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Verizon FTTP coming to me!
Awwww yeah! Business First reports that Hamburg and Orchard Park are going to be the first WNY areas that Verizon will be instituting it’s Fiber To The Premises service. Last year they ran what I assumed to be fiber to the pole on the corner of my lot, at which point the lines go underground,…
Five favorite concerts
Mike asked what everyone’s five favorite concert experiences were. It was hard to narrow it down, but here are mine: 5. Jethro Tull/Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Darien Lake, 8/18/96 – I got tickets at the last minute after convincing my Dad to go with me and we got fifth row seats. Truthfully, I could…
Cardavenue: Gift Card Exchange
I ran across Cardavenue while reading an article in Money magazine and loved the idea – a website where you can go and post gift cards that you have acquired that you don’t want or need, and try to trade them for other merchants that you might rather have instead. I got a couple Buca…
Quarry Market
Back in December, I had the opportunity to travel to San Antonio, TX for work. While there I made it a point to see not only the Alamo and the Riverwalk, but an excellent example of adaptive reuse. Quarry Market is a beautiful new shopping center built on the former site of the Alamo Cement…
Take that, cable pig!
DirecTV, of which I am both a subscriber and a stockholder, received the highest score in the American Customer Satisfaction Index. “Of the satellite and cable TV companies included in the ACSI survey, DIRECTV posted a significantly higher index score (71) than any other cable or satellite company.” I had Adelphia once. Then I switched…