Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Connected to my pc...

My idea was to buy a Bluetooth headset and use it with both my Motorola phone and the voip program, Skype, thats on my laptop. The problem is that the built-in Bluetooth stack in Windows Xp SP2 does not support Bluetooth headsets. Fortunately Broadcom provides a Bluetooth stack of their own, located at: http://www.broadcom.com/products/bluetooth_update.php, which allows you to use these Bluetooth headsets as you would any wired headsets. I downloaded the executable file, double-clicked it, and, followed the instruction, and it works. Additional instructions on installing the driver and an overview of the technology can be found on this site: http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/07/05/bluetooth.html?page=1.
note: When I downloaded the file,I simple double-clicked the executable from the location where I saved it.

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Regilous abandonment...

This is a picture of the Anglican church thats on Church street in St. George's Grenada. This is the inside the church. That puddle of water is inside the church. If you look closely you will notice that in the far corner there is a setup which I would assume is being used to keep service. The benches on that side still have not faded, there are fresh flowers on what seems to be an pulpit, and you can notice some sort of fabric covering the table. The European churches in St. George's are the only indications that Ivan ever passed. The three main churches; the one on church street, the one by Convent high school, and the one by the Hospital, all are missing their roofs. One would think that the multi-million dollar European churches would be the first to open their pockets to get their congregation back on their feet. They must have concluded that it was useless to get slaves into heaven.

Sticky fingers...

If you look closely, you would notice that the bike is chained to the post in the middle of the car. The owner is the guy on the left of the image with his legs crossed. I guess that people in New York would steal your stuff right in front of you. This was on the A train to Manhattan.

Terror land...

There were several fires at the JFK airport. They could have been deliberately started. No one seems to be concerned that a particular part of the airport was catching on fire every five to ten minutes. That said, I waited for four to five hours before boarding a TWA flight and then we spent about one and a half hours before the plan was cleared for takeoff. I will never complain about LIAT again.

50 cents movies...

This appears to be a bullet hole in the elevator door. This elevator is on the first floor of the AMC Empire 25 (at 234 West) 42nd Street in Manhattan. This gives new meaning to "two thumbs down". The main question is, was this before or after they asked for a refund?
We waited approximately five minutes for the elevator.
They too might have gotten tied waiting for the elevator and just "bust a cap in it's ass". In the elevator there was a guy checking tickets. When we got out the elevator our tickets were checked again. I am happy that they are hiring two people to do the same job, but nuff with the checking. After the movie, we were told that we have to take a different path to get out. Now I have no issue with that, however, they did not provide an elevator for someone who uses a wheelchair or baby carage. The escalator, to get out, is just wide enough to fit your two feet side by side. We now had to walk all the way to the other side on the cinema just to get to the only set of elevators. The elevator arrived and my cousin with her baby squeezed her way on. I decided to wait for the next one. After what felt like forever, I gave up and headed off on the long trek to the other side to the narrow escalator, as I started walking away I felt like "busting a cap in it's ass".

Monday, July 2, 2007

Hanging out...

I have noticed that people in lower Manhattan, particularly around Union Square, are just hanging out all hours of the night. This is something I have never noticed before. It's an interesting phenomenon. In the past people in New York have not had any problem standing on the street corner just hanging out, however, I have never seen it at this scale before.

Welcome


This page will be used to showoff my pictures to friends and family. In the future this may change. Currently, I am in New York. As is evident by the banner image, I am experimenting with long exposures. I am not using a tripod. I will try to get a tripod to create more crisp images with the long exposures. the idea is that the static objects should be sharp. I took some long exposure pictures of the roller-dancers at central park, some of the images came out ok. I would like to redo those pictures using a tripod. I find the idea of using photographs to indicate movement very exciting. My objective is to create two or three images which I can frame.