Wegman’s Good Dog Park in Syracuse, Jamesville Park, Google Earth Overlays, Vacation Camping at Evangola State Park, Buffalo Area

Wegman’s Good Dog Park in Syracuse & Jamesville Beach Park So far we’ve made two trips to the Wegman’s Good Dog Park in Syracuse (they also have a Yahoogroups mailing list here). Great place, nicely kept clean with running water, dog bowls for the water, toys, benches, a double gate,…

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Four Dogs! Free Topo Contour Maps for GPS

Ack! Due to coincidental circumstances we’re dogsitting two extra dogs at once. And one’s a LARGE puppy. Whoa. How’d I get roped into this? But with the price of kennels and some of the scary problems people have had with some local kennels who wants to have them take care…

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Artsy Fartsy Friends, Practical High Dynamic Range Use

Friends are good. Not only to hang with, etc, but sometimes in other ways you may not expect. Like expanding your horizons. And in these troubling times sometimes we need our horizons expanded, especially caught up in our ‘normal’ lives as they were. I’ve been taking photos for a long…

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We Need Broadband

We’ve had our share of companies trying to cover our area with Wimax or other wireless services, none seem to have come through on more than a small-scale. One company, Ridgeviewtel (who also have some deployments here in Jefferson County), has set up a petition/info form to map the location…

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The Wii, Windows 7

We have been looking at Wii’s for quite a while. But they aren’t cheap, that’s for sure. I, personally, am not much of a game player and usually avoid sitting and playing games, as a bit of a waste of time. Though I can happily spend hours flying on a…

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Obama, Facebook, Ping.fm, Touchscreens

Wow, it was quite a day yesterday. A new year, a new day. A new president, and a new hope (that sounds vaguely Star War-esque). And I ended up watching the coverage for nearly the whole day while I was working. I have to say; I’ve never been interested in…

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