Monthly Archives: August 2007

Friday Footprint: Offset Your Book Purchases

Every year approximately 20 million trees are cut down for the creation of books in the United States alone. This is a very significant number and if you read my post about and visited the World Clock website, you can see that forest destruction more than doubles forest plantation. What does this mean? A massive [...]

The Global Machine: Check out World Clock

I was given a link via an email to a super-cool World Clock that approximates various happenings around the world. This clock not only calculates deaths and births by the second like most clocks of this nature, it also tells you the causes of death, monitors the environment, and gives other interesting statistics.
The clock runs [...]

One Small Step for the Travel Industry, One Giant Leap towards Fulfilling a Life Goal

One of my life goals is to travel into space. I made that decision during my childhood (actually my initial goal was to go to the moon, but space will do) back when consumer space travel wasn’t even on the radar. It looks like the possibility of my dream coming true just got better as [...]

The Dog’gone Beach

Yesterday we made our way up to Pinery Provincial Park to take Rita’s “nephew” Koby to the beach. Koby, is a dog. I thought I would clear that up for those who don’t apply human terms to animal pets ;). Anyway, yesterday was a civic holiday for many people and a nice day to laze [...]

Giving Insight

I hardly ever look at–let alone read–chain letters, but this piece by George Carlin is very insightful and worth the read. When I read it on my friend Danielle’s Facebook account I knew I had to post it for others to read. Here it is…
Giving Insight
The paradox of our time in history is that we [...]

London Balloon Fest 2007

This weekend London is holding their 25th annual balloon festival in Harris Park. I decided to head down yesterday afternoon and get some shots of the event. As it turns out, the sun was blaring and didn’t really allow for great pictures. The bright, bleaching sun along with the dust flying around meant that this [...]

“Recent Additions” Section Added to Gallery

I’ve gotten a few complaints that my gallery is too hard to navigate. I take part of the blame for this since I love to organize things in numerous sub-folders. Although this system works well for me, it seems to be hard to navigate for others. To make things a little easier for those browsing [...]

Backyard Photo Shoot

This evening (well, it would technically be yesterday evening) I headed out to the backyard for a macro photo shoot. Basically, macro shots are ones where your subject is magnified. I’m pleased with the results of this set much more than my previous attempt because the depth of field and colours came out much nicer. [...]

Friday Footprint: Motivate Yourself With a Green Movie

Trying to be eco-friendly can be a daunting task. When witnessing all that is wrong with the world today it is hard to stay positive and on track with your goals of coming closer to sustainability and lowering your carbon footprint. I’m sure you often get the sinking feeling of, “what can I, as one [...]

6 Reasons to Track Your Finances

Let me start off by saying that I am by no means the perfect example of a financially stable individual. As a student who loves to buy new toys (see My Camera) I often find myself splurging when I should be saving. However, I am one step closer to managing my money properly. Last night [...]