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Photography: Why I stayed with Minolta (now Sony)
After I posted my CBC blog entry on the new Sony Alpha 700, a couple of friends asked me why I stuck with Minolta when everyone else was working with Canon or Nikon digital single lens reflex...
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A River Kwai story picked up by Doubleday Book Club in Australia
A River Kwai Story has been picked up by the Doubleday Book Clubs in Australia.Link to Doubleday Book Clubs in Australia.
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Blackwater:civilian contractors were prosecuted after WWII
Although many legal experts who have been discussing the case of Blackwater USA, the private contractor now being investigated for a shootout in Baghdad, say private contractors are in legal limbo,...
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A big cross border camera rip off
At this moment the Canadian dollar has fallen back even with the United States dollar.One US greenback may no longer be worth $1.10 Cdn, as it was when a friend of mine was up from New York a couple of...
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A River Kwai Story progress report
A brief pre-Christmas progress report on A River Kwai Story The Sonkrai Tribunal.I spent the first couple of weeks of December going through what were once called (and perhaps still are in some ways)...
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Kwai, Afghanistan links
A couple of quick links.Front LineAn audio slideshow for CBC.ca with photographs from a forward operating base in Afghanistan by award winning photographer Louie Palu. Front LinePhotography and audio...
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My microcareer in videogames
When you've got a book coming out you Google yourself a little more frequently just to see what's happening out there.That's how I found out today that my very brief career in videogames actually...
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Kwai, photography updates
A couple of updates:Promotion for A River Kwai Story, from my agent Waterside Productions.Australian publishers Allan and Unwin will reveal the long-held secrets of the River Kwai Story in their April...
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John McCain on Japanese waterboarding
Senator John McCain, the Republican candidate for president of the United States surprised me again tonight when he appeared on 60 Minutes and mentioned to interviewer Scott Pelley about how the...
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A River Kwai Story published, available online
A River Kwai Story: The Sonkrai Tribunal was officially published on April 4, 2008 by Allan and Uwin in Australia. The publisher is distributing the book in Australia, New Zealand and parts of the...
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Garret e-mail box disabled
The e-mail address for this blog garretATrobinrowland.com has been disabled after it was taken over by spammers. I have received very little legitimate e-mail for this box since the end of the lockout,...
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The David Lean Anniversary Conference
This year, 2008, as we've all heard from the superheated publicity, is the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of author Ian Fleming.The fact that 2008 is also the one hundredth anniversary of the...
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The newscutter
For me the most fascinating talk at the David Lean Conference at Queen Mary University in London last last month (where I was speaking on The Bridge on the River Kwai) was by Linda Kaye, a senior...
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Sony launches the Alpha 900
I covered the Toronto launch of the Sony Alpha 900 today Tuesday, Sept. 9. 2008.*24.6 megapixel full frame sensor* 5 frames per second capacity, recording capacity at continuous 11 images at raw 105 at...
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Financial meltdown reaches the sun. Is Earth doomed?
Click on image for full size view.(If the sun lost 15 per cent of its power, there would be another ice age)When a computer becomes a photo editor.From Google News, approximately 1100 ET Nov. 14, 2008
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You can be replaced—by a Meccano set
You can be replaced—by a Meccano set. The 2009 version of that Meccano set (Erector set in the US) you got under the Christmas tree as a kid.Professional photographers are, to use the football term,...
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Aviation history in an old envelope
DHC-2 Beaver at Ootsa Lake, B.C. 1951-52A couple of weeks ago, I was going through old family pictures. There were baby pictures of me among the prints from that roll. Since I am planning to return to...
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The pre-Twitter tweets from The Economist
It has been said so many times, "it came before its time."More than a quarter century ago, the staid old Economist invented Tweeting. Of course, only a handful of people noticed (and I'm sure The...
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The Amazon Cluster Fark : The Return of the Jedi-Author
As I write this, Amazon has not yet explained what it calls the “glitch” that saw books with gay, lesbian, feminist and similar content delisted from best sellers and sales ranking over the Easter...
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Amazon situation updates
A few updates on the Amazon post.My CBC colleague John Bowman posted a wrap up the Amazon situation in his Blogwatch column for April 14.Although reports make it clear that Amazon e-mailed a news...
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