Twitter Map You’re about to go on vacation.  Finally, no more work.  No more responsibilities.  You’re excited to get away and you want to rub your friend’s noses in it.  Without a thought, you pick up your phone and send out a Tweet.  “Kiss off, suckers.  I’m on my way to the beach!”  You probably didn’t even pay...

There are a lot of things to love about the Internet. You can find people with similar interests and shrink the geographic boundaries between you, allowing people from around the world to communicate. On the other hand, you can also find an amazing amount of information about people if you give it a thought. That’s why many people fear providing their real...

I originally posted article this on the Orlando Sentinel’s Sanford Community blog: Fear and ignorance. If you don’t understand something, it must be evil and sinister. Fear and ignorance. What better place to teach this system than in Seminole County Schools? The problem was clear. Kids only have a limited amount of time to go through the lunch line...

Tonight, I went out to CityWalk as part of the Microsoft Tech-Ed conference in town this week. They reserved The Groove for jam sessions. I decided this year I’d rather shoot than play, so I packed up my D200 and a couple of lenses. Universal Studios Orlando has a bag check before you enter CityWalk, and I have no problem with that. Disney does the same thing....

Most parts of India already banned the motion picture release of The Da Vinci Code. Next, Pakistan banned the film. I just read that Egyptian authorities seized 2,000 illegal DVD’s of the film, and that Coptic Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt’s largest church, praised the police action and urged the government to bar the film, saying it could spread...