While getting myself ready for Halloween, I started to reread Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, a story about two young friends and the terrifying adventure they have when a magical carnival comes to town. What keeps me reading is the humanity of the characters and the way Bradbury deals with life, death, youth and old age.

There’s no excuse for my behavior. I could claim it’s a sickness, but if I don’t admit that I have a problem, I’ll never be able to get better.

If you looked at my LinkedIn profile, you’d see that I am an “Itinerant Pastor” – fancy speak for somebody who preaches without having a church – a fact which might seem strange to the people I work with.

One thing I love about literature is the way words bring out pictures in our mind that our eyes could never see or make sense of. For my birthday, Amy got me a copy of Hyperion by Dan Simmons, a futuristic Canterbury Tales set in a universe so utterly foreign that it took me [...]

This morning, while booting up Firefox, I noticed that PicLens is now Cooliris, Inc. What do you think of the update?

Ever since we decided this week’s Flickr Challenge would be “Getting in Close: Nature,” I was excited.  I’m one of those people that just love hazy, out of focus shots of the edge of a rock or a flower or a waterfall… anything that captures my imagination and reminds me of how I experience the [...]

As we finished our weekly editorial meetings last night I knew we were gearing up for a great week. As a very interested but very amateur photographer (the perfect position for an editor who has to read every post before it goes online) I look forward to every tip, trick, hack and insight that sheds a little light on how the pros get their work done…

So I finally got my photos off of the SD card in the Nikon camera and I’ve decided this whole sharing a camera thing just doesn’t work. Then I remember that before the DSLR there was the Canon point-and-shoot that seemed to work so well for years. Why not just use that [...]