The home page and original site for the Famous Grazing Blogs

There are more than a dozen Famous Grazing Blogs residing on the cybersphere. Some are dormant and some very active. They all link back here to the Granddaddy of our blogs, founding in May of 2004.

Monday, December 31, 2007

Is it a Celebrity Blog, an Author's Blog or a Geek Blog?

It is one of those blogs occasionally mentioned in a NYT article, you visit it, browse around and then click the X and it is off your radar.  However, there was one and now there are two blogs put out by authors that I have added to the TO READ folder in my overloaded Google Reader.
The first belongs to Neil Gaiman.  

His blog has had many changes from feeling like an illustrated novel to becoming a more personable blog, with side features to add to it wealth of information.  Mr. Gaiman is one of the contemporary authors who cannot have a book published for very long before it is in my hands and read too quickly.

Now another author whose work finds itself into my hands as quickly is Stephen Fry.  His blog leans more to the fun he is having using computers and the Internet, but still, there are links to the fruit is labor handily weaved into the page design. 

Though the content of Mr. Fry's blog leans toward the Geek, I have placed it in the TO READ file, instead of the KNOWN GEEKS, where Amber MacArthur, Leo Laporte and the like are linked. 

With so much information constantly coming into our lives from so many sources, the need to characterize, compartmentalize and generally cope is becoming more and more a necessity. 

As an example, there is one book of Mr. Gaiman's I have yet to read is Revenge: A Novel

I am waiting for the arrival of my gifted Kindle and intend it to be my first online order/download.

Hogmanay !!
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Patti DeRosa

If you haven't seen her perform or at least heard Patti DeRosa sing, there is a piece missing in your life.

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The Mysterious Object Identified!

In an earlier article on BBC News, a mysterious object over 27 meters long had washed up on the shores of Stinky bay on the west of Benbecula.

The good news is it has been identified. The very good news for our fellow Scots is that it is a fermentation device used to make beer. Though it hasn't been claimed by the Colorado brewing company, the BBC News reports it is very similar to the type they used.

When I first saw the article, I was convinced it was of some sort of military creature right out of Dr. Who or its anagram spin-off Torchwood, where alien articles mysteriously appear on the British Isles, mostly around Cardiff. But the more mundane use for brewing beer; now that's something I never would've guessed.

Well, ye inhabitants of the Western Isles, Hogmanay!
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Sunday, December 30, 2007

From whence came all the programs?

Back in the 80's when I took home my first 8080 PC, the program was on one five inch floppy while the OS ran on the other 360K disk.  Then came the 80286>80386 and the hard drive.
Soon after the introduction of the hard drive a 1200bps modem was added. 

Shareware came on floppies collected at monthly PCUG meetings.  Geeks Only!!!

Next was the 486 and the 5600 baud modem.  It was believed for a moment that we had plateaued in information sharing.  What fools!

This bit of nostalgia was brought about by a review of programs evaluated over the past year.  We kept all of the installation files on our backup 250 Gig back-up drive.  That being full, we are now moving the 2005-2007 files to the second 500 Gig back-up drive.

With the 160 Gig drive on the laptop, the total storage connected to this little laptop come to 960 Gig, or .96 Terabyte.

960,000,000K vs. 360K-X2 in twenty or so years.  There was no way I could've imagined making that leap in so short a time.  What more do we get out of this memory?  A great deal if managed rightly.  Too much to handle, if we don't.

Maybe I'll go back into politics...
Nah!
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Link About Living Longer

This link found Lifehacker.com lists way to live longer.  We found the part about dark chocolate to be of the most interest.

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Funny Cartoon

We're back in the States just in time for another winter storm. Here in New England we call this watershed. The more snow that accumulates during the winter, the higher the water tables will be underground for the summer rush on water usage. Also, the surface water in our lakes and ponds, of which there are many, will rise, probably overflow. In most cases this is a good thing. In others, not so much, but we hope for the best.

This cartoon demonstrates what happens to communities who don't think their water policy through.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Away Bloogging

One of the advantages of using Blogger to base Belltower News is the ability to use a computer not your own to post blog entries.

I am sure there are all sorts of security issues, but if you use Firefox, and set it to delete all of your private settings, then the risk is, if not completely removed, at least it is reduced. In today's world, for what more could you ask.

For those of you basking in the sunlight, enjoying the sunny climes on this week between Christmas and the New Year, a pox on you! You are not sitting in a study, in an ancient New England house overlooking the ice laden water. You don't see the hopefully grateful birds clambering around the feeder, attacking the squirrels feeding from their dropped seeds.

