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Tivoless
ByDerekOh please, please, please, Time Warner, follow in the footsteps of Comcast and start offering a Tivo. It’s nothing against your fabulous HD DVR (other than it’s lousy Atari 2600-esque interface, poorly designed remote, and the complete lack of features that make the Tivo great – like the ability to easily record only first run…
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Verizon FTTP coming to me!
ByDerekAwwww yeah! Business First reports that Hamburg and Orchard Park are going to be the first WNY areas that Verizon will be instituting it’s Fiber To The Premises service. Last year they ran what I assumed to be fiber to the pole on the corner of my lot, at which point the lines go underground,…
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2006-2007 Winter Skyway Closings
ByDerekSpeaking of the Skyway… since winter has officially ended, let’s tally up Skyway closings. We had an early unprecedented storm in October that resulted in widespread driving bans, yet no official Skyway closings. We had another late start to winter, but then had a pounding of snow and frigid temperatures. For the second year in…
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Preparing for the onslaught
ByDerekSo far, this week at work has been mostly about this little gem. Microsoft lost a patent lawsuit with Eolas, a company with yet another stupid technology patent for embedding a plugin in a webpage, using something simple and logical like an <embed> tag. Since Microsoft lost this lawsuit, they’re changing IE so that if…
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The Queen Mary
ByDerekSpent the week in sunny California – Anaheim area. One highlight of the trip was getting to visit the Queen Mary. Interestingly, the city of Long Beach owns the Queen Mary, and purchased it for $3.45 million – considerably more than it’s scrap value in 1967. It now leases it out to various entities, where…
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“Blogroll” updated
ByDerekI know it’s kind of customary as a blogger to have a “blogroll”, or a list of links to other blogs. It’s the whole social networking thing. I’ve been thinking for awhile about how I wanted to set mine up, which is why I haven’t been adding links to my section on the right over…
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