this weeks PC/software news.
On patch Tuesday: Record number of patches for XP. Over 2 dozen I believe split between the various parts of the Windows OS and MS office 2002 and XP and 1 for .net framework. The Windows bashers are having a heyday this week however…
Think about this: [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 04 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Long Meadow Farms Quilts
Wouldn’t ya’ know.
Just at the start of the holiday season, our local ISP that hosts Laurie’s website, www.longmeadowfarms.com, suffered fire, smoke and water damage when the building next door burnt to the ground taking the server with her website along with it.
They have since replaced all their hosted websites with a default “This site is [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 27 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: BackWoods tech
Like many others, I’ve been closely following Anousheh Ansari’s blog that she has been writing starting with her training as an astronaut, her journey to the ISS and now during her nine day stay at the station where she is conducting testis and doing routine maintenace and operations. Not exactly living up to the definition [...] Read more »