You see sun and surf and all that is attracted to that environment. You lucky dogs.

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Monday, December 24, 2007

Mastering Google Reader

In a few of our blog entries we have complained about being overwhelmed by Google Reader.  This is no longer so.

We have made few modifications in the manner in which it is read, while simultaneously adding a dozen or so RSS links to blogs and other sites.

Whereas before we were reading each blog separately they are now grouped by general interest.  We have BLOGS, NEWS, SOFTWARE, HARDWARE and TO READ.  Each of the selected links are placed into the right group. 

Next we changed the default view from Expanded View to List View.   For a while we tried reading it by group.  Then we advanced to reading list with All Items (#) chosen.

The last, and most necessary of the settings is Show # New Items.

After perusing the  list, do not forget to Mark All As Read.  If you forget to do that, then the rest of the effort was in vain. 

We have recently added to Firefox the Read It Later extension.  Using this tool removed the last bit of pressure.  

Now we select an item from the list, right click to link and choose, Read It Later from the list.  Then the link is added to a list activated by the new icon in the top toolbar. 

Next,  it's onto the new Kindle from Amazon.

Information Overload.  Who would have thought it possible?
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Sunday, December 23, 2007

Dolphins Win 2nd Half!!

The Miami Dolphins defeated The New England Patriots in the scoring for the 2nd half of today's game. Unfortunately, The Patriots won the first Half by a lot more points. 28-7. This makes them 15-0.

Just thought you might like to know.
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Saturday, December 22, 2007

A Break with Tradition

For the past 12 years, two dear friends of ours from "back in the day" have come up to visit us from the city.  Along with them came their growing family.  In totum now there are seven of them.

It saddens me deeply that this year, due to separate reasons, none of them will be visiting. 

Adapting to this news, we have decided to visit Maine and PEI for the holiday.  I know the Caribbean is the other way, but I have always wanted to visit the island, and we understand they do the season "Right."

Happy everything to all of you.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Zoho Writer Blog Entry Titles

When using the Zoho Writer online to post a blog, the title of the blog will be the title of the document.  If you don't save the document with a title prior to publishing it, then the title of your blog entry will be Untitled.

We learn by example best.
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Just tired

Once a week the "tireds" comes over me. On a normal day, five to six hours sleep is all I need. Tonight, I think ten should do it. This will carry me through to a week of much needed vacation.

If it was my choice for the entire week I would hunker down and watch the weather happen outside without me. But family calls to Maine where I will watch the winter from the family compound. The view is better but the drive can be a terror when black ice rules the roads.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

So There are Rats in Sumatra, Indosnesia at Least.

Fans of the canon will be glad to hear of the recent discovery of a giant rat in Indonesia, of which Sumatra is a part.

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Monday, December 17, 2007

Times are Changing

Fidel Castro, according to BBC News, is hinting at retirement. Wants to make room for the younger generation. I remember watching supportive newsreels of the Cuban Revolution between movies in my childhood, over a half a century ago. It would appear Mr. Castro has a slightly warped idea of what moving over and the younger generation mean.

On a lighter note, the Earl and Countess of Wessex have announced the birth of a new son, Viscount Severn, first name so far undecided. The file photo in the piece displays the Earl in a top hat and the Countess wearing a bird thingy on her head. That's straight out of the 1930's representation of royalty!

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Sunday, December 16, 2007

Weather Report from Patriots New England

Here in balmy New England, I sit around thirty miles from Foxborough Stadium. I know there is a brand name attached to it, but we, being New Englanders, will always call it by its real name.

This goes for the Gimmell house in which we live. The Gimmells haven't lived here since the 1950's but when we tell people here-abouts where we live, "Oh, the Gimmell house." is aways the response.

On a dry Sunday, with no game in the forecast, it would take me less than 20 minutes to drive up Rte. 1 past the Stadium. Today, if I left right now, I might make it there by breakfast tomorrow. It the last Instant Snowstorm of a few days ago, I left Worcester at 1 in the afternoon and saw my front door around dinner time. My knuckles are still white from that driving. I don't intend to make them whiter today.

Our greatest fear at the moment is ice on the cable and power wires. News reports have a large portion of Pennsylvania without power. It would also shut down the heat, but we have fireplaces for back up. Power failure would mean we would have to rely on out Blackberries for the score. Or, there is that thing called a radio... I think we have one in the basement. Where are those batteries?

