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Dear Julia, We Never Knew

By Kirk M | Published August 14, 2008

There’s not much that happens these days that actually makes me waggle my hairy eyebrows but yesterday’s news about Julia Child made me not only waggle them, I actually read two full articles and today, the just released CIA report about her work in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII; the forerunner [...]

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Defensio Died, Akismet’s Back and Other Fun

By Kirk M | Published February 10, 2008

It’s about time for another update on the happenings around here. So without further ado…
Defensio, the other anti-spam service and competitor to Akismet, apparently corrupted it’s own database table today which effectively rendered my admin useless and just about locked up my site while it was at it. I got my first clue this morning [...]

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Windows Live OneCare 2 beta. A (personal) First Impression

By Kirk M | Published July 29, 2007

When Microsoft first came out with Windows Live OneCare version 1 and being the old beta tester that I am, I decided to give it a (very) short trial period by creating a restore point on my computer at the time and giving OneCare a week’s worth of thrashing. It only lasted three days but [...]

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IE 7.0 final sneaked out

By Kirk M | Published October 21, 2006

The IE 7.0 team at Microsoft put the final version of IE 7.0 on the streets before most people realized it (the sneaks). Announced earlier that the final would be available via MS’s Automatic Updates, a “sneak up behind you and tap you on the shoulder” early release was offered as a download from MS’s [...]

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Bits and Bytes

By Kirk M | Published October 12, 2006

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: [...]

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Things are getting too small.

By Kirk M | Published September 11, 2006

My lady accidentally dropped her faithful old digital camera the other day breaking off the battery cover. Now this was easily fixed with a little tape and ingenuity but It got me to thinking.
She bought this “point and shoot” style digital camera (Kodak) back in 2000 and paid somewhere between two and three hundred dollars [...]

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Switching to Mac? (I don’t know about that)

By Kirk M | Published August 14, 2006

The more I read the (tech) news these days, the more I hear about the Microsoft’s latest doing’s and the less I like what I’m reading.
I have been an MS user from the PC’s “BW” era (Before Windows). I did have my choice at one time though. My Sound [...]

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The wonderful world of extensions

By Kirk M | Published July 7, 2006

orWhat does this button do again?

I read some where in my virtual travels that there was a Firefox “power” user out there somewhere that actually had 52 different extensions loaded into his FF browser and another that went for the record of 100+. The thing that really piques my interest though is that this [...]

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