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Acorn Gets the Boys Club

taxi — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:30:07 +0000

The vacant A Building of the former Voke school on Lincoln Square, which was formerly the Boys Club, has a new fiance.

Impeccable Timing

taxi — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:30:04 +0000

This is the sidewalk at the end of Foster Street.It’s part of the Big Re-Dig project on Foster Street that began last July.They spent the months leading into autumn re-doing the medians from Commercial Street to Franklin Street, all the way around the back of the dead mall.But they’re not done with that part yet. Meanwhile, in the months leading into the winter, they also started tearing up all

Trash Class

taxi — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:50:13 +0000

It’s not just plastic convenience store bags that litter the landscape.

Convenience Store Names

taxi — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:50:13 +0000

On the corner of Providence and Harrison, there’s the People’s Market.At the corner of Grafton and Mendon, we have the No Name Grocery.I didn’t get a good picture of the store named The Store, though.It’s on Providence Street, next to the pizza place at Dorchester.

Walmart in the Village

taxi — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:50:13 +0000

This is a quick shot of the soon to be opening Walmart, taken from Lochwan Street.I’m not sure, but I think I remember someone saying it’ll be opening in March?…Every time I pick someone up from the Lochwan/Gibbs neighborhood, and we come down this hill, I make a point of asking them if they’re looking forward to the new Walmart opening.A small few have responded by asking, "Where?"Only one

Feb

taxi — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:50:12 +0000

Not my favorite month.The dead of winter.At least it’s short.

A Big Stink

taxi — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:50:09 +0000

The present and looming problems standing in the way of complying with federal and state mandates for sewage treatment are talked about in this article today.The bottom line on all of this is stated in one sentence: "When the Clean Water Act was first passed in 1972, the federal government covered 75 percent of compliance costs, state government covered 15 percent and local communities 10 percent

WooTube 101 Video Contest

taxi — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:10:07 +0000

The Colleges of Worcester Consortium announced this contest back in November, and now it’s February 1st… so the entries have started showing up on YouTube this morning.Although the announcement does say that "all eligible entries will be displayed on the consortium’s YouTube channel during the contest," I don’t see any of them there yet…They’ve started showing up here, here, here, and here,

Monthly Stats

taxi — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:10:04 +0000

It’s been two years and eight months since I started this blog.I didn’t expect that I’d get very many readers at all, so this has been an interesting learning experience for me.January wasn’t the highest hits count so far, though. October of ’08 still stands as highest visits and page views, and September ’08 has slightly more visits than this past month. That, I’m sure, was due to the ’08

Google Chrome

taxi — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:50:06 +0000

Once I gave Google Chrome a chance to fully infect my computer, it’s been running really fast.I have to confess: My time spent drilling down into the inner workings of my own computer has slowly dwindled down to practically zero over the past 22 months since I bought this current setup. (It’s a quad core AMD Phenom 9600 2.3GHz running Vista 64 bit OS.)I mean, I only ran regclean on this thing