As far as the weather, three hours before the game, the foot or so of snow on our balcony is now being nicely coated with sleet. We understand there may even be a touch of freezing rain to add to the layering effect. Then, as it gets dark, more snow.

What fun!!!

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BINGO!!!

The problem with the Live Writer usage with Movable Type was looking for the API Password.  It isn't called that in the user profile.  It is called  Web Services Password.  I followed all of the directions to embed the .xml file in the root directory, etc. etc. It was using the wrong password.

For every other system the password you use to sign-in is the same as the one you use to allow an editor, such as this Live Writer to gain access.  The people at Movable Type decided you needed an extra layer of protection by providing a different password for "Third Party Access."

I told you I wouldn't quit that easily.  Now let's see if I can get this work in Scribe Fire and w::bloggar...

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Saturday, December 15, 2007

I have tried all of the offline blog editors, even w:bloggar, to get into the new MovableType grazing blog, Movable Grazing. I am getting all sorts of error codes.

The people at LiveWriter gave me an XML file to create and load on the server. All that did was change the error code. Something's going on here. It probably is a misplaced comma or a space where there shouldn't be one.

I will find out what is going on and let you know.

Or not...

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Thursday, December 13, 2007

GoDaddy Localhost For MovableType

Now that MoveableType is OpenSource, I couldn't wait to install it on our GoDaddy Host. After what seemed like HOURS, I finally RTFM and found out "localhost" doesn't work when setting up the database in GoDaddy. You have to go into your account hosting manager, click on databases and then find the pencil icon on the right side of the screen.

Clicking that brings you to an informational screen where the local host, unique to your database is named. It isn't even close to "localhost" but it works.

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Instant Winter!

One of the disadvantages of listening to music, via iPod transmitter, in your car is you don't get weather bulletins. To make up for that, I do get NWS bulletins in my email, but, that requires reading them.

So, you can imagine my surprise when driving south on the Interstate this afternoon to find myself, just about instantly, on a road, unsalted, and blanketed with snow.

Before Exit 20, brown grass and evergreens, after Exit 20, winter wonderland. It was that fast.

Normally snow creeps up on you, or it's there in the morning when you rise. This was more like somebody up there said, "Whoa! Forgot to install winter and I have train to catch." DUMP! "There, that should do it." In the words of my philosophical guru, "I kid you not!"
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Sunday, December 09, 2007

Live Writer Has Arrived!!

Now that Live Writer is a usable blog editor you are guaranteed to see more entries at Random Grazing Space.  The other active grazing blogs are rooted here in Belltower News.  The catchall blog is Other Grazing on Live Journal.

On WordPress we have Grazing Portal and Grazing Press= our last hosted blog.

While at a trade show in British Columbia we set up the Vox blog Trounce Alley.  Because of the lack of off line editors that support this blog and its connection to a social connection portal, we don't count it as an active blog. It does serve as a good place to test programs which tout themselves as all-over blog editors.

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The Patriot beat the Guaranteed Pittsburgh Steelers.  

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The Patriots vs. Pittsburgh

I know we have gone on and on about Google Reader.  There is one thing more powerful.  The New England Patriots.  There is no way, at 1615 this afternoon, I will be anywhere near this laptop at kick off time.

The rest of the world my hate the Patriots, but this is New England.

Expect comments after the game.

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Google Reader-a deus: Drug of Choice

In a previous blog entry, I bemoaned the time taken up by defaulting to Google Reader as the Firefox home page. 

It used to be Google News.  Google News took up enough time to get me somewhat informed.  The occasional dive from a Google News New York Times link to other NYT stories was no where near as time consuming as the links out from the dozens of RSS feeds that now reside on my Google Reader. (One of them being the NYT RSS Feed)

What would Betty Ford do?

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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Google Reader Free Software Feed

In the right hand column of Belltower News is a box.

This is the Google Reader share box. It only displayed the last five links shared from the the Google Reader.

But, if you click on the Read more it will take you to the entire list of shared items. The latest dozen or so are software items available at CNet.

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Each is either in use here or on the desktop in the office. All of the listed software is very usable and totally replaces their professional counterparts.

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Saturday, December 01, 2007

I Have Been Swallowed by Google Reader

You may find the items in the Google Reader box in the lower right column to be very up to date, whereas the entries to this and the other Grazing blogs have fallen off in quantity. Blame Google Reader. Where we would have come back to the blog and made mention of site of wonder, now we just hit the SHARE key in Google Reader and it appears in the aforementioned box in the lower right column.

