This past Saturday I took a drive over to Falls Lake just north of Raleigh and snapped some pictures.

Here's the Flickr link.

Yesterday I took another of my one day photo excursions to Pilot Mountain State Park here in North Carolina (just northwest of Winston Salem).

As usual, here's the link to the set over at Flickr.

Time for The Avengers!

Often times people will ask me various questions about upcoming stuff in the consumer technology sphere and I'll go over what I've read about and my own guesses as to what may be coming along down the pipeline.  Afterall I am a reader of several computer/tech blogs and news sites as well as participate in several online forums about this topic so I like to think I have a "feel" for the pulse beat of the tech world.  Sometimes I'm close in my guesses, other times I miss the mark completely, and at times I'm dead on with my predictions.

With that in mind it dawned on me that I never really put up a post here with some serious thought about not one particular thing but rather a broader look at the next 12-18 months.

I'm going to cover Apple in this post and look at others in follow up posts later this week.

So here it is, my predictions for the next 12-18 months.

Today I made the trip up to Norfolk, Virginia, to visit USS Wisconsin.  I have never had a chance to visit an Iowa Class battleship before so it was a great pleasure to get away for a few hours to grab some pictures and walk her decks.  I also got very lucky in that I dodged a pretty bad storm that blew through not fifteen minutes after I left the ship.

Here's a link to the photos I shot today on Flickr.

And here is one more excellent shot I took today.

I'm loving the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone!