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From Buffalo Rising – Amanda and another costumed reveler at Oktoberfest!

Greg Connors has a piece in today’s Buffalo News about making money from blogging, which quotes yours truly: Derek Punaro blogs with his wife, Amanda, at Punaro.com. He says there are not interested in selling ad space. “A lot of people incorporate ads into their site to defray their costs and bring in some income,…
Turns out, New York State’s STAR program failed in it’s primary goal – to reduce the property tax burden. It actually had the opposite of it’s intended effect – it accelerated spending by local school districts, which in turn raises the homeowner’s taxes. I really don’t understand how politicians think. If a whole bunch of…
Average monthly tolls, January-October 2006: $16.53 November 2006: $5.54 (and that’ll probably be higher than my average) 😀 There are also no delays anymore at Black Rock in the evenings. Things sped right up after they stopped posting a cop to babysit the plaza. Glad they took my suggestion. 😉
I made up three new words Saturday during our annual picnic in Rochester. I know they’re new because they all returned 0 hits in Google, which I wasn’t even sure was possible. Right now a server at Google HQ is probably flogging itself for failing in it’s role to return at least one paid ad…
As a long time computer geek, I often think about where computing is headed in the future, both near and far. Since a large part of my day job is adapting technology for the average person’s needs, I’m also acutely aware of the issues that hold it back. It’s one of the reasons that’s driven…
I saw this story on Craig’s site, and it intrigued me. We’re all constantly hearing about how Americans work more and give up vacation time. So when someone comes out with a study that seems to indicate the opposite, it warrants some attention. So I decided to read the study, all sixty-some pages of it…