A good example of this is the link to the blog entry about the blog entry about the $40.00 eyeglass phenomenon.

You would have seen my own evaluation because I bought six pairs from one of the companies mentioned to my own great satisfaction. But did I have time to tell you? NO! Because I was too busy being dragged from story to story, blog to blog, news bit to news bit by Google Reader.

The line from the fortune cookie:
"Help! I am being held hostage in a fortune cookie factory!"comes to mind here..
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Sunday, November 25, 2007

First Zoho, now Live Writer!

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First we discover that Zoho online writer will post to Blogger, LiveJournal and WordPress.  Now we learn that Windows Live Writer has come out of beta as 1.0. 

It has to be said up-front, I am no fan of MS.  I am not a fan of the way they try to sneak their not free software and services into the installation of this blog editor.  When I was automatically taken to Windows Live, I discovered Microsoft Dollars!  I felt like I was walking through a carnival, near closing time...

But, the writer is good.  It does what I want and off line.  Of course, now that I will post it, the "data" that I did not give MS permission to gather will be placed on some obscure file in the bowels of Windows until MS gets me to give permission by some other nefarious means.

All in all, ScribeFire is still the most convenient of the bunch.

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Saturday, November 24, 2007

Blog One

This is being written in Zoho Writer.  The question is, can a blog be published from here? We shall see.
  • There are some features here like indenting and
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 Graphics as well.

  There is also highlighting and Links.

  As well as change in fonts.

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Zoho Notebook

This is an amazing tool. I have been told it can be used to publish to blogs. I haven't tried it yet, but if you are interested in Zoho Notebook, going to this page will bring up a YouTube link to an excellent demonstration of some of the thing you can do with it.

I paid close attention to the Share parts because I work with four other colleagues spread all over New England. If we get up to speed with this, it can be very helpful.
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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving

This was just one of the three tables covered with food.







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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Amber and the Dalai Lama

This page is worth a visit just to see the Dalai Lama out of the spotlight for a few minutes and to see him shake hands with Amber MacArthur. I met him in San Francisco many-many years ago. He doesn't seem to have aged a bit.
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Friday, November 16, 2007

Railroad Stove

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Monday, November 12, 2007

Web 2.0 Comment

We just left a comment at the ZDNet "Web 2.0" article regarding Mozzilla's Firefox memory usage. It implied that anyone really understand "memory leakage." It has been explained in so many contrary ways, we believe it to be a cyber-myth that explains a law of physics with a colander cum punctured tire comparison.

In out comment we mentioned that Firefox runs fine on a laptop, this one, with 42 extensions, including the one with which we are writing this blog entry, running simultaneously.
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Sony Reader - Report of short Honeymoon

At this link from 43 folders, also saved in the Google reader box in the Belltowernews right column, you will find a story from a disgruntled user of the Sony Reader PRS-505.

This saddens me to a great degree. I was ready to go out and buy one with the understanding I could copy my Adobe pdf files, hundreds of which I have for work and the other work.

If this short story is to be believed, and I see no reason why not, they the Sony Reader has not evolved as much as is hyped. Alas!

It makes me sad that a gadget over which I have sinfully coveted, turns out to be a shadow of its promised self.

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Friday, November 09, 2007

::w.bloggar

Okay, this is the NEW, I mean really new ::w.bloggar version 4.02.

I haven't fully explored it yet, but I do know it is still the only one that instinctively uploads entries into SquareSpace. Unfortunately we didn't want to pay for a weblog when there is so much out there, such as this blog, that are, relatively, free.

What will I do with three days off?

After a visit to the doctor today I was told some stuff that wasn't fun.  I have the next three days off to think about it.  The question is, why would I want to waste three days off thinking about bad news?  I think it's time to veg and swim in the Egyptian River.

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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Computerworld's Worst Firefox Extension

This is being written using one of the extensions condemned in this article. They say there is no reason for a blog editor when the online blogs all have their own editors.

The reason is you can do just what I am doing now, comment on a web page without having to go to the blog's website, sign on and go through the steps of bringing up the online. This is much easier.

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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Scottish Censorship, kinda!

There was an article in this morning's Scotsman.com regarding some silly drug related "scandal" involving a member of the Royal Family.

