“What do they call people who use Twitter – twits?” That’s my sister, the social media Luddite, talking. The video below is probably something she would enjoy (I found a link to it via, um, Twitter): Funny – though it does repeat the misconception people who use social media somehow “don’t have friends,” when the [...]

I watched and read the news yesterday about the rampage shooting, and along with the horror of watching the death toll go up, there was the sorrow that this was such a terrible way for the world to hear about Binghamton. It should not have happened this way. I also watched the afternoon press conference, [...]

On any other day, this might have been big news for Upstate New York: NYRI is probably dead. I’ll write more about it later, but today I just don’t have the heart to.

Surveillance towers planned for Detroit, Buffalo The U.S. Border Patrol is erecting 16 more video surveillance towers in Michigan and New York to help secure parts of the U.S.-Canadian border, awarding the contract to a company criticized for faulty technology with its so-called “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico boundary. The government awarded the $20 million [...]