This must be one of the best applications ever to be released for free… Google Earth It’s a free PC download and it literally brings the world to your desktop. The basic concept is very similiar to Nasa’s World Wind, but in addition to a smooth 3D-rendered Earth, you also get the muscle of Google’s [...]
A few days ago I found a Brownie Target Six-20 from the late 1940s with two rolls of exposed film. One was a color roll and I will have to see how to get that one developed, but I already have the developed black and white roll back from the shop… here are the results. [...]
So much for staying away from politics… One of Baghdad’s water mains has been blown up by the insurgents and more than two million of the residents have been without drinking water for the last two days… one would think that this is pretty big news, considering that it is now summer in Iraq, but [...]
Well – I’ve done it again… I was trying to limit my political rants a bit, but it is very hard to resist… I have to relax a bit more. …and now for something completely different! Two weeks ago we spent a beautiful afternoon in the Arboretorium in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. It was [...]
OK… here’s a little test for you. Read this paragraph and then tell me what country this seems to describe: On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food, or water. Most times they urinated or [...]