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General Betray Us to General Save Us General Petraeus 99 Senate Votes to nothing!

From the capricious detractors who viewed him as General Betray Us to the ardent supporters, all senators on board voted in favor of confirming General David Petraeus to head up the war, excuse me, contingency action, in Afghanistan. How did the same guy move from betrayer of the country to a man who everyone hopes [...]

30 June 2010 at 09:41 - Comments

This Video Is Taking Forever To Render

You think your computer is pretty fast and that’s great until you start working with video. Then the crawl begins. Not only do you crawl while rendering video, but your computer tends to acquire a leisurely pace at best when it’s doing anything else while rendering video. Just sayin’ I made a series of videos [...]

26 June 2010 at 19:33 - Comments

How Do You Give Away Responsibility?

How do you give away responsibility? A builder of custom Palm Beach Gardens homes, Brett Handler of Dreamstar Custom homes, along with a team of bankers, real estate agents and businesses in the local Palm Beach Gardens community did just that by giving away a copy of an audio book entitled, Dear Graduate, to every [...]

13 June 2010 at 11:16 - Comments

New Used Bookstore in Temecula – Murrieta Area

I posted a new video for a Temecula independent bookstore. My wife, Diane spotted this store months ago but we get home late from her school in Anaheim most days. One day last month, we had the rare opportunity to come home before closing and we stopped in. Diane loves book stores, especially where there [...]

13 June 2010 at 08:48 - Comments

Jacaranda Trees in Fullerton

They’re at the peak of blooming now. The Jacaranda trees leave a lavender carpet on the ground covering lawns, streets and even roofs as the petals begin to drop down. Here’s my Orange County Wedding Photographers site. Taken on Chapman Ave. in Fullerton CA Jacarandas grow around the world any place where risk of hard [...]

11 June 2010 at 15:02 - Comments

Something Afoot – Orange County Wedding Photography

Orange County Wedding in Laguna Beach, 2006. The original of this photo had too much harsh lighting and the colors of the beach sand, skin tones and toenail polish just seemed to compete too much for attention. You judge for yourself (see below) I used enough layers in photoshop to start over wherever I needed [...]

8 June 2010 at 22:26 - Comments

Maui 06

Like a distant wildfire, the sun sets over Lanai. A couple walks along the beach barely noticing their surroundings. After a few days, the surroundings almost feel normal- like there was never anywhere else. Maui pulls you into its spell that way. Each wave in its gentle crash carries you another small distance- away from [...]

5 June 2010 at 22:57 - Comments

Spammers Who Un-follow, Re-follow on Twitter

Most of these spammers have run the unfollow/refollow cycle so many times, I’ve memorized their profile names.

4 June 2010 at 08:22 - Comments

Lost Theories, Quantum Physics and the Finale of Questions

Suddenly, everyone ends up going into the front door of a church, except Jack, who has for some inexplicable reason, to go in through the rear entrance just so he can look again into a coffin. Jack, ever the doubting Thomas, is ripped out of his universe with the words of John Locke echoing in [...]

3 June 2010 at 11:34 - Comments