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Photography tips for memorable photos 1

Mar

21

2013

Although I have not mentioned it much on this blog, Photography is one of my hobbies, so I’m an amateur at it, but I always like to learn , try new gadgets or apply new techniques. I’m a big fan of sports photography (even when I’m in the sport) or other action photos (like air shows, soccer ...

Common sense ways to prevent identity theft. 6

Mar

12

2013

Identity theft as we know it today is on the rise. It’s rather simple in a well connected world that thieves and other miscreants can glean a couple of bits of our personal data SSN, date of birth address etc. and then begin formulating a new false identity from which they hope to profit for personal gain. Much of ...

Future of high-speed travel is not by air but by “rail” 8

Feb

7

2013

The more you live the more you realize how things change. While your going through it,change sometimes seems to take forever but only when we reflect back does it seem so obvious and apparent. Oddly one area of change that hasn’t progressed much since my birth in the early seventies is that of high-speed travel, ...

Why no Prize-linked savings accounts… 2

Jan

31

2013

How many of you out there have heard of the Powerball ? Megaball? MegaMillions? or any other of the hundreds of lotteries and games? now, how many have heard of prize-linked savings accounts? Not many, there’s a simple reason, that’s because they don’t really exist here in the U.S. (there are a couple experiments see ...

Update: When on Robots do all the work? on 60 Minutes…

Jan

14

2013

Lo and behold to my surprise yesterday, when 60 Minutes ran a story on exactly the topic I posted about a few months back, What happens When Robots do all the work? Pretty much this 60 Minutes story touched on all the points I discussed on my original blog posting. I recommend you watch the video here: ...

Tomorrow’s world: BBC infographic

Jan

9

2013

Interesting infographic about the future Having just recently posted a blog entry on the future of work. I was reading my Flipboard feed and came across this interesting infographic from the BBC Future web site. I found it amusing and interesting because some of the predictions (And that’s what these are) some of them coincide with my ...

My Quirky Bucket List

Dec

30

2012

Ahh the proverbial bucket list. Its that time of year, when people begin to think of New Year’s resolutions. So I prefer to think a little longer term, not just in the next year, but lifetime…. As we complete yet another orbit around the sun, its time to realize as discomforting as it may be, ...

Bitcoin – currency fail .. or future of money?

Dec

13

2012

I’ve been pretty intrigued by bitcoin lately. If your not familiar with bitcoin you can of course head over to the wikipedia bitcoin entry or you can head over to this no nonsense post bitcoing post on gizmodo . In a nutshell bitcoin is an on-line digital currency (sometimes referred to as a crypto-currency) ...

What happens when robots do ALL the work?

Jul

17

2012

Everyone is complaining about China and how all of our jobs are going overseas, But the real concern may not be China or any other Asian country, it’s likely to be the inevitable march of technology , automation and how modern civilization in making the world a “better” place is going to bring a lot ...

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