Well, we finally did it: Giles and I have officially launched Regional Imagery, LLC. We envision it as a stock photography venture that specializes in images of place. We think that publishers and corporations are often interested in iconic shots and/or detail shots of particular places for use on book covers, brochures, web sites, etc. So, [...]
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Facebook!
I have had a personal page for Facebook for a while. While I have some problems with how it’s organized and some of the mindless crap on there, if has been invaluable for getting in touch with friends from high school and college that I probably never would have seen again. For that, it has [...]
Mac in Action
Several weeks ago, my MacBook Pro’s monitor started acting up. I purchased my 15″ MBP in November of 2007, so it was about two months out-of-warranty when the monitor would inadvertently not come on during boot or flicker off during use. Finally, after I lived for a month with the display’s new capriciousness, it went [...]
Gore Interview
In a recent issues of Newsweek [via Truthout], Fareed Zakaria interviews Al Gore about environmentalism and the auto industry. Gore supports a “bail out” only so far as it allows GM to stay competitive — i.e., technologically and and economically. This is telling: When I was vice president, I initiated a program called the Partnership [...]
I Spoke too Soon
I’m really tired of being treated like a criminal. When are these big companies going to learn: the more they try to break my digital devices, the faster they will lose? The more they try to control their digital content with DRM, the more they damage themselves? They might be able to keep their content [...]
Pay Attention!
We seem to be in trouble. On the way into work this morning, NPR had a small snippet about what the world will probably be like in 2025. When they say “the world,” they mean human affairs, of course. Well, the US has fallen from its mighty perch, being replaced primarily by southeast Asian countries. [...]
Do You Have an Elevator Pitch?
A friend sent me a link to Paul Williams’ (of Idea Sandbox) discussion of the Elevator Pitch, a 30-second summary of who you are and what you do — you know, in case you’re ever in an elevator with someone like Steve Jobs and he says “you got thirty seconds, chump.” As Williams explains, the [...]