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ByDerek
According to the St. Catharines Standard, the Aquarama/Marine Star was scrapped, starting on September 16 last year. The former passenger and auto ferry Aquarama was sold for scrap and towed to Aliaga, Turkey, last summer. The ship had been idle since 1962. … The deep-sea tug Aetos Z. took the vessel across the Atlantic and…
Running for East Aurora Coop Board of Directors
ByDerek
Amanda and I were early adopters of the East Aurora Cooperative Market. We signed up as member-owners back in 2010 after learning about their ambition to open a member-owned food market focusing on locally produced items. Earlier this year, the coop announced they were looking for board candidates. The group is set to announce their site location on…
Lotusphere wrapup
ByDerek
Ahh… Lotusphere. You go to learn, to be immersed in new technology, to see glimpses of the future, and to be bathed in yellow goodness (yellow is the new black!). The only problem is leaving and coming back to the reality that your company has no plan to upgrade to Notes/Domino 7 at this time,…
It’s all Buffalo to me
ByDerek
Buffalo Hodgepodge is a relatively new blogger, but it’s good to see another intelligent person emphasizing a point near and dear to many of us “fringe Buffalonians”… Conflict between Amherst and Buffalo, Clarence and Amherst, Orchard Park and Buffalo, etc. etc. only masks THE big whopping, massive problem – which I’ll call “global economic uncompetitiveness .