Ever wonder what the difference between gray and grey is?Read more
Month: May 2007
Tea ceremony
A Japanese tea ceremony. Simple, quiet, and wonderfully non-21st century.Read more
Using Google Earth to find the absolute farthest place from home
Using Google Earth’s “ruler” tool, I was able to find the absolute farthest place in the world from Jakarta. I previously thought my home state of Michigan was pretty far from here. I was wrong: it’s only 9,856 miles from Jakarta. It turns out Bogota, Colombia is close to being the absolute farthest place from Jakarta at 12,436 miles. (The opposite side of the globe from Michigan turns out to be a place 1,300 miles off the west coast ofRead more
Image theft
A fellow photographer wrote to me expressing concern that his photographs and mine are being used without permission on Ebay. The link is here. I’d like to take action to resolve this, as image theft is a rampant problem throughout the ‘net. I realize there’s next to nothing I can do to stop people from stealing my photos without permission once I post them on the ‘net (I never post full size photos), but I’d like to think I canRead more