Al Gritzmacher's Blogosphere

A group of Tibetan Monks visited Niagara County Community College recently. Continue Reading…

I just watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV and I give thanks that it’s over. It was just one big commercial. Continue Reading…

Not in an article about podcasts, or local music, but in an article on Blog Spam. Well, as they say, there is no such thing as bad publicity! Continue Reading…

I’ve set up a photo management program called Gallery to organize the photos for all my blogs/webpages from now on. You can visit the new photo page here.

There is a permanent link to it in the sidebar on the right too. I even created a new category called Photos (how imaginative!) to put it in. The other link to the Opera page is still good too, but I am gradually moving what is there to the new page as well.

I’ve been upgrading to Firefox 2 here, one computer at a time. There are some differences, but most of them are minor and really don’t change the feel of the browser.

So I really haven’t thought about the change. But one difference just caught me by surprise: the built-in spell-checker. Continue Reading…

Saw this web thing on another blog and thought I’d try it…

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Apparently, there are 0 of me in the US. Not even one, none. Not what I expected at all! Continue Reading…

I can’t think of the last time I got a phone call that I really wanted. The closer we get to election day, the worse it’s gotten too.

I was thinking about it and how we pay for the (in)conveniance of having a landline. Have you ever tried to cut down on your phone service? I have. And I can honestly say, I have gone away from the experience with a smaller bill, but only because I was paying such outrageous bills in the first place. Continue Reading…