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01/03/2006 11:26 #24460

Super-Duper-DVR
Category: i am a big dork
I'm in the middle of setting up my new work toy. A digital video recorder that can handle 6 to 8 channels of recorded video at a time, in one box. And I'm setting up a matching terabyte-plus raid storage box.

Very, very much fun.

It's super ironic too... I don't even have TV at home, but at work I watch it or deal with nothing but television all day. Sometimes I tell people that I haven't watched TV in a year, and then I have to remember that I spent 6 hours watching it at work that very day. It's very bizarre.
jim - 01/03/06 15:40
On-Air-Audit / Newstrax :::link:::

We do media research and tracking.
ajay - 01/03/06 15:38
I have to ask: where do you work?

12/19/2005 21:55 #24459

Tis the Season
Now that I have (psuedo)In-Laws, planning where to go for Christmas is so much fun.

12/13/2005 17:57 #24458

RoR 1.0!
Category: i am a big dork
Ruby on Rails reaches 1.0 today!

I can't wait to go to RailsConf 2006!

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jim - 12/13/05 18:02
The yellow link text doesn't show up to well on the default yellow background :(

12/12/2005 11:13 #24457

Four More Years
Category: buffalo
Does anyone else think that our new mayor will get anything more accomplished than Masiello did?

Not me. I still don't know what Byron Brown is about, and that's after much scrutiny these last 6 months. He can't really claim to be inspiring or have vision. He's been dulled in the NYS Senate. As far as I can see he's just part of the Democratic machine.

I'd meant to volunteer for Kevin Gaughn. I thought he was great. But I was working two jobs and just never made the time. So, it is my fault we don't have a better Mayor! If only I'd tried harder. OK, well, it's hard to put a dent in that kind of majority. What was it? Brown 66% and Gaughn 33%? In the general I ended up voting Republican.
james - 12/12/05 19:09
It is a shame that Gaughn, a very qualified canidate who can claim to 'be inspiring or have vision'. While Byron is as exciting a politician as a bowl of oatmeal I can't stick up for Helfer either.. which did not stop me from voting for him.

God, where do these seedy buffalo politicians come from? And who forgot to flush that place while they were still spawning! gha!
joshua - 12/12/05 13:52
I completely agree with you Jim - I share your pessimism. Byron Brown was part of the problem in Albany, and now we are stuck with him.

Don't blame yourself - blame the apathy that Buffalo voters are famous for. Glad to see you voted for Helfer :)

12/07/2005 22:20 #24456

Another one bites the dust!
Category: buffalo
Kuni's is gone, and Lé Metro is for sale, so it too will be gone or changed.

There might be a new sushi place opening up though, just a block or two away. So that's at least something.
paul - 12/07/05 22:40
Is elmwood becomming too expensive for the mainstays?