Category: The World


  • Pointless

    So I wanted to open a support ticket. However, in thinking about what I can ask for the company to do arrayed against what they are willing to offer for support, I realized… I am not going to get a resoultion for the ticket. It is functioning as designed. They are just going to tell…

  • Monopoly Fears

    Something brought up my abandoned Friendster blog, which had a link to fiftymillimeter which used to be my favorite photography site by people in Athens prior to me even moving here. Why “used to be”? Well over a year ago, they stopped posting to the site. Sad, I know. Still, I was curious, Where are…

  • Huh… Off Summize… back in the day, the Olympics would mean a pause in war… someone needs to tell Russia and Georgia ๐Ÿ™ Kathleen Danielson Who would tell Russia and Georgia? The world leaders, include President George W. Bush, were all at the Olympics Games opening ceremony when the fighting started. Bush has called “for…

  • Palazzo By Day, originally uploaded by Ezra F. My second favorite shot of the whole trip. The palm tree placement was intentional. The Sun was reflected off the windows down at me.

  • A Better Convention Badge, originally uploaded by Ezra F. After Star Trek:The Experience, I put the ticket stub in the back of the DevCon name badge. Here it is backwards. Ironically, at breakfast just after the picture, I was let into the dining room with it this way. ๐Ÿ™‚

  • NCC-1701-D, originally uploaded by Ezra F. No flash lets one see the lights better than with flash. Taken at the Star Trek: The Experience at the Hilton in Las Vegas. If you want to catch it, then you need to go by there before September 1 when it closes. ๐Ÿ™

  • Palazzo Check-In Skylight, originally uploaded by Ezra F.

  • A while ago, George wrote about the new fees for flying. Lacey pointed out how the price of oil affects the cost of running an airline. Thoughts about these have been lurking in my head ever since. Today I have watched a couple times a speech given by Congressman Roscoe Bartlett on how oil production…

  • Would you believe United States employees cost their employers $650 billion in productivity costs in the seconds it takes for them to return attention back to the task at hand? The time spans lost are the same amount of time required to interpret a CAPTCHA. E-mail, instant messaging, Twitter, etc. are all distractions from getting…