Brugge, Belgium
ByDerek
I’ve been talking about the Terminal’s upcoming Oktoberfest coming up in a little over a week, but I don’t want anyone to forget about THIS Saturday’s 5th annual Buffalo Brewfest being held at the Terminal for the first time ever! I’ve haven’t been to the previous Brewfests, but it should be a great event! It’s…
This week’s Spam article is on a more serious note. Having long been a subscriber of McAfee’s security products, including McAfee SpamKiller, I was very curious as to certain changes made in their recent update from version 7 to 8. In version 7, SpamKiller would download all your mail to a “holding area” passing through…
I rail on Governor-elect Spitzer a lot for only doing half his job as Attorney General. But even I have to give him props for cleaning up some of the bad stuff that went on in Wall Street. The New York Stock Exchange was a management mess for a long time. Recently, Ex-NYSE CEO Richard…
Anyone that drives a vehicle has seen the sudden drop in gas prices. And anyone that follows financial markets knows this is because of how fickle the global oil market is. It goes up when anything threatens the supply of oil. That can be terrorism, weather, geopolitical tensions, mechanical failures… anything. Many people believed that…
Spent 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…
It was a very low-key Valentine’s Day for us. Amanda was home sick all day (I’ve been denying all day that my throat feels kinda scratchy too). I got home, snowblowed the driveway, helped cook up some pork onion stroganoff (one of my favorites), and we slothed out on the couch and watched TV. Amanda…