Commentary

It’s been a week since we said goodbye to my mother, and I’m coming to the end of a short period of rest and reflection in Madrid.  I wanted to do three more things related to her passing.  The first is to thank all those who via this site, or Facebook, or directly, sent their…

In something of a surprising turn of events, I have managed to get quite a few things done this last week.  Notably, a new web site, for deeply technical photography matters, and a new portfolio page for my photographs.  Both of these have new and unique domain names.  Somebody stop me! Firstly the new web…

Another fine if freezing day, this time in Paris, after which I feel fully arted, very pogged, and once more chilled to the marrow. I spent the morning at the Winogrand show, the afternoon at the Muse D’Orsay, the evening stuffing my face, and the interstices taking photographs such as that above, in and around…

I had a great, almost charmed life as an IBM executive.  One of the things I don’t miss about the company though was the requirement at around this time of year to convey my “excitement at the challenges ahead” to the troops at the new year kick-off meeting.  For the English, a public display of…

The Guardian in the last month has confirmed more or less everything I wrote back in June on Prism/Boundless intrusion.  It’s true, tthe NSA/GCHQ are seeing everything.   It’s not clear whether today’s revelations show that Snowden is still releasing information after his temporary asylum into Russia or whether it was done before he left…