Microsoft apologizes for changing race in photo – How I feel about it!

 

A photo on the Redmond-based company’s U.S. marketing Web site microsoft.com shows two men, one Asian and one black, and a white woman seated at a conference room table. But on the Web site of Microsoft’s Polish business unit, the black man’s head has been replaced with that of a white man. The color of his hand remains unchanged.

Microsoft apologizes for changing race in photo – Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com

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Sports Shooting Tips

Well, had a pretty busy weekend now that I’ve started shooting youth sports again.  This time it’s soccer even though I wouldn’t mind shooting football again since that’s where I’ve gotten a lot of my portfolio worthy shots.  But I figured that I while I’m exporting the first game’s photos, that I would write up a quick blog entry since I got Lightroom just about maxed out.  Quad core CPU, 4 gigs of ram and I can still make a pc cry for mercy. 

Well, anyway, there’s a few things that I’ve learned or “relearned” about shooting youth sports.  Especially soccer, since you will end up taking a LOT more shots than other youth sports due to the constant action.  For those that don’t understand or dabble too much in photography, I’m sorry if this seems a bit “geeked” out for you, but I figured this would be good info.  So here we go.

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An interesting fact about skin tone

I thought of this while I was reading through Sophia’s latest entry.  I figured that this would be a good chance to test out and demonstrate the trackback feature on her blog.

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http://www.oisso.com/2009/08/18/get-your-vitamin-d/

Here’s some interesting info that I found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skin_color that related to vitamin D.

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