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Spam for Clinton!
ByDerek
Before both the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary, I noticed a rise in a new type of spam – fake blogs causing Google alerts to send not-so-subliminal political messages: Google Blogs Alert for: Buffalo Central Terminal Bill Clinton Photo Gallery By admin They’re staying at (we’re not devising this up) Tiggywinkles Animal hillary…
Deregulation Not to Blame for Financial Woes
ByDerek
Good column over at Bloomberg.com from Peter J. Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. — The subprime and other junk mortgages that Fannie and Freddie bought — and the market in these mortgages that their buying spawned — are the underlying cause of the financial crisis. These…
A new job, a new future
ByDerek
2012 marks my 12th year working for Praxair since graduating from RIT with a degree in IT. I started working on Praxair’s first e-Commerce systems, and then transitioned to help build Praxair’s first intranet on Lotus Domino, and then was part of the team that rolled out Microsoft SharePoint enterprise wide for document management and…
Memories of Mike Miller
ByDerek
Last Thursday, our good friend Mike Miller passed away. Many people knew Mike from the work he did for the Buffalo Central Terminal, Broadway Fillmore Alive, and most recently Preservation Buffalo Niagara. We knew Mike first as a friend, and a great advocate for Wesern New York second. You often hear people say, “He’s the…
He shoots… he waits
ByDerek
I’m taking a shot at getting tickets for game 3 online. At the moment, I’m stuck in the 30 second refresh queue: Updates: 9:06… still waiting 9:08… still waiting 9:10… still waiting 9:12… still waiting 9:14… still waiting 9:15… SOLD OUT Not just game 3 either, the entire third round. Well, it was worth a…