January 2010
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Wegmans Ranks #1 on Greenpeace Supermarket Score →
I <heart> wegmans.
I do believe I will shrivel up and die if I have to move to a region in which no wegmas exists.
Handheld Cellphone Bans Don't Reduce Car Crashes... →
Interesting article on measured impact of cell phone bans (read:no impact at all).
One line from the article struck me as rather poignant here in Erie: it may force other local governments to look a little more broadly at what’s behind all those collisions.
Month-to-month fluctuations in rates of collision claims in jurisdictions with bans didn’t change from before to after the laws...
Erie Fine Dining, is it a deal?
I’ve thought about getting one of these Erie Fine Dining cards for years… Anyone have any feedback, good or bad on them?
Seem like a pretty good deal. Pay $50, get the card and you can use it twice at each of the 25 restaurants for “buy one get one dinners”. Given that it’s January now is the time to really get the best bang for the buck!
I’m kinda shocked...
Flight Diverted to Philadelphia Over Security... →
We are truly a panicked nation…
Photo by PlayfulLibrarian
Making YourErie.com readable in Google Chrome: Two...
I’ve already expressed my love of Google Chrome on this site before but it’s not without issues. Some are the fault of Google but a lot are just sites that aren’t up to standard.
I was going to post a rant about how YourErie.com needs to get with the times, support standards, blah blah blah. You see, YourErie.com renders like a pile of poo in Google Chrome. I’m not sure...
Check for PA Vanity Plates on PennDOT website now! →
Pennsylvania is now offering an online form to check to see if your favorite potential vanity plate is taken!
Cool stuff. I like vanity plates. I’ve had them for years but never felt good about mailing in my 3 top picks not knowing which one I might get. At least now you can check first!
Another fun site to kill some time at, papl8s.com (PA Plates).
SharePoint Blunders: Workflow History and Tasks... →
Yargh. I am totally caught in a pickle at work because of this issue. I understand why this works the way it does and that it’s not a design flaw but a necessary evil on Microsoft’s side..but damn…
WSS and MOSS both purge the association between tasks and documents that were assigned during a workflow every 60 days. The tasks are still there (somewhere) but don’t show...
13 Excellent Chrome Extensions - Lifehacker →
Lifehacker put out a list of nice Chrome add-ons.
One I installed immediately was IE Tab.
This is a tool was something I used all the time in Firefox. If I hit a page that only likes IE (say something on the ol’ corporate network) I can quickly open IE “inside” of Chrome.
Note that you need the Beta edition of Google Chrome to use these extensions.
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Erie City Cell Phone Ban Issues and Complaints
Here are a myriad of issues I can see with the new ordinance passed by the City of Erie. I’ll add more as I think of them as comments below. Feel free to add your thoughts one way or the other!
Let me say that I am not against banning the use of cell phones when driving. This does make sense. However, I do feel that the City of Erie would be best to simply leave this type of law to the...
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The fantastic chicken wing -- Alton Brown Style...
Damn I love wings. My girlfriend and I are often out and about to different bars, taverns, holes in the walls, resturants, wherever, to try some new wings.
I have hopes of making my own, bad ass wings maybe for the super bowl. Spent some time today reviewing some data, mainly from my beloved alton brown.
Here’s what I’ve learned. I’m puttin’ this down on paper for...
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SQL Server 2008: Reporting →
Had a co-worker friend at work demo SQL 2008 Report Builder yesterday.
Click once app, automatically “friendly names” all your tables and columns, let’s end users load up reports and customize them like Access, let’s end users save their tweaked reports back out to Sharepoint to share.. I could go on… It comes with wizards to generate graphs, tables, KPI’s,...
Why did it take me so long to eat out at Big... →
We ate at Big Moe’s during the great snowstorm of 09-10 last week out in Edinboro and let me tell you, it’s fantastic.
I’m upset it took me so long to get over there to eat!
They offer very eclectic meal options with what I’d call a mix of greek fare and typical pub foods with some minor polish/italian/mexican thrown in. You could get babaganoush or a burger or a...
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I'm glad we saved some money, but will it explode?
I needed a new battery for my laptop… Client support was cool enough to get me one the same day.
The old battery was Dell OEM, produced in Japan, and UL certified.
The new battery is not OEM, produced in China, and has no UL certification what-so-ever. WTF?!
Is my crotch going to catch on fire in the near future with this non-UL battery?
I’m sure it shaved a few pennies of the...
Google Chrome > Mozilla Firefox
Taking a look at my filesystem reveals that I haven’t even run Firefox since 8/4/2009. I used to love Firefox.
Now, I am in love with Chrome and don’t miss Firefox at all. I instinctively type searches into the address bar of all browsers now and have expectations of it performing google searches :-) It took a while to get used to the GUI but now it’s a non-issue.
Firefox...
Committee agrees on compromise for table games |... →
I am really excited to see table games hit PA…
This will be quickly tempered once they are here and all the table games have $15-20 minimums… Unlike Vegas there ain’t much in the way of gamblin’ competition directly in the Erie area.
Ahhhh…vegas and your $3 craps tables, how I miss thee.
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The 'Israelification' of airports: High security,... →
This article makes a some good points. Worth the read to see the comparison of security tactics being used.
The thought that our TSA is a sham is not lost on me. I walked on to a flight at some point last year with a frickin’ 6 inch knife in my backpack on accident. This same bag went through TSA x-ray machines without incident.. it was even mostly empty because my laptop was removed to...
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Google Trends for Websites: myspace.com →
I really need to delete my myspace account. I haven’t logged into it in probably 10 months.
From the looks of this Google Trends diagram I think their time is over. Not only that but Murdoch overpaid by $580 million!
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Parking is hard...
I work with extraordinarily bright people; I’m talking aerospace engineers, chemists, and the like… but give them a parking lot without visible lines on the ground and they will park like retards. This is compounded by the fact that they park here 5 days a week, some even park twice a day if they go out for lunch.