11.27.06

Tibetan Monks visit NCCC

Posted in Raves at 12:56 pm

sand mandalaA group of Tibetan Monks visited Niagara County Community College recently. Read the rest of this entry »

11.23.06

Parade of Product Placement

Posted in Rants at 1:38 pm

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. Read the rest of this entry »

11.21.06

Wnypodcast.com gets mention in Buffalo News

Posted in Raves, Tech Stuff, Website at 6:28 pm

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! Read the rest of this entry »

11.09.06

New place for my photos

Posted in Tech Stuff, Website at 2:22 pm

Altro Park cannonI’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.

11.07.06

Firefox 2

Posted in Raves, Tech Stuff at 9:54 am

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. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t exist!

Posted in Family, Rants, Tech Stuff at 9:32 am

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


HowManyOfMe.com
LogoThere 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! Read the rest of this entry »

11.06.06

Telephone blues

Posted in Rants, Tech Stuff at 2:39 pm

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. Read the rest of this entry »