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So, I am a New Jersian who frequently travels to Manhattan for both business and pleasure. Due to the difficulty of traffic and parking in New York City, I prefer taking mass transit, so improved rail access to the city is something which I support. When Governor Christie cancelled the ARC tunnel project, I was [...] Rockaway Township’s mayor, Louis Sceusi says that the closure of the Splitrock Reservoir parking lot was a last ditch effort to get the state involved in cleaning up and policing the area. He also says it is working. Read more. I have created the Friends of Splitrock, a community group with the goal of preserving and promoting access to the Splitrock Reservoir. I will continue to post major updates on this issue here, but there will be a lot more information available over at the Friends of Splitrock website. Already I have gotten some positive news [...] I visited the Splitrock Reservoir this evening expecting to get some good fishing in. I had been chased off the water early on both Friday and Saturday nights by thunderstorms moving into the area, but the temperature was back down to the mid-eighties today and the full moon was going to be coming up right [...] Cablevision has announced a new feature that they are calling “PC to TV Media Relay”, the idea of which is to stream the screen contents from a personal computer to a special channel on the customer’s cable box. They are planning to get a technical trial going by June of this year. From the press [...] So, it turns out that my barber went to high school with Pete Cammarano, putting me a scant two degrees away from yesterday’s corruuption busts! More Jersey small-worldness… So, Hoboken’s brand new mayor Peter Cammarano and dozens of other officials just got arrested for corruption! It sounds like they have him dead-to-rights… even accepting $10,000 from an undercover operative last Thursday. According to the Times, Cammarano was quoted earlier in the investigation as saying Right now, the Italians, the Hispanics, the seniors are locked down. [...] So, I’m at the wedding of one of Sheryl’s friends, and who do I see? Mr. Ollio, my 7th grade math / high school homeroom teacher! His crazy haircut hasn’t changed in the 9 years since I last saw him… it is good to know that you can still count on some things. |
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Wikipedia upgrades software, all hell breaks loose
Wikipedia was upgrading its software to a current version of Mediawiki this morning. Things do not seem to have gone so well…
Currently, requests to en.wikipedia.org are timing out or returning the error message below. Hopefully they will get their systems sorted out quickly. While I am glad that they are trying to stay [...]