Archive for March, 2009
Facebook friends
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Last week I finally broke down and joined Facebook at the suggestion of my friend Bonnie. I confess that I never visited the site before. My former career as a band director made me very sociable for 19 years, and I felt I had enough. Due to both my vision problems and the fact that [...]
John Rappold and the Mystery of the Old Hollywood Location
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009Note: I thought this might be a decent way to show some Internet Research methods. In 2010 I’m planning on taking a two-week road trip to the Southwestern United States. The two prime sites I want to visit are Monument Valley on the border of Utah and Arizona; and Lone Pine/Alabama Hills in California. If [...]
PS3 – Games I’m checking out in 2009
Saturday, March 21st, 2009Here’s my list of games I’m looking into this year. I’m spending most of my “fun cash” this year on a project I’ll post about later, so I won’t be purchasing too many games this year. Definite Buys: Heavy Rain (PS3 Exclusive) – This adult-themed film-noir thriller is in my opinion the biggest gamble on [...]
Google Earth Tour Feature
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009Beginning with Google Earth V5, users have the ability to view and create animated/multimedia tours that include narration from within the software. The great team at ilovemoutains.org have put together an Appalachian Mountaintop Removal tour that demonstrates the vast area that a strip mining site requires, and the steps involved with mining the coal. Download [...]
My Playstation 3 – One Year Later
Sunday, March 15th, 2009My name is John. I’m 57 and I play games on my PS3. Although I was embarrassed at first to tell people about my gaming, to my surprise, people I know in all age groups don’t think it’s strange or immature; or they’re lying. “Yeah, John. that’s cool…great. I’ll be leaving now”. Younger members of [...]
Dreamweaver is not dying…yet
Thursday, March 12th, 2009A tweet from my friend Alvin last week led me to I’m sorry but Dreamweaver is dying on the PC Pro web site. For the uninitiated, Adobe’s Dreamweaver is still the leading web design and development tool used today. A lot of people who viewed the article on PC Pro didn’t realize that author Tom [...]
Academic Earth
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Currently in the Beta phase, Academic Earth provides video lectures from such institutions as MIT, stanford, Yale and others, with a wide array of subjects. Video quality is very good, although I found audio levels to be a bit inconsistent at times. The stated mission of the site is …giving everyone on earth access to [...]
My Blu-ray Movie Experience
Sunday, March 8th, 2009I’ll start off by saying that in the year I’ve had my Blu-ray player, I only own one movie. That movie is a doozy that I’m going to save for last. I have a large DVD collection, so I’m reserving my Blu-ray purchases for only special titles. Most of my Blu-ray movie watching has been [...]
Blu-ray Hate
Saturday, March 7th, 2009This is a post I’ve been wanting to write for months. It’s the age-old lesson of doing one’s research and making an informed opinion; apparently not de rigueur on the Internet. Let’s go back to 2007. At this time there is a format war raging between two High Definition (HD) consumer optical disc formats: HD-DVD [...]
Two New Web Sites for Civics
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Miffed that NCLB ignores Civics, and the fact that more of our citizens know the names of American Idol judges better than our own Supreme Court Members, former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has launched Our Courts for teachers and students. Our Courts is a free, interactive, web-based program designed to teach students civics and inspire [...]
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