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Moving too fast?
Craig wonders if the plans for demolishing the Skyway are wider-reaching than most people think. “Skyway” is local shorthand for the Skyway bridge. But when the I-190 was built in the 1950s, Skyway was the term used to describe the entire portion of the Niagara Thruway that was elevated above street-level — approximately that part…
QuickPlace upgrade, hour 53
All the QuickPlace functionality is working, but somehow my two existing PlaceTypes ended up with save/replication conflicts in them, which promptly caused them to be inherited into most of my places. My first shot at creating an agent to delete them deleted all the docs in the QDK view, which kills the place completely. I…
Geek Week
“Lotus – the final frontier. These are the days of Lotusphere. It’s continuing mission – to seek out new connections and new technologies; to boldly go where no company has gone before.” – Patrick Stewart, Lotusphere 2004 Opening General Session It’s Lotusphere week, and this year’s keynote speaker did not hail from the Star Trek…
Maple Weekend
It’s Maple Weekend, when you can venture out to my neck of the woods and tour some sugar shacks, sample maple products, attend pancake breakfasts, and of course purchase all the maple products you want! We ventured out to three establishments. First stop was Kirsch’s Sugar House. This was actually the first time that any…
Geek Inventory
This weekend I’m focusing on unpacking the various boxes of stuff that should go in my office. Being the family geek means I accumulate quite a collection of computer pieces, cables, and other things to hang on my utility belt. So far I’ve uncovered: 8 Keyboards (1 USB, 5 PS2, and 2 AT) 6 Mice…
Buy American, er… Indian
So GM announced today that they’re investing over $300,000,000 to construct their second plant in India. “GM India’s Chaba said the company chose Maharashtra as the site of the new manufacturing facility because of advantages over labor skills, costs, infrastructure and geographic location.” I’m curious as to what UAW workers think of this. What’s worse…