Ford developing HAL 9000 nav system
March 11, 2009 at 9:38 pm by DerekYes, 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 [...]
BarCamp Buffalo
March 6, 2009 at 12:03 pm by DerekEarlier 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.
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It was a fun event, and while I was initially concerned that my presentation (on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) [...]
If only…
October 31, 2008 at 12:09 pm by DerekPromotion, Self
May 6, 2008 at 11:17 pm by DerekI don’t post much about my job, but this was the nice writeup that my manager sent out to all of IT earlier this week about my new role.
I am pleased to announce that Derek Punaro has been promoted to IT Information Architect, a new job title created for the Sharewaves07 Collaboration Support team. [...]
On the Surface
June 1, 2007 at 10:43 pm by DerekRevolutionary technology comes around only once in a great while. I’m not sure I would quite classify Microsoft Surface as revolutionary, but at a minimum it’s the biggest leap forward in computer-human interface design in a long time. As I sit here massaging my sore wrist, my mind says that anything that gets [...]
Master Microsoft mashes mere mortals’ mouths
February 2, 2007 at 11:40 am by DerekI’m sitting here in a Sharepoint class and ran across this series of steps to configure a particular option. Someone over at Microsoft has a severe alliteration fetish!
Go to “Services on Server”
Click “Office SharePoint Server Search”
Once on the “Office SharePoint Server Search Service Settings” page, select “Use this server for serving search queries”
Try to [...]