Canadian Street Photographer Michael Ernest Sweet shares his thoughts about Twitter’s photography community and 10 Twitter accounts you might find interesting.

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What can we expect in the new soon-to-be-released Ricoh GR Digital camera? Canadian street photographer Michael Ernest Sweet, who uses Ricoh cameras exclusively, weighs in on what we might see and when.

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 This is a guest article by Frank. Google, possibly more than any other corporation, become seemingly aware of the fact that information is power. Using many different vectors, Google collects information about the Internet, about countless Internet trends, and information about YOU, its users. Just how much do the Google information-gathering channels capture about you [...]

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The tech press is alive with rumors that Microsoft have a major update to the train wreck named Windows 8. Windows 8 has not captured the imagination of the masses as was expected. I personally think it is clunky and ugly. Our friends at Microsoft have a long history of clunky and ugly. Win 98 [...]

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Welcome to the First Virtual Church of Our Lord and Savior, Steve Jobs. As you enter the sanctuary, please do not make eye contact with anyone. Keep your eyes focused on the screen of the mobile device of your choice. We are relevant and practice diversity here, which is easy since no one will even [...]

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“You oughta get better locks around here if you don’t want people taking your private information, Mr. Squirl. It’s up to you to do something preventive….” “Mr. Mercer, I’m Jack Squirl, President of Data Miner Servicing, y’ know, ‘Servicing You With a Smile.’ Our security guard detained you one hour ago, and we are holding [...]

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We read about one incident of a lunatic shooting people in a theater, a lunatic shooting people at a school, a lunatic crashing jetliners into skyscrapers. Then we conclude that all strangers are lunatics, too dangerous to connect with. So we stay alone, unconnected, and slowly we become a nation of benign lunatics.    I see [...]

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For decades Kodak was the world leader in both consumer and professional film. Basically anywhere a photographer could find themselves they could also find a fresh supply of Kodak 35mm film. That was one of the companies biggest claims to fame. It was also, due to a large brick and mortar network, part of their [...]

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A few days ago I wrote a rather cynical op-ed piece about my personal experience with the company, you can find it here. I had said my piece, and moved on other projects. DirecTV is a large organization, as of 2010 it had over 19 million subscribers. This makes them a very serious player in [...]

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Pretty much when I have had enough of the day, I tell my wife that I am going to go watch bombs! That signals that I can’t stomach another rerun of The Golden Girls, or Married With Children. I will go watch whatever is on the History Channel or Discovery. Unfortunately both channels have run [...]

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Of course that is easier said than done, there was only one WITCH ever built. It was 61 years ago that the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell saw its debut. While today the manufactures aim for compactness, speed, and agility, the WITCH boasted none of the above! It was instead a 2 ½ [...]

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If I am voting against the President, it is not racism but because he is going out of his way to persecute the Catholic church: The problem? The week after taking office, the President removed conscience rights regulations from the federal regulations. This means that the only thing standing between Catholics and Muslims from being [...]

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There is little doubt that the folks in Redmond are as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs over Windows 8. Will it be the big hit that Windows 95 was, or the disaster that they faced with Windows ME? Either way, win or lose, Microsoft and Intel have [...]

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The political hit job movie,  2016: Obama’s America is now out in DVD which means I got to see it. Film Summary: President Obama is trying to please his Marxist/anti-colonial father by remaking America to punish her sins, and that is why the US is going to hell. No, it’s not quite that bad, but [...]

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T-Mobile has been making a lot of noise lately in the mobile market. First, they brought back an unlimited data plan, something that has become somewhat of a dinosaur for mobile service providers. Next, a few weeks ago T-Mobile merged with Metro PCS to expand it’s share of the market and to become a more [...]

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The puzzle of the Libyan attack cover-up is why the White House tried to distract the mainstream media and rewrite the attack as a “spontaneous demonstrations”. We were told over and over again that this incident started as a protest against B porno flick that someone poorly overdubbed in Arabic and placed on youtube a [...]

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Google Trends is not a part of Google that most people have even heard of, never mind use. I can’t say that I was a big user, but it was an interesting little diversion. It provided a list of the top searches. Of course it was hours out of date, but it provided a great [...]

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WOT – Web Of Trust (or not)? I have been around the web for many years. It can be a dangerous place. Click on the wrong thing, and WHAP, now you have nasty little critters called Viruses running amok on your computer. These nasty digital critters can cause huge amounts of harm, they can steal [...]

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Everything in the news seems to be hyperventillation about politics.  What is worse, it seems to be about trivia that have little or nothing to do with the world wide economic problems, or about trying to fix them. (e.g. a friend on facebook dissing Ryan’s marathon speed instead of the details of his budget). So [...]

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Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace recently experienced a glitch with the security of its apps, and will put a temporary halt on the production and download of new apps. The site’s security is what is ultimately to blame for the issue with the app store, and Microsoft is quick at work to find the fix. Fortunately, [...]

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Computers have become a taken for granted part of our everyday world. They are on our desks, they are in our phones, our cars and even our TV’s. But what works on our desk is not a good fit in space. It is a hostile environment, and it is pretty difficult to respond to a [...]

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Being completely ticked off with NBC’s TV coverage, my rant is here. I decided that it was time to move to the Internet coverage, this supposedly was live. Of course there are a couple of Olympic ‘hoops’ that you need to jump through. For reasons that only the brain the size of a Peacocks (not [...]

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Microsoft has hits and misses, but all companies do. Fortunately most of the ‘what on earth were they thinking’ Falls on the shoulders of few people. Personally I like the 70’s Pacer and Gremlin cars. They are uniquely ugly, impractical, and a real head turner. Who could not love these Ugly Ducklings? Software is a [...]

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I’ve always been a little nervous of those elevators where you have to manually open the door. They creep me out. But, it was nearly one hundred degrees and Gramercy Typewriter was on four. In the end, I would take the elevator. And, I’d end up with a newly refurbished Olivetti Lettera 22. In this [...]

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There are all sorts of web sites dedicated to wiping out spam online. Web Spam has become a huge problem, no one likes it, no one likes being duped. In fact Google makes a big thing about Web Spam.So big it even has a whole team dedicated to the removal of it, headed up by [...]

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This report from an Iranian blog on Global Voices, says they have such a chicken shortage the price of .chickens have soared. So someone decided to censor films and TV programs that show…chickens (!) Against a backdrop of lengthening food queues, Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam, the head of Iran’s law enforcement forces, has warned that films depicting [...]

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Daido Moriyama used the 35mm version, colleagues Paul Giguere and Markus Hartel use it in its digital form, all agree it was made for the streets. It’s made by Ricoh and it goes by the initials GR. As a street photographer, there are few cameras that are as legendary to me as the Ricoh GR [...]

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This is a hotly contended issue. I am of the side that says that if you legally own a gadget, widget, or whatever, you should have control over it. If I decide that I am fed up with my iPad I should be able to convert it into a vibrating back massager. Sure, it would [...]

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I have lost count of the number of articles I have read on the subject. While Google says little ‘on the record’ the unofficial spokesman Matt Cutts seems to be the conduit used by the company to explain their position. They want to remain a neutral entity, ensuring that all of the results returned to [...]

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I (thankfully) am no longer involved in the sharp end of the computer world. These days I sit and giggle from the sidelines. Computer fads come and go, and for the most part they just ‘go’. Something better arrives the next week and we all move on. Much like life the constitution the computer industry [...]

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