The personal website of Matt Henderson.
28 August 2008
My company, MakaluMedia, is supporting the joint efforts of the National Writing Project and Google, to provide a platform for the nation’s young people to express their opinions on issues that concern them to the 2008 U.S. presidential candidates.
26 August 2008
One of our neighbors who works in the Spanish agriculture business was telling us, in passing conversation one day, about the steroidal products that are used nowadays in the produce industry. It was interesting to hear that one of the main uses for such products was the production of crops which simply look good. She explained, for example, how unnatural it turns out to be, that each piece of a given fruit or vegetable happens to grow to precisely the same shape and size as all the others.
24 August 2008
The plan this morning called for an exploratory walk around the Refugio Juanar (about 20 minutes from Marbella, direction Ojén), to find and examine the trail that leads from Pico de Juanar to Istán.
23 August 2008
The area around Yunquera, in Andalucia’s “Sierra de las Nieves” is famous (maybe even world famous) for its concentration of beautiful and majestic “Pinsapo” pine trees. Although we’ve been there several times in the past, we decided to head up there early this morning, to take in some of the cool mountain air.
18 August 2008
After an intense week of work, my wife’s suggestion on Friday to head off to the Alpujarras for the weekend was music to my ears. We did some quick Googling, found a nice apartment for rent in Bubión, loaded up the Jeep and hit the road.
14 August 2008
In this article, I’m going to compress a lot of study, experience and opinion about personal investing, into a single essay to which I can refer others.
13 August 2008
In February of this year, I switched this blog from WordPress to Drupal, the reasons for which are explained here. Today, a handful of months later, I'm switching it back.
I have a Garmin Nuvi 370 GPS device, and a Mac OS X MacBook. We're planning a trip to Stuttgart, Germany and I hoped to be able to easily load waypoints, locations, POIs (Points of Interest)--in other words, "places"--onto my GPS beforehand. I don't know if I've discovered the only way to do it, but I did find a way. And it is far more complicated than I'd hoped. So, until I find a better way, here's how it's done: