sduford on Aug 26 2006 | Filed under: Miscellaneous
I’ve been having a lot of issues with this site not working right with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. First, the theme I was using was working fine on Opera and Firefox (my main browser), but someone pointed out to me that the right-hand side menu did not show-up under IE. I switched theme and the problem [...]
sduford on Aug 23 2006 | Filed under: Media, Miscellaneous, Rant
Why is our society so fascinated with beauty? When JonBenet Ramsey was murdered back in 1996, it was a sad event for sure, but did that event deserve to dominate the mass media for years? Would a less beautiful child have gotten the same attention? Of course not, children are killed every day in America [...]
sduford on Aug 18 2006 | Filed under: Panama, Travel
USA Today just published an interesting article on the influx of American baby boomers planning to retire in Panama. You can read it here.
sduford on Aug 14 2006 | Filed under: Miscellaneous
My brother-in-law Jean died yesterday morning, he had been in a coma for a week. Jean was a healthy man his whole life and almost never went to see a doctor. Then suddenly last fall he started having difficulty finding his words, would sometimes speak incoherently, and could no longer read. He was diagnosed with [...]
sduford on Aug 11 2006 | Filed under: Panama
For a little over a century, Panama’s economy, politics, and destiny have been closely tied to the Panama Canal. Now that the canal is becoming obsolete, as more and more modern container ships are too large to transit through it, Panama finds itself at a turning point.
sduford on Aug 10 2006 | Filed under: Panama, Travel
Well my trip planning is starting to come together. In early September, we will fly to Panama City and spend a couple of days there to visit the canal and the historic Casco Viejo district. On the third day, we will rent a car and start driving west along the Pacific Coast. We will be [...]
sduford on Aug 09 2006 | Filed under: Photography
Nikon officially announced a new D80 model.
This is a neat 10.2 Mpix consumer model that sits closer the the D200 then it does to the D70! It is quite a bit smaller and lighter then a D200, smaller then the D70 in fact, yet pack about 70% of the same functionality. However, it doesn’t have [...]
sduford on Aug 01 2006 | Filed under: Photography
Microsoft Live Labs in concert with the University of Washington have been working on a new technology that should revolutionize the way we browse pictures. This software visually indexes pictures and figures out how they are linked. It then produces a 3D montage of the pictures taking into consideration where the camera was actually located. [...]
sduford on Aug 01 2006 | Filed under: Photography
The Nikon Creative Lighting System, Wireless, Remote, Through-the-Lens Metered (iTTL) Flash!
The Imaging Resource has just posted a review of this awesome flash system. It includes a very detailed description of how the system works.
I have had very good success using this system. It is not only very powerful, but also very easy to use once [...]
sduford on Aug 01 2006 | Filed under: Politics
Have you guys ever heard of George Monbiot? He’s an editorialist for the Guardian in the UK, and he’s my favourite Brit journalist.
When it comes to writing editorials, he always does his homework and he never holds anything back. I’m actually surprised that some of his editorials are published at all; he’s very controversial. He [...]
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