It basically says there is a court order prohibiting them from mentioning the name of this Royal. Some other bright person, it would seem the article says, tried to blackmail said unnamed Royal and got caught. It goes onto say, though the court says they can't tell you the name of the person, there a picture of him signing a book in the Italian Newspaper IL repubblica.it

Not being able to read Italian, I am afraid this person's identity or what this person is alleged to be accused of by the blackmailer is unknown to me.
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Sunday, November 04, 2007

Whew!

The surrounding tension in New England has lessoned, but not dissipated. New Englanders have become spoiled, with the World Series and all of the record book numbers surrounding members of the Patriots. They won the game, but few points, but, as it said by Patriots fans, a win is a win.

The Colts didn't score the highest against New England, but the spread was much shorter. That seems to mean something. Don't ask me.
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Saturday, November 03, 2007

First the Nor'easter and now the Colts

Today we sat around in the morning waiting for the promised Nor'easter. It came. There was wind and rain, fallen branches and a power outage or two. Pretty much as expected.

Tomorrow everyone will be sitting around waiting until 4:15 in the afternoon. That's when the Colts should be running out on to the field. I honestly believe most of the people here in New England are worried more about tomorrow than they were today.

We're used to Nor'Easters. Where not that used to having out team play an undefeated team, going in undefeated ourselves.

I wish I could ignore it. Not being that big a fan of organized sports, you think I could. It would have been easier to ignore the windows rattling and the trees falling today, all day.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Cool But Useless

Okay, here's the thing: There is an online editor that will send the stuff you write on it to a blog, or save it as a text file. What I don't understand is why should you add this layer to creating a text file when this can be done using notepad on any computer?

Why would you go to this site to load what you have written into a blog when you can just as easily go to the blog site itself and load it, with all of the onsite bells and whistles?

The way it works is neat. The why you would use it baffles me. It does remind me of the older monotone monitors. It gives you the choice of colors. Amber and Green are the colors that bring back the old days.
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Use GIMP?

If you use Gimp, and who doesn't, you may want to upgrade to version 2.4.

You can download it here.
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Mapping online

For those of you who automatically go to either MapQuest of Google Maps, the online mapping services listed in this CyberNet article about five other places to go for maps may surprise you. 

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Taking The Week Off Listening to News

Words in Conflict - Part OneOn the way to work on Monday I was listening to NPR. This is not shock-jock radio. Thoughtful, considered commentary and reporting. Perhaps it was this that did it, but when I heard the comments about World War III coming from the Oval Office, I just turned off the radio. I brought me back to the days in grammar school when we ducked and covered on a regular basis for the upcoming Soviet invasion.

Then this morning I read an article in the online International Herald Tribune regarding the partitioning of Iraq. Historically speaking, this is an excellent idea. The country was formed on the whim of a British woman after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. It is said in all that is written about the wisdom of this partition that no ethnic research whatsoever was used.

Pure whim. Perhaps now, with intelligent examination and the participation of the people who live there, a reasonable solution to this can be found.

What I want to know is why wasn't this worked out BEFORE the invansion? Isn't that way things were done in the good old days, when invading countries was a sport for Britain and the other European powers?

Thinking this gave me a huge headache. This is why I am taking a week off from the news.

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Wishlist Camera

Nikon D80 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera Kit with 18-55mm ED AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor LensIf you watch CSI, you will notice it is Nikon digital cameras that they use. All of the photographs you see displayed on this blog that were created by us in the last two years have been taken with the Nikon D50. The D80 is our wish list camera.

It was on a trip to Alaska that inspired us to get something more than a point and shoot camera. We took a point and shoot on the trip to Morocco and kept leaving it places. It was only through sheer luck and a fellow traveler who lived within driving distance of my brother that got that camera back to us.

I started with a Konica and a Leica SLR back in the late Sixties but once Nikon came into the picture it has been a fight between their SLR and the Elf point and shoot. For quality, it certainly is the Nikon, hands down.

These are not the opinion of a professional photographer, but of someone who took over a thousand photos in ten days along the coast of Alaska and up into the Yukon. Even with the 4Gig memory card, I still downloaded onto my laptop's auxiliary drive.

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Monday, October 22, 2007

Don't Forget Open Office

Open Office from 2.3 on is a wide open Blog Editor as well. I recently tried the “Oxygen Office” add -on for OOo 2.3 and am not sure if my collection of attachments, add-ons and skins has been carried over. This seemed like as good a time as ever to find out.

I decided to take a break from the news for the next weekend. There is just to much going on all around us. I know there has always been too much, but at the moment, it seems too in your face for me. NPR is freaking me out in the morning with talk of WWIII over Iran's trying to match Macho with the US. This is a 5,000.00 year old chip on the Persian shoulder we're playing with here. It's all Alexander's fault.

