I have a feeling that umbrellas are going to become a lot more relevant in the near future as global warming continues to deliver extreme...

Wondering what size Hawaiian-style shirt you should order? Wonder no more. Here are size charts for both the square-cut shirts from...

Now that I've ordered and received a few of these shirts from HugePOD, I can write up a description of what they are like. Spoiler - I...

This article answers the questions in its title, and in doing so answers the MFAQ (most frequently asked question): How long is the...

This morning saw two very large boxes and a slightly smaller one being ticked: - Thanks to a generous cash injection from my father, I...

My last post asked you to "Please stand by" because of working on the new online store. And, it turns out, with good reason. I'm very...

Yep. I've decided to take the plunge and open a stand-alone, print-on-demand, dropshipping online store, a site with its own name and url...

I spent some time in my last post, What Do Magnum PI, Ricky from the Trailer Park Boys, and Hunter S. Thompson Have in Common? talking...

A big part of my overall plan to create a sustainable income stream from my creative work is figuring out what products I want to sell....

It's been almost a year since I last wrote about the YouTube vloggers pursuing a simpler life, renovating land in rural Central Portugal....

My Great Big Europe Trip of 2005, referenced many times throughout this blog, had the explicit goal of collecting as many photographs of...

"Doisneau is remembered for his modest, playful, and ironic images of amusing juxtapositions, mingling social classes, and eccentrics in...

And the winner is Nick from Indiana in the vicinity of Chicago. Their general area of residence seems fitting, as they found out about...

I'm developing a new processing technique that results in images that look like printed ink. These images chart my steps in an attempt to...

Woodlands Hospital, or "Woodlands School" as it was latterly and inaccurately known, was an institution in New Westminster, British...

As I was putting this design together, it struck me that it serves as a kind of pocket virtual tour around Portugal using the web-based...

My light obsession with cheap, rural property in Central Portugal continues to simmer quietly on the back burner. Symptoms include...

Please don't get the idea from this post's title that I have physically returned to the interior of Riverview's West Lawn Pavilion. I...

Win an original WhyTheAlgarve t-shirt! My amazing wife, Lisa, suggested recently that I hold a contest and give away a free, original...

I have a lot of thoughts about shopping carts. They've been on my mind in some fashion for at least ten years, to the extent that I even...