Beautiful Lake Atitlan NPR has an interesting article on human rights researchers sifting through tens of millions of documents in a warehouse in Guatemala, looking for evidence of the Guatemalan police’s role in murders during the height of what the article calls Guatemala’s “dirty war” in the 1970s and 1980s. My family left Guatemala for [...]
In today’s world, it’s easy to get fooled by manipulated pictures…
Spent another great weekend with friends in Las Vegas… Plenty of lounging, table tennis, golf, and of course late night fun out on the strip… Gotta love Vegas.
With all the applications, images, and music files on my beloved little laptop, I’ve been running somewhat low on disk space… So today I finally gave in and bought an external hard drive, the neat little My Book Premium Edition from Western Digital. Now I’m a whole 250 GB of space richer. That’s 256,000 megabytes, [...]
I added some more blog bling, which you can see at the bottom of the left sidebar. This nice little widget from the great LibraryThing randomly displays ten books out of all the books that are currently on my book shelves.
Going through some old pictures, I came across this shot I took pretty much exactly a year ago at Clearwater Beach, Florida, where I spent a wonderful vacation with my brother. I could use another vacation like that…
I just added a little Pandora widget to my blog – it’s on the left sidebar if you scroll all the way down… It’s pretty neat, it stores the stations I created so I can have easy access while I surf the web. Try it out- signing up takes only a few seconds, all you [...]
I just came across Lulu again, a great site for very affordable self publishing. I’m curious to try it out, I think for starters I’ll create a hardcover book from my favorite photographs.
I saw M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady In The Water over the weekend, and I have to say, it totally sucked. Maybe my expectations were too high, but the movie turned out to be a weird mythic fairy tale that was just plain laughable and boring. Other appropriate descriptions include dull, uninvolving… I hardly ever walk [...]
Lately I’ve been itching to pick up my photography hobby again, which I truly enjoy but for which I just haven’t had much time in the last few months. So as I was strolling through Borders yesterday, I picked up two books on photography that I’ve read good things about: Galen Rowell’s Inner Game Of [...]
Hmmm something’s wrong if your work days end at 11:50 PM…. I am neglecting my daily news fixes and this blog… Can’t stand the feeling of not knowing what’s going on all over the world and on the web. Gotta change that.