Brugge, Belgium
ByDerek
Volunteers as part of the United Way Day of Caring came to the Central Terminal today to help clean up the various gardens and planters along the Memorial Drive circle. We sincerely thank them for all their hard work! The Alive Park got quite a facelift, and some new flowers as well! Amanda and I…
Last week if you would have asked me about my thoughts on Buffalo’s Trico plant, I probably would have told you I didn’t have many. My knowledge of the property was limited, as frankly is my knowledge of many of Buffalo’s buildings aside from the Central Terminal. It’s a side effect of being intently focused…
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,…
Yeah… you may have noticed I can’t keep up with the blog posts. Obviously a lot has happened in the past 6 weeks and much of our time has been spent at the house – sometimes just observing, sometimes planning, and lately even some working. We are down to [supposedly] the last two weeks of…
We took a ride out to the Hamburg Recreation Center to get discount tickets for Kissing Bridge and decided to make an attempt for a geocache or two. We trudged through the snow, but determined the cache we were looking for was buried under the snow and/or frozen to the ground, so we skipped it….
It’s a beautiful snowy Sunday out here in the country. Here’s a simply modified photo, using only Picasa’s Focal B&W and soft focus filters. I think it makes a relatively dull photo (below) into something much more interesting.