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Friday Five – July 1, 2011
ByDerekFriday Five is my [most]weekly technology tidbits post that I write for my internal Praxair blog and cross-post here. #1 – Google+ invite received, we go hands-on [Engadget] When news of Google Plus’ arrival broke today, we called the service an “all out assault on social networking.” After playing around with it for a bit,…
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The Queen Mary
ByDerekSpent 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…
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Derek’s Law: No home project will take less than two trips to the store
ByDerekI’ve attempted two “minor” homeowner projects in the last couple of weeks that should have been breezes. The first – replace the nasty stove hood that was here when we bought the house, had no filter, and which I had repeatedly super glued the light knob back on to. The second, add adjustable wire shelving…
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Where in the world is our Travel Bug?
ByDerekOur travel bug has been pimpin’ all over the world in Africa for quite some time now. Got an update today that it’s still in South Africa, but it’s moving towards the Indian Ocean, currently near the city of Durban on Umgeni Road. Total mileage traveled so far: 11,287.6
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How Do We Plan Our New Build?
ByAmandaFor three years we have been driving our Realtor Jen Weber CRAZY with visiting many pre-owned homes in our area. When that wasn’t working out, we turned to looking for land. After a few failed attempts, we found a perfect lot in Colden, which is now ours!! Of course now that means we are on…
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Punaro Glen Construction: Beginning of June
ByDerekWe picked a builder! We’re happy to announce we’ve selected Custom Builders of WNY to build our home. May was largely spent on two points – talking to our potential builders and contractors on site development thoughts and working to bring down our cost estimates. Both of these things led us towards picking CBWNY. That’s…
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