Polaroid Gallery v.1.01

I came across this and thought it was cool:
Polaroid Gallery v.1.01. Developed by Christopher Einarsrud.

Each virtual polaroid can be moved and, if you double click on it, gets larger for a better look.

It seems like a fun and interesting way to display pictures in your portfolio.

Frank Incites Murder in the Philippines

Okay, it's a little racy of a title, but I was hunting around for one-day story ideas since my falconer is now vacillating and backpedaling. He isn't sure because his habit isn't up to snuff... I groan.

So, any way, while hunting, I came across this article:
Sinatra song often strikes a deadly chord

Apparently, in the Philippines, karaoke singers get so riled up during the singing of "My Way" that they've gotten in fights and stabbed each other. "The authorities do not know exactly how many people have been killed warbling “My Way” in karaoke bars over the years in the Philippines, or how many fatal fights it has fueled. But the news media have recorded at least half a dozen victims in the past decade and includes them in a subcategory of crime dubbed the “My Way Killings.”"

Jes Aznar for The New York Times
Rodolfo Gregorio, right, at a General Santos karaoke bar. Filipinos, who pride themselves on their singing, may have a lower tolerance for bad singers.

My Future Professional Website

As EPJ is progressing, I will be working on my professional website. This week, we were charged with creating its front page. I don't know if I'm going to stick with what I've got, but I like it for now.

It was very frustrating, though. I accidentally named my cascading style sheet with a capital letter (Stylesheet.css), but in coding my webpages, I called it by a lower case letter (stylesheet.css). So, my
specifications for the font color and my background color weren't taking. I did finally realize my mistake after over an hour of coding and recoding, etc. And being very befuddled...

Pictures for a Textbook are My Copyright

My friend, Paul Bolls, has been working on a book, for what seems like forever, and I was recruited to take pictures for its illustrations.

Because they will be used in a publication in the somewhat near future, I decided to send them in to the Copyright Office so that I could control how my images are used. I'm in the process of investigating what type of licensing the publisher is planning on using.

I'm really glad that I'm taking this Business Planning class. (Thanks, Jackie!) It has already given me a lot to think about and it's only the third week of class... I wouldn't have even thought about the licensing before the semester started.

I thought I would include a few outtakes.

Obviously, we didn't use this one, but at least you know what I was wearing the day I was taking pictures.

Negotiating the glass so as to not have a reflection.

Henryk Ross

If you've never heard of him, he was photographer who documented life in the Polish ghetto of Lodz between 1940 and 1945. He was appointed the Jewish Council's official photographer for the Department of Statistics.

In 1987, Ross wrote:

"Having an official camera, I was secretly able to photograph the life of the Jews in the ghetto. Just before the closure of the ghetto in 1944 I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some record of our tragedy, namely the total elimination of the Jews from Lodz by the Nazi executioners. I was anticipating the total destruction of Polish Jewry. I wanted to leave a historical record of our martyrdom."