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Eggner’s Ferry: Everybody Was Running Back And Forth
WKDZ did a great job covering the bridge hit and collapse of the Eggner’s Ferry bridge. Of all the coverage they did I want to highlight one interview. It is a classic that will live forever in the genre of country-fried disaster interviews. Â MP3: Robert Parker Interview – (C) WKDZ Radio WKDZ: Did you get…
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Blinking Lights, Blink A Little Slower
The BrakeBlog is running on the Energynet network now. My day off for MLK Jr. Day was a day for considering bandwidth issues related to my websites and moving them to Energynet. My first thought was to mark the current response times as measured through the Google Webmaster tools. Since one of the recurring problems…
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The BrakeBlog is Packing to Move!
I have been a GoDaddy customer since 2003. For the vast majority of that time the service from GoDaddy was acceptable though not excellent. I tolerated many of GoDaddy issues because none justified the time necessary to switch. The most recent example happened in September 2011. The website for Christian Heights began loading very slowly…
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Christmas Parade 2011
Here is a selection of photos from the Christmas Parade in Hopkinsville.
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Crooked People And Their Crooked Thinking
I hope this will be the closest I ever come to professional thievery. Paula Russell from Aaron McNeil House was discovered victimizing the organization she was hired to lead. In the initial report she was charged with stealing only from AMH. The former executive director of the Aaron McNeil House in Hopkinsville is charged with…
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The Old Workhorse Prepared For Retirement
Mom’s current computer is at least ten years old. Back in the day it probably ran Windows 98, then I put Linux on it. Now is the time for it to go to the scrap pile and be replaced by Mom’s New old computer. Dad made a comment that when the HP is setup for…
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The Old Workhorse Meets His Replacement
The old laptop on the left is an HP Pavilion dv4000 and the new one on the right is a Dell Inspiron N5010. The HP has been through the battle and it came out only slightly dinged. A piece of molding on the left side is broke off and there is a wear mark…
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Coming Soon in June
Dual core i5 processor, Intel graphics, should be good hardware for Gentoo to run.