A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
This is the song I composed for my parents 60th anniversary. It was performed for my parents by a choir made up of my brothers and sisters, their spouses and children. It hadn’t occurred to me to write a song for them until Thursday night, as I was already gathering the other requested music. I … Read More ““A Delightful Inheritance” – the music” »
Psalm 16 – NIV 1 Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge. 2 I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.” 3 As for the saints who are in the land, they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight. … Read More “A Delightful Inheritance” »
There is a television commercial currently on the air for some GPS company – I can’t remember if it was TomTom or Garmin. The ad shows a ceremony at the opening of a new bridge, with a red ribbon across it. Just as the ribbon is cut, a car drives across it per instructions from … Read More “Google Earth Confusion” »
I frequently check to see what other sites are linking to mine. As I did that this evening, I stumbled upon a goldmine of GIS resources. The US Army maintains a huge clearinghouse of resources at www.tech.army.mil/gis/. There are four quite long pages of links to just about anything related to geography and mapping. Under … Read More “GIS Information Goldmine” »
Today was just a day for roadblocks – first Flickr, then my own street. The county finally closed off our street. Soon the pavement will be removed, and construction will begin on the cul-du-sac. Traffic is being re-routed on other parallel streets. The other morning, Laura was driving on Tranquil Drive, and said that a … Read More “More Roadblocks” »
Happy 60th Anniversary! Putting up with each other for that long is a great achievement. Putting up with the rest of us is even more amazing! Congratulations! Stephen has a much better way with words, so I’ll just link to his tribute.
When I first got to my office early this morning I opened up RandomConnections to check comments and clean out the boatload of spam comments that tends to accumulate overnight. The first thing I noticed was that all of my photos were missing. If I clicked through to get to the actual photo page, the … Read More “So Much for Flickr” »
Right now there are three main players in the photo geotagging world – Flickr, Panoramio, and Picasa. All three of these list geotagging as a feature, and provide easy drag-n-drop apps for adding location to the images. I was curious as to whether or not other big photo sharing sites, specifically Photobucket, WebShots, and Kodak … Read More “Geotagging the Also Rans” »
I found this via my brother Stephen’s Tumblr account – an application that analyzes the readability level of various blogs and websites. My Master’s degree is in Reading Instruction, so I’ve spent a good bit of time studying readability levels and lexile scores for text. I’m actually quite please with this outcome for RandomConnections… I … Read More “Readability Level” »
The placement of the Chic-fil-a cows was truly unfortunate.