Feb 052013
 
Protecting the Bank

August, 2004.  When the Republican Convention came to town the manhole covers were taped down against explosions.  The maps with important places to protect were flashed on screens.  It was before Twitter.  Before Smart Phones.  Before the widespread use of drones. But there was still this Orwellian feeling in the air.  It almost always feels like that in New York post 9-11 when there are large gatherings for any purpose. We may have taken out [more]

Feb 022013
 
Sharing Buds

We had transistor radios.  And we had a single ear plug.  Music came in what we'd now call a sequential way depending on what the music programmer decided.  What they called Disc Jockeys. From the Disk Jockey's point of view – he lived in a semi-sequential world.  He was the robot arm, and the order of the playlist was – at least in the early days – left to the Disk Jockey. Later on, advertisers [more]

Feb 242012
 

Some notes from my blog about social networking and sales. Embedded Link What I learned About Social Networking About five months ago, I signed up with G+ and as is my habit, fell in love with it.  Within a few months I was watching the number of people who had me | What I learned About Social Networking Google+: Reshared 1 times Google+: View post on Google+

Feb 242012
 
Cedar Hill and Fifth Avenue in Snow

And here's the $10 link to a 4000 x 6000 pixel file.http://www.beckermanphoto.com/cedar-hill-and-fifth-ave-color.htmlAnd with that – I take my leave for the day. I think this one would look good in a large digital frame. Google+: Reshared 5 times Google+: View post on Google+

Feb 232012
 
Man, my eyes are going

So far two days spent adding images to be downloaded, one by one. Using a WordPress plugin called Digi-shop. Nothing really wrong with it. Does what it's supposed to do, but it's not the easiest thing to manage. For example, I think that if I want to make a global price change I'm going to have to do it in the database with a sql statement. Well, who knows. But right now this one appeals [more]