I Love Cynics!

I have to admit, the focus of this book review is very very narrow. However, with the recent release of the Nikon D80, the price of older models has dropped enormously. If you are in the market for a digital SLR, but are low on cash, looking to these older models might be a wise […]

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I don’t often talk about my job. That’s because bad things can happen to those that do.
However, I’ve just had an enjoyable week meeting representatives of electric cooperatives around the country and wish to share my thoughts on the recent Region 9 meeting of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) which I participated in. […]

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Scientific consensus, particularly when it comes to global warming, is a much misunderstood and often misrepresented term. At it’s simplest, the term means that through a process of experimentation and peer review a scientific concept has been accepted, without any substantial doubt, by the scientific community.
This happens to be the case for global warming, where […]

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Finally, after months of slow tinkering and scrapping design after design, Urban Raven Photo is online.
Urban Raven Photo is my stock/Alaskan photography web site. It’s a simple three page layout at the moment. Would love to hear comments pro or con about the design. It will grow as business grows, I’m sure. If I ever […]

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That was a phrase I heard this weekend. Wish I could remember where, so I could attribute it to whoever said it. It brought me back to the argument of religion vs. science, though I don’t think that was what was being discussed when the phrase was uttered.
I take a lot of flack from people […]

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Since damn near every other Alaska related blog will be covering this comedy I think I’ll ramble on about something else today.
Specifically, the slow buildup of my photo business.
Sometime back I posted about how I’d gotten into something called Microstock Photography. Briefly defined, microstock is a method of selling stock photography at very low prices […]

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