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Zoundry - Only One of the Ten

Of the ten blog editors mentioned in the Mashable.com link to this list, they only one I've set up that I don't already use is Zoundry.

The interesting thing about this editor so far is the Media Repository option. It asks for the FTP settings for where you host your blog. It was easy to fill out as soon as I was able to remember the server password. Everything is set up to act automatically it is a wise thing I keep a secure list of my passwords on... Wait! That wouldn't be a very smart thing to do...

This is written in Zoundry.

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Lets see what it looks like live on the Blog.

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Treasure Trove for Bloggers

This link at Mashable.com brings to the list of 10 Desktop Blog Editors.

I found two about which I knew nothing or little.

If they work, you will see comments here about them.

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Friday, October 19, 2007

Colbert in SC for Prez?

When Pat Paulson ran for President six times, I believe he was on the ballot of at least a dozen states.

Colbert is only registering in South Carolina.

Do you think there will be write in campaign in the other 49 states and the territories? Because, though it isn't French, but with his way of saying it, at least sounds French, I believe the francofile expatriates will certainly write his name in.

I am seriously considering it here in the Commonwealth.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Hospitals Culling the Herd?

Until my brother died in May of what the hospital called MRSA* Pneumonia I had never heard of the bacterial infection. Since then I have read a lot about it.

In this morning's NYT there was a disturbing article that, among other startling things, said that almost 19,000 people have died in one year, while under health care, of this bacterial infection.

Patients are put in jeopardy by going into the health care system, this article further states,because "busy hospital workers disregard basic standards of hand-washing more than half the time." Our overworked hospital staff are so busy; the people who are devoted to care, when rushed, are causing patients to be killed by the "caregivers" who are supposed to save them.

I will offer no opinion here other than to ask you to read the article and consider what actions you may need to take to protect yourself and those you love.

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

The Green Box in the Right Column

If you look at the green box in this blog's right column you will see a list of links. These are entries I have discovered in the Google Feed Reader. I have been using this box as a hold link for myself, but I think you may find the stories, blog entries and freeware links to be of some interest.

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Monday, October 15, 2007

Blog Action Day

Air is good to breathe, water is good to drink.

Let's keep it that way.

'nuff said!
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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Too Many Feeds, Too Little Time

I started with putting a FEEDS folder in my bookmark toolbar. That seemed to work quite well, for a while, they I split the FEEDS folder to BLOGS and NEWS.

That grew as well. All the while, the one-line descriptions provided in the menu bar, though increasing the speed of the initial scan, was causing to me to go to sites only to find the subject of little interest to me.

Then I re-discovered Google Reader, through a You-Tube entry in Boing-Boing.

I spent the last few hours setting that up. It is the SHARE feature that sold me on it. Now when I find an article or blog entry I want to share with the blog readers, but haven't the time to make a decent blog entry, I can click on the Share button and it automatically goes to the box in the right column of Belltower News. I will move the box up above Flickr later in the day.

And so it goes here in cyberville, USA.
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Saturday, October 13, 2007

WinAmp and Trojan Message

Stopzilla blocked the instalation of WinAmp 5.5. with a Media-Codec file identified as a highly dangerous Trojan. A little research in the WinAmp forums and around the net found this to be a False Positve reading. I also discovered in my wandering that StopZilla deleted the instalation componants of the file. Not good.

If this happens to you, shut down StopZilla during the instalation. When all of the basic options are set for WinAmp, close it and reboot. This will restart StopZilla, (Assuming you have in the StartUp file.) Then WinAmp should play with no problem.

Speaking of WinAmp 5.5, it can totally replace iTunes in the management of your iPod. I mentioned in an early blog entry that the plugins for iPod control in WinAmp were clumsy. Not a worry any more, it is now part of WinAmp to manage any portable Mp3 player, including iPod. I synced all of the files I have loaded since iTunes committed hari kari in its last upgrade attempt. No more worry, at least with my ancient 60 Gb iPod Photo.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Skype Users Update

If you are a Skype user, I am told by people who know these things, that it is very important that you upgrade now. They also tell me not to go to any particular site for this upgrade, but to start Skype, click on the Help menu and check for updates. It takes a second or two, but it is worth it, or so people who say that sort of thing, say.

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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Trying ISBN Inserting Plug-in

There is a plug-in for LiveWriter that is supposed to add a Amazon Link with your affiliate number embedded in the insert. I tried it earlier but it kept claiming the ISMN number was invalid.

