Al's Blog-o-Sphere

Just a quick note that I have updated the WordPress blog software that runs this site to the latest version.

You shouldn’t see much of a difference, if any. It went well, for once. Continue Reading…

Once again we’re two weeks away from the first Thursday at the Square event and Buffalo Place is just getting around to letting us know who will be there. I don’t know why it’s such a big secret. I’d think that the sooner it was promoted, the better for everyone.

I’m not saying we need to know who is playing in August right now, but the first show is May 29. That’s just 14 days away. I already know who will be playing in all the bars around the square afterwards, but don’t know who will be there. Continue Reading…

[Photo above from a earlier rally, not today!]

I was driving on Transit Road in Amherst today and saw a sign that just caught my eye. There was a website URL on it that read “7newsunfair.com” and I wondered what it meant. I went by it so quickly that I didn’t see what the sign was referring to or if there were any people around with it. Traffic was busy enough that I just couldn’t rubberneck any more, so I remembered it for later.

So I checked it out and found a story you won’t see on Eyewitness News. Continue Reading…

I’ve done it. Again. Against my Luddite inclinations, I’ve joined yet another of the latest-greatest web social networking services. Twitter.

After hearing about it over and over and over and over, ad-nauseum, from every talking head on the TWIT network (This Week In Tech, no connection to Twitter) I was curious about Twitter.

My friend, Scott Leffler does a call-in radio show and recently started taking comments via IM, AIM, MSN, ICQ, etc. I was going to suggest Twitter to him, not as a substitute to those, but well, it sounded like something he’d find useful, but before I could, he announced that he had joined Twitter on his website. Continue Reading…