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So much for cloud computing

Cloud services are convenient and powerful, but the mail, video, photos, audio, and documents we upload to them and the metadata we add to what we upload are hostage to the fortunes and whims of the provider companies. So here's another illustration of the risks of trusting your important data...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 16, 2011 6:16 PM

"If you can type, you can make movies"

A cool web app at xtranormal.com lets you take a script, assign it to a character, voice, and setting, and have the Lego-like character read it. For a test, I had this Australian fellow with the cowboy hat read the North Carolina guidebook excerpt about the Self-Kick-in-the-Pants machine from the...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 6, 2009 11:42 PM

Published photographer: <em>Amazing and Unusual USA</em>

Since I started writing for Urban Tulsa Weekly, I've had a few photos and graphics published in the paper -- Lady Belvedere, the Statehood Centennial parade in Guthrie, PLANiTULSA workshops, along with some I took to illustrate one of my columns. But today for the first time I got to...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 23, 2009 10:05 PM