This is me trying it again:

Very nice, very nice indeed.
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LiveJournal Tags:

We Will Admit to Over Reaction

When the comment was made by a person from MS regarding the 404 message so soon after we installed it, we will admit to a touch of over reaction. 

It is not normal for us to trash a program such as this that a lot of people obviously put a lot of effort into creating.  It's just that MS has taken on its own governmental identity amongst the geek community.

Synchronicity, perhaps, but still it must be admitted the timing was the reason for the knee-jerk reaction.  If anyone was offended, we would be surprised, but still sorry.

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Monday, October 08, 2007

Okay, No More Live Writer

Besides being cumbersome and not compatible with my SquareSpace blog, the 404 comment below solicited a comment from MS itself.

I don’t mind being monitored by commandN, now and then, but when MS makes
a comment like that within the hour of my uploading the software, when
I made no effort to contact them, is too Big Brother for me.

I will delete Live Writer and its associated logs tonight.
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Live Writer One

I put together an elaborate blog entry with pictures and links but I kept getting 404’d by LiveWriter. In the set up it was able to post a temporary log entry that was deleted but not before Blogger sent me an email showing me the entry.

This one, with no formatting, links or pictures, will be posted now.

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The Advice of Leo!

On his new blog, Leo Laporte, recommends Windows Live Writer for blogging. I just downloaded and installed it.

I will try it after dinner.

Wish me luck.

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Sunday, October 07, 2007

Quite Weekend

Yesterday I took my son and friends to King Richards Faire. The highlight of that trip was a juggling jester called Paolo Garbanzo. We saw him last year as well but this year his fame has obviously spread because though most of the other side theaters were half empty, Garbanzo’s was standing room only.

The audience was about one third in costume, but entirely into the performer. He knew how to engage them with practiced buffoonery, clever puns and skillful juggling. He made light of the danger as he swallowed fire, transferred flames from his tongue to torch and ate a juggled onion balanced on a ball.

One of the kids with us tipped him five dollars. Considering his allowed spending limit was twenty five, that was quite a tip.

Spent today light shopping and watching football.

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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Joni Mitchell Puts If to Music.

There is an article on NPR.com about Joni Mitchell and her latest music. It is worth reading of you are a fan, or planning to become one in the near future. I listened to some of the cuts featured on the site and watched the provided video of Ms. Mitchell singing her coyote song on a 1979 tour. This was all good for me.

What I, being a fan of Rudyard Kipling, found most fascinating was the song she did putting his poem If to music. Very nice. Very nice indeed. As I was listening to it, rendered mostly word for word from the original, I wondered how she would handle to final five words.

She changed them. Much in the same way the man who recently re-recorded her song Yellow Taxi modified the last words of that song to fit in with his gender.

I have no problem with this. It is the general message, akin to the now popular lists used to manage life, that I love. I read it to my son every year on his birthday. I don’t change the last five words.
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NBC’s Chuck is not Jake

Jake 2.0, a short-lived series on SciFi, ran along the same premise of computer technology invading a nerd and making him valuable to the “intelligence” community. Jake 2.0 ran on the Canadian reality while Chuck has California based Corporate Broadcasting’s version of reality as its base. Neither has any idea what it is the people in the CIA and the NSA do.

Both have them as active killers on US soil. The CIA agent stabs half a dozen people on the dance floor and no one notices, except the NSA agent who a few moments ago told his minions that it would be alright to kill the CIA agent, in the club, in LA, if she got in their way. On what planet do these people reside?

As for TV science, similar to cartoon physics, the nano-robots in Jake 2.0’s body were somewhat more believable than the mental download Chuck receives staring into a laptop’s screen for several hours without blinking or going to the bathroom. One saving grace is his sidekick. I haven’t seen a good sidekick on network television for a while.

We will give it a chance, it has been put on the subscribed list on TiVo but its space there is not guaranteed for the season.
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Saturday, September 29, 2007

iTunes Problem

The Apple updater seems to have assassinated my iTunes.

About a third of the way through the update it froze and said it couldn’t find the .msi file at a subdirectory that was the subdirectory on the last laptop on which it was installed, but not the directory to which it was installed on this laptop.

So, I dutifully directed with the browse option to the right directory.

Nope, it said, that wasn’t the valid directory. Okay, forget this update, I thought. I hit the cancel button and it uninstalled itself. That’s what I thought it did. Then I tried to start iTunes. The shortcut didn’t work, so I went to the program’s directory to find most of it deleted. (Not the music files!!!)

