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• 1961 Vietnam Tourism Brochure

  

  Perusing Twitter I stumbled across a link to this travel brochure about Vietnam, written primarily for the American audience in 1961. It was initially fascinating to see how the city of Saigon was starting to develop, thanks to French influences, but as I read further a sense of sadness and disappointment took over. Heavily represented is hunting.

• Notice: Moving from Flickr to SmugMug

  

  I’ve been happily using Flickr for years, but due to the lack of inertia from Yahoo in maintaining and improving it, I’ve decided it’s time to find something better. I’ve moved to SmugMug because it integrates better with Lightroom, has a lot more flexibility in how I present my site, and is less likely to disappear when/if

• This time last year

  

  It’s been a year since these snapshots were uploaded to Flickr, and it’s interesting to see that not a lot has changed. Photo jojo’s Photo Time Capsule November 25th to December 9th, 2011 A selection of your most interesting photos from one year ago. What I’m doing while you’re hobnobbing Taken November 25, 2011 at 8:52 pm     If it’s too

• Quirky kids

  

  The latest in high school humour comes from a couple of likely types in my Grade 8 and 9 ICT classes. Teacher, would you like to drink from my toilet? Um, thanks for the thought but I think I’ll pass. Teacher I brought my cellphone to school today! Ah, great to see signs of progress in Vietnam.

• Planning the rest of my life

  

  Looking for interesting ways of teaching date and time functions, along with formatting numbers, I decided to occupy myself in a more useful manner. I’ve always wondered how I could possibly read the nearly 10,000 books currently sitting in my ebook collection. Today we were talking about how many days, hours and minutes we’ve been on this