Personal Technology Coaching
A Photoshop tutorial on Making Your Own Passport Photos, found via LifeHacker. The State Department has specific guidelines for photographers too. Should I post a copy of my passport photo here?
More romanticism about Paris from the New York Times. Paris at night has the irrational power to trigger the imaginations of even ordinary folks. There are always Parisians who leave open the window shutters of their living rooms, allowing passersby to peek inside. The often high ceilings and tall windows offer glimpses of crystal chandeliers … Read more
Nice find, this: Language Courses from the U.S. Foreign Service, including text and audio files free for the download; apparently in the public domain, having been produced with American taxpayer dollars.
Seems we may be going to Paris in March of next year. Oh my. There will definitely be more on this to come.
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In Paris, a Feast of Art and History, in Bite-Size Pieces – New York Times A look at small museums in Paris.
Ask the Readers: Cheap airline tickets? – Lifehacker Can’t have enough information on how to find low prices on air fares.
Photos de Paris, ville lumière “Photos of Pairs, City of Light” – high-resolution 360º panorama images of Paris at night. They’re only just beautiful. I want to go.
I really look forward to a trip to Affordable Europe. I hope these links will still work when we’re doing our planning. I hope the price of jet fuel doesn’t keep going up. I hope Delta will still honor frequent flier miles for trips to Europe. I just keep hoping.
As promised yesterday, Argentina On Two Steaks A Day, from painter and programmer Maciej Ceglowski’s Idle Words blog (“brevity is for the weak”), via Making Light, one of the net’s uberblogs. I’ll use the same pull-quote they did, which opens the piece: *The classic beginner’s mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of … Read more