Travelling: The beauty of Honduras

Travelling: Beauty of Honduras

With the latest problems in Honduras it’s easy to forget about a very important part of the country, the tourism.

It is indeed one of the poorest countries in the region and South America but it’s plenty covered with beautiful spots all over the country. I would like to invite you guys to explore with me the beauty of the country and the persons within the Gallery I linked to this Blog post on Flickr.

Travelling in Honduras: Tegucigalpa

The capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, is build upon many hills and very steep hills sometimes but it’s definitely a very interesting place with sometimes a tremendous difference between the old classical Spanish style and the latest buildings from western companies whom are using low wage workers to make their products.

Travelling in Honduras: Caribbean coast.

If you go towards the coast you come to see the rolling green hills with the local flowers before you get to the Caribbean sea. This is when you get to the beautiful blue colored sea with the islands just a short boat trip away.

The local population is very charming and welcoming to tourists and are happy to share with you the beauty of their country.

Do you have a Honduras travel experience? Please share it with me in the comments.

Travelling in Honduras: Slideshow

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaapwillem/tags/2008americasabrilhondurasviaje/

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Yahoo HATES PUBLIC opinion

Now I think it’s becoming more and more official.. And I think it’s a real pity but Yahoo HATES public opinion.

I write this article with boiling blood, because Yahoo is taking more and more control over Flickr and they clearly do not understand the Flickr motivation.

Way back in the time we loved Flickr because they where cutting-edge and had a great community ..

Now the community is going down.. more and more people are moving towards other sites, like SmugMug and even Picasaweb..

From a technical point of view, few things have changed lately, the last major addition is the addition of Video.. and that only for 1:30 minutes..

Lately there’s a trend from Flickr to start to intervene into community discussions, one of the biggest fails was the Laughing clown which was similar to Obama. Now the latest is the erasing of posts and intervention within the Yahoo groups..

So I would like to refer to this article from Thomas Hawk and face the facts that Flickr soon will be a community without community..

Give it a look and share this with your friends, colleagues etc.. and stop using Flickr, there are many more interesting photo sites on the internet..

Cheers Jaap Willem

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Mobile programs and iphone os3

This is another update on mobile applications and as well a my thoughts on the preview off the iphone os3.

Mobile applications.
Which programs do I still use and which ones don’t I use anymore?
The other day there was an article going over the Internet that most apps on the iPhone only will get used once. The second time is very rare and very few are getting used everyday.

For me, the most used programs are still the Music program and the Mail program on my iTouch. More programs I’m using on a daily basis is The Remember the Milk program and the Twitterfon.

Furthermore as well the Flick mobile page and the Friendfeed page. These are the 6 most used programs by me by far.

Then I do have the regular social media programs like Facebook, Linkedin and Hyves. Furthermore as well some games and so on. The other day I’ve been downloading a program from Oackley what is definitely interesting for Surfers and Fishermen.

The organisation from my home-screens are made simple, the first one is filled with the programs I use every day or very regularly. The second one is for Social Media, the 3rd are tools I’m using once in a while and the fourth for games and leisure.

How is your Home Screen organisation?

iPhone 3.0 software.
I think with the iPhone 3 software, finally the iPhone will become quiet interesting for me. For once the software is technically on the same level as for example Symbian software. Only the background apps won’t be running, but I’m not a big fan of the background anyway.

Furthermore one of the most interesting parts will be the Notifications and the Copy and paste.

What are your thought of these?? What are your favorite new options?

Cheers Jaap Willem

Faulty PIcs

DSC_0806, originally uploaded by Jaap Willem.

Hello there,

Just a quick note about the effects X-Rays in Airports can have on your digital pics.

This is an example pic what resulted because I have putted my Camera through the X-Rays at the Airport security. Even though this picture have been taken after going through the security.

I don’t know the exact theory behind this kind of behaviour but I do know that it’s probably because the X-rays are touching the bits stored on the memory card. As a result, the bits are getting distorted and will be causing these kinds of pics.

So please take care the next time you take your camera through the X-rays and hope that it will never happen to you.

Have a nice day..