Archive for 2009
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
This post is available as a PDF file here: http://www.hackneys.com/docs/theystillcant.pdf
30 December 2009
In August of 2002 I endured a personal challenge. At the time, I was sitting on a bar stool at a friend’s house in my Iowa home town listening to a classmate prattle on about 9/11 and all of ...
Posted in Geopolitics, Sci / Tech, US Politics | 10 Comments »
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Back in 2004 I wrote a holiday message about our Christmas tree titled The Seekers.
It turned out to be one of the most popular essays of that era.
We put up a Christmas tree last week for the first time since then. It was amazing to realize it had been five years since we'd either ...
Posted in Cultures, Religion, Travel | 1 Comment »
Monday, December 21st, 2009
This essay is available in PDF form here: http://www.hackneys.com/docs/myworldview.pdf
“Your world view is, well, wrong.”
Those were the last words I ever heard from a guy I’d been friends with for more than 30 years.
That was back in late 2004. At the time, I was sitting in Beijing, China, and had recently ...
Posted in Cultures, Geopolitics, Outside the Fishbowl, US Politics | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Seven months and seven days ago, I asked some friends and relatives for input on smartphones, specifically iPhone vs. Blackberry.
Not seeing any need to rush into this, I took my time before committing. I especially felt there was no need to rush into this since when you’ve been away for a ...
Posted in Business, Gear, Sci / Tech | No Comments »
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama presented his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo, Norway, earlier today.
The headline you will read in the mass media regarding the speech will likely be some variation of “Obama defends US wars as he accepts peace prize.”
The press will be doing its self-anointed job of ...
Posted in Geopolitics, US Politics | 6 Comments »
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
In traveling through 43 countries across six continents, we’ve seen quite a few ancient stadiums. From Rome’s definitive Coliseum to lesser known examples scattered around the world, we’ve explored many.
All share a sense of grandeur that matches the contests staged there, and as you wander about the stones, if you ...
Posted in Cultures, Travel | 8 Comments »
Friday, November 20th, 2009
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is probably best known as the birthplace of the world wide web, CERN being the then employer of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of HTML, the markup language used to create web pages. Less known, at least outside Europe and physics nerd circles, is that CERN is also home ...
Posted in Sci / Tech | No Comments »
Friday, October 30th, 2009
I'm going to admit this right up front: I'm terrible at marketing myself.
Even though I get paid very well by others for consulting services advising them how to market themselves, and that advice has been very successful, I'm not good at applying those techniques and strategies to myself.
Not a small part of ...
Posted in Media | No Comments »
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Back in March, I posted a series on Health Care Reform:
Thoughts on Health Care Reform
Health Care Reform FAQ
Health Care Reform: The Options
Health Care Reform: The Cost Drivers – One Academic’s View
Health Care Reform: $2.4 Trillion and $85.6 Trillion
My goal was to lay a foundation of impartial information before the hyper-partisan media, parties, ...
Posted in health care reform, US Politics | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
S90 Information:
August 19, 2009 Canon USA Press Powershot line press release: http://www.usa.canon.com/templatedata/pressrelease/20090819_powershot.html
August 19, 2009 Canon UK S90 press release: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0908/09081907canons90.asp#press
Canon USA S90 site: http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=223&modelid=19210
DP Review S90 brief hands on: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0908/09081906canons90handson.asp
Evaluation Context: Overlanding / Expedition use
Purpose of this evaluation: Provide initial impressions and testing results of the S90 compared to other ...
Posted in Photography, Travel | 4 Comments »
