I came across this story at work. It's nice to see technology working in redeeming ways. The effort resulted in the creation of Photo Missing Children, or PhotoMC, an application designed to help find missing children through Microsoft’s face recognition application program interface (API). Click here to read the full story.

Breakfast today was from here. Carb overload. This is one of the few places I've encountered that takes an IOU for payment in lieu of cash.

Cetara is another small village on the coast. We counted 11 photography crews taking pictures of families and kids. Some of these had video crews in addition to still cameras. We are stumped as to why there would be so many photo shoots on a Wednesday of all days, and why would they be in this small village?

When we think of the town covered in lava from Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79 we typically think about Pompeii. But there was another town also covered by lava call Herculaneum. It turns out that Herculaneum was covered differently than Pompeii which resulted from less damage to the structure of the town. In fact you can... Continue Reading →

We've made it to Italy and have just been relaxing. Here are a few pictures of Amalfi. There are a number of towns on the coast one of the most famous being Amalfi. We are staying in a different town called Maiori about 15 minutes up the winding road. Speaking of winding roads, this coast has... Continue Reading →

Where we are staying on this trip is just a little outside of Corinth. You can see on the map the little star by Livas Travel. Our apartment is just above the travel service. The modern town of Corinth (Korinthos) is a little further down the road to the right. Our host told us that... Continue Reading →