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A Buffalo company celebrates 100 years
Today marks the anniversary of the founding of Praxair, the company I work for, which has been part of the Buffalo landscape since 1907. The company known today as Praxair was born as Linde Air Products Company by Dr. Karl von Linde, a German professor and entrepreneur who invented the cryogenic process for the liquefaction…
Few more tweaks
I’m still playing with the site and the new WordPress Twenty Fourteen theme. Though the help of the excellent Fourteen Extended plugin, all posts are showing in reverse chronological order on the home page now. The featured posts at the top are not necessarily the three most recent anymore. I’ve also changed the homepage to…
Kuala Lumpur International Airport
While I didn’t actually step foot outside the airport, KLIA is quite scenic in it’s own right. Since I had four hours to kill between China and India, I took advantage of the architecture. Click to view full sized
Vacation Geocaching
We rarely go anywhere new without doing a little geocaching along the way. One thing that made this trip fun was the series of caches at rest areas along I-90 East. Out of four rest stops before we exited, we found three geocaches. The fourth appears to be missing altogether. We hit a nice two-part…
Master Microsoft mashes mere mortals’ mouths
I’m sitting here in a Sharepoint class and ran across this series of steps to configure a particular option. Someone over at Microsoft has a severe alliteration fetish! Go to “Services on Server” Click “Office SharePoint Server Search” Once on the “Office SharePoint Server Search Service Settings” page, select “Use this server for serving search…