National Geographic podcasts
I just discovered the National Geographic podcasts: I’m in so much trouble, I already have so many podcasts that I download every day, soon I’ll be a professional podcast-listener… I’ve already subscribed to “50 Walks of a Lifetime” from Traveler magazine (a publication to which I used to subscribe, and longingly read each issue) and [...]
Amazing CNE by night photos
Some beautiful long-exposure photos of the rides at the CNE by night — you can feel the motion! Via blogTO.
Flickr geotagging: the best new time suck
I haven’t spent this much time on non-productive work since I discovered RSS readers: Flickr’s new geotagging/mapping feature was released this week, and since a lot of my pictures are from my travels, I felt compelled to map them all. Since I tagged most of my photos with the place name, it was pretty easy: [...]
Travel photos
With the acquisition of my new digital camera, I decided to go pro on Flickr, which in turn has led me to start uploading all of my travel photos that have been previously hosted on my travel subdomain. I’m putting them in sets by trip, and tagging with the locations, so this could take a [...]
Playing tourist in San Francisco
I arrived in San Francisco this week on Tuesday, well in advance of Friday’s BlogHer conference in San Jose, to spend a bit of time seeing the sites. Although I’ve been visiting San Francisco for almost 20 years on business, I rarely get a chance to just be a tourist. Tuesday was hot (for San [...]
Moon over hurricane
This is the coolest photo that I’ve seen for a long time. I used to write software to analyze satellite data, so that’s saying something.
