June 11th marked the 10th anniversary of Punaro.com. In actuality, this site has existed since my freshman year at RIT in 1995. The web was brand new at that point, and my roommate geeks and I were competing to see who could have the coolest website. It was a smorgasbord of repeating [...]

Mozilla Labs recently released Personas – an extension which allows you to very quickly reskin your Firefox browser. You can create your own personas and upload them to their Gallery for everyone to download.
It sounded simple enough to do, so I went looking through my photos to see what I have that might work [...]

Yes, it’s true. According to Autoblog…
In the near future, Ford vehicles may fire back a retort if you get cheesed off enough to yell at the car. According to the details of a patent filing, Ford is working on an Emotive Advisory System (EAS) that simulates emotions when interacting with occupants, and may also [...]

Earlier this week I attended and presented at BarCamp Buffalo. You can see a couple quick glimpses of me presenting in this nicely done clip by WNYMedia.net.
Watch Buffalo BarCamp  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
It was a fun event, and while I was initially concerned that my presentation (on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) [...]

While using National Fuel’s online account services I got this fabulous error message:
Error ! The current browser is either too old or too modern (usind DOM document structure).
Thanks, National Fuel. I’ll be sure to upgrade or downgrade my browser so I can continue using your site.

Poorly designed websites, and arbitrary security policies peeve me. Why is it that my online banking sites never require me to change my password, but my healthcare reimbursement account site, on which I cannot do anything except look at what claims have been paid and what my balance is, now requires me to change [...]

I decided to give the whole Facebook thing a whirl, and much to my surprise have found oodles of people that I’ve been out of touch with. Facebook is like one big reunion! Family members, high school classmates, RITers, random Buffalo people I don’t even know (I am not adding you all as [...]

Had a minor glitch with the blog that prevented some IE users from seeing some of the newly created pages, like Ariella’s Gift List. Turns out the .htaccess file needed a manual update. Let me know if you see anything else out of whack.

There are lots of great applications and technologies out there for us internet addicts to use as we read and blog. Generally these technologies are invented to fulfill a specific need, but then are frequently adapted by others to extend beyond the original purpose. Generally that purpose is advertising or spam.
Take Twitter, for [...]