About a year ago, my brother-in-law — who is an amateur photographer – gave my husband and I his old professional-grade DSLR camera.  Since then, I’ve been learning how to use the manual settings.  Trust me, it’s harder than it looks.
In fact, for certain things I have found it is better just to go back to [...]

During the discussions that PK has been involved with around the National Broadband Plan, video has been a reoccurring theme. Everyone seems to agree that the next big thing to drive broadband (adoption, speeds, capacity, whatever) is the delivery of video over the internet. Someone will point to Netflix streaming, to Hulu, to Amazon, to [...]

Last night I was eating dinner with a group of friends. I mentioned that I would love to own a boat. A good friend’s husband told me that he knew where we could get one for free. Apparently a friend of his has a boat he loves that he can’t use anymore for various reasons. [...]

Connected Nation, the big-telecom and cable front group, has won a lucrative broadband mapping contract in Florida by buying off the company that protested CN getting the contract.
When we last left Connected Nation near the end of August, the big-telecom and cable front group had won a big contract for the state of Florida, despite [...]

A national battle is heating up between proponents of drinking raw milk for health benefits and food safety advocates such as the Food and Drug Administration.
Drinkers of raw, or unpasteurized, milk say it tastes better, helps with digestive problems and boosts immunity. The FDA warns the milk is “inherently dangerous.” It can be a host [...]