"Balcony House", Mesa Verde NP

We toured Balcony House on our Oct 3 visit to Mesa Verde National Park.

"Delicate Arch", Utah

Pics from our Oct 2 hike to "Delicate Arch", in Arches National Park, Utah.  It's a 3 mile hike to the arch.

Tombstone Rock, Moab

Pics from a camping trip to Tombstone Rock, in Moab, UT.

A clever (but slow) way to "see" wifi signals.

This project explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs.

A four-metre long measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting.

Server issues

My web server and email server had a bunch of issues this weekend. I think everything has been successfully restored. Please let me know if you see anything missing on my website. Also, if you sent me a critical email this weekend, please re-send it.

Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"

Google, Facebook, and others are trying to be helpful, and show content that is customized just for you. But this can trap you in a "filter bubble". Information used to be filtered by mass-media gatekeepers like newspapers & television, and was also filtered by where you lived. Is the automatic personalization and customization by Google, Facebook, and others any better than the old filtering?

Garden of the Gods

We visited Garden of the Gods this weekend.