The Watchtower in Sequoia – an HDR Experiment

The Watchtower in Sequoia – an HDR Experiment Originally uploaded by Wordyeti. Just goofing off with this program called Photomatix – which takes a single RAW image and takes all the image information contained therein and blends it into one final image....

Stay Safe, Stay Anonymous, Cook Your Passport in the Microwave

OK, this will seem a bit odd. But the latest development on the part of the Homeland Security Brain Trust is to put little RFID tags into our passports.  RFID tags are those little stickers that look like they have a circuit board printed on them that you find...

Spam 2.0: The Bad Guys Get Trickier

I was wondering WTF was up with all the goddam spam lately. I had chalked it up as just being symptomatic of the Christmas season, when retailers, online and off, all hawk their wares. Apparently, not.The big problem these days is that the spammers have enlisted an...

My Relatives Are A Little Loony

I’ve been participating in some online discussions about using naughty words – and what a naughty word consists of.  In one discussion, somebody brought up the point that in Quebec, people swear using the words “tabernacle” or...