Posted in Landscape, People, Places on Jul 30th, 2007 2 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. My granddaughter Erin, my wife and I spent the afternoon boulder hopping on the Shepaug River a few miles south of here. This was a big deal for Erin who loves to walk up and down the bed of our stream but had never been on a big river like this one. The [...]
Posted in Social Software on Jul 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Internet Censorship Spreading, Study Finds
How companies like Google and Yahoo deal with this going forward will be interesting. The recent flap about censorship on flickr (owned by Yahoo) saw thousands of customers leaving in protest. Personally, I think their anger was partly misdirected; they should have been aiming it at Germany and other countries asking [...]
Posted in Social Software on Jul 30th, 2007 No Comments »
(-: Just Between You and Me ;-) looks at the history of “emoticons” on the internet. We ain’t talkin’ acroyms here (LOL) but emoticons: ;)
[via Gary Sharp.]
Posted in Opinion, Politics on Jul 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
– Mark Twain
Posted in People, Politics on Jul 28th, 2007 3 Comments »
Santa Monica, California. My mother wore one of her two Obama shirts today* so I could take a picture of her in it to put on flickr. Good for her for thinking like this. I mean, at 92 she’s pro-actively using the internet (and me) to do her bidding.
*I bought the shirts for her on [...]
Posted in Photography, Tech Stuff on Jul 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo.
Photosynth is an algorithm for mapping all kinds of visual information into easy to scan and navigate forms. This demo is mind blowing, especially the finale which is thousands of images from flickr of the Notre Dame Cathedral all linked together to make a whole. What a fantastic example [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Jul 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Webjimbo 1.0 is a web interface for Yojimbo, a wonderful personal imformation magagement tool.
Interesting.
[via Daring Fireball Linked List.]
Posted in People, Yoga Photographs on Jul 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
Eka Pada Rajakapotasana (one legged king pigeon)
New Preston, Connecticut. This is my yoga teacher (and my wife’s as well) Anne Hungerford doing Eka Pada Rajakapotasana II (one legged king pigeon variation or "the mermaid pose").
Anne is a gifted teacher, able to work with beginners like me and more advanced yogis like my wife and [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Jul 24th, 2007 3 Comments »
Apple has an amazing array of equipment on their Special Deals page. There are great deals here for all sorts of Macintosh computers and accessories.
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jul 24th, 2007 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. A friend called at the end of a rainy day and said that she knew where there was a yard full of Asiatic lilies that were in full bloom and that I should pack up my camera gear and get over quick between downpours. It was a perfect day: broken clouds, small bits [...]
Posted in Landscape, People on Jul 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Walking around the property of a new friend in Warren, we stopped to enjoy a clearing and meadow he’d made in the woods years before. How many people with enough land to do this would think to make a meadow in the middle of a dense woods? We stood and soaked in his [...]
Posted in People, Yoga Photographs on Jul 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
New Preston, Connecticut. This is my yoga teacher (and my wife’s as well) Anne Hungerford doing sirsasana (headstand).
Anne is a gifted teacher, able to work with beginners like me and more advanced yogis like my wife and she has just the right take on yoga (for me and my wife): she doesn’t strip it of [...]
Posted in Architecture on Jul 22nd, 2007 4 Comments »
Dubai skyscraper world’s tallest
Check the enlarged image, it will blow your mind.. This isn’t just a tall building but there’s very little around it to get in the way so it looks enourmous by comparison to everything around it. The enlarged image is a magnificent photograph.
[via BBC News | World | UK Edition.]
Posted in Photo Gear on Jul 22nd, 2007 28 Comments »
This is the first in a series of posts on camera gear that I use and tips on how to use it. There is a limited glossary and a list of resources at the end of this article.
While the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM is not the most expensive or highest end lens in [...]
Posted in People, Reading on Jul 21st, 2007 5 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. My wife came home from being away for a week and Amazon delivered her long-ago-ordered Harry Potter book and, well, she’s gone again. Sigh.
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jul 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. A friend called at the end of a rainy day and said that she knew where there was a yard full of Asiatic lilies that were in full bloom and that I should pack up my camera gear and get over quick between downpours. It was a perfect day: broken clouds, small bits [...]
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff on Jul 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Salon’s Farhad Manjoo takes a look at Google’s $4.6 billion plan for an open wireless Internet.
This is a very big piece of news for two reasons: it shows where Google is headed, controlling indexing and pipes, and Google is only bidding under the condition that any other bidder adhere to agreed upon principles of internet [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jul 20th, 2007 5 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Since starting to use Aperture I’ve been regretting my decision to not put a 7200 RPM internal HD in this computer when I fixed its then dead hard disk which broke in an accident.
I’ve been spending a lot of time in Aperture editing images and given that I can’t upgrade memory any [...]
Posted in Ideas on Jul 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
Replate is a movement dedictated to making leftover food more available to people who need it by leaving it on top of trash cans.
They’re working on making the word commonplace although I’m not sure the chrome hubcap amd bumper industry is going to like it.
[via Bill Lynn]
Posted in Photographers, Places on Jul 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
New York, New York. Mamen came to visit Anne and me in May and among many other photo outings we spent a day in New York.
I’ll never forget how thrilled she was when we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, it just tickled her to be out there looking back at Manhattan. [...]
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