We had a little fun with the Christmas card this year – we had been waiting for some snow to take a “traditional” Christmas-y photo, but… like they say, if you can’t beat ’em join ’em!
Hope everyone had a great 2015 and looking forward to an even better 2016!
*DING* Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is the correct answer! Congrats to both Toni, one of our hosts at the Silverstone Inn, and Chris Byrd for guessing correctly. We planned a stop at Fallingwater on our trip home, since it’s about a 6.5 hour drive direct from Buffalo. More photos and narrative when I get a…
I have a lot of respect for urban explorers that get into places that most others would never attempt to go, just for the sake of documenting the decaying history of a place that would likely be forgotten. As you can imagine, Buffalo has lots of these types of places – grain silos, Bethlehem Steel,…
As a web applications developer, I often read Jakob Nielsen’s articles on usability. His most recent article deals with something of interest to the blogging world – participation inequality, or as we might say, lurkers vs. commentors. In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little,…
Having had the privilege of logging quite a few airline miles on rarely the same airline in the last year, I’ve seen the extremely wide range of customer service offerings from both U.S. and foreign carriers. I’ve flown domestic carriers that offered nothing more than a 6oz soft drink on a 5 hour flight, to…
We’d like to welcome our good friend, Mike Miller, to the blogosphere! His new blog Shades of Gray will give a slighly different perspective on life in Buffalo – from the eyes of a “middle class and middle aged” person. Welcome, Mike!
I’ve been having a hard time keeping up with all the blogs lately, so I completely missed this piece from BuffaloBlogger, whose in-laws were in town from England and ranked the Central Terminal at the top of their vacation memories list. This ladies and gentlemen was their highlight. This grand old building that so many…