No problem, I said again. I’ve been working with software long enough to know these things happen. So, I downloaded a new copy, using the control panel I first deleted the currently semi-installed version. Then I tried to reinstall it. ¾’s of the way though the installation, same message, same problem.

I went into the registry, deleted all references to iTunes , ran two registry fix programs and tried to reinstall it again. NOPE, Sam error message...

MediaMonkey, here I come!!!!
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Friday, September 28, 2007

Atlantis WordProcessor.

There is another editor available that I like mostly because of the retro-sound effect that is a default feature. It is called Atlantis Word Processor. Having first learned to type on a 1940’s black and white manual typewriter in my father’s office, the sound of the keys soothes me to some degree.

There are other default sounds and word filling is a somewhat startling when you first encounter it. I will go over the sounds when I am finished typing this entry for the blog. There is what sounds like a cellphone ring if you stop typing for a moment. It will be fun trying to figure this one out.

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Early Morning Browsing Warning...

Do not go to the Mashable .com article on 80+ Online Communities for Bloggers ten minutes before you are supposed to leave for work...

You will be late.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

The Bug Isn't Funny, But...

This link discusses a dangerous bug to the older version of OpenOffice.org. It goes on to say this bug does not effect 2.3 and is only present when .tiff files are opened from another OO.o file.

What is funny here is the chatter that follows this message on ZDNet. Talk about blue and red states. This debate is MS and OpenSource all the way. Humanity always seems to find a reason to fight.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. I would say grow up, but that doesn't seem to help. In fact, I think the grown-ups are much more dangerous.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Second Author

I have been added as an editor for this blog. A lot of my stuff is loaded here under BR, but now I can do it myself.

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OOo 2.3 vs. Word

In Windows Fanatics they explain how to display the page margins when in Word.

I've never felt a need to do that, but was curious as to how it is done in my default editor, Open Office Text, 2.3. I was very surprised to find it a prominent choice in the pull down menu under View.

Another reason to like Open Office.

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Browsing on Thunderbird

I installed the Thunderbrowse add-on to Thunderbird this evening.

It works exactly as it says it does.

That's perhaps why it seems so weird. It does turn the message window into a browser.

If you use the Penelope three pane view and full screen you effectively have the email on the left and the browser in the right view message window.

Install any of the various gCal add-ons and it's an all in one program, email, browsing and online scheduling as your desktop.

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LearnFirefox Website Redesigned!!

If you have gone to the LearnFirefox website before from any of the many times I have mentioned, listed, or linked it, you may want to take a fresh look.
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Care to Buy the Magna Carta? No, Seriously...

When I saw the headline in this morning's New York Times, "Magna Carta is Going on the Auction Bloc." I didn't believe it. I knew it was on display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., but I thought it was in possession of the United States. But, it would seem not.

It was on loan from the Ross Perot family. They now want to sell it to raise money for medical research and help veteran's familys.

Will the next person who buys it lend it back to the archives or is it going to be someone whose source of wealth is from oil? Might the English want it back?

If I was them, I would.

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Monday, September 24, 2007

The Big Bang Theory is Funny!

I must admit, that is not something I thought I would ever write. In the past there was nothing about the big bang theory I found in any way humorous. Now that it is a TV sitcom, between How I Met Your Mother and 2 and 1/2 Men, I can say that.

It can honestly be said, if you read blogs, you will find this show funny.
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Sunday, September 23, 2007

When I Was a Kid...

There were at least a dozen local papers. Some were morning papers and some evening. There was also the afternoon edition of the morning paper with stock prices. The evening papers were for the sports scores and the morning papers were to find out what happened in the rest of the world while we were sleeping.

But on Sunday, they all published in the morning. Each paper had comics that only ran in that paper. Then syndication happened and they started running their own and a few of the syndicated strips.

As the number of papers dwindled so did the comic strips. The ones that survived were those in syndication.

Enough history.

The point I started to make before the lecture was that I no longer go to the Sunday paper for my comics fix. I go to News Yahoo.com's Comics page. I have a few attached to the MyYahoo! page but on Sundays I need to go to the core site and browse them all. It's a worthy thing to do.
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We Found a SquarePage Offline Editor!

In truth we didn't find it, we already had it, but we just didn't try it on SquarePage. We thought it would have to be something new to us. That where Ecto and Qumana came in.

But no, it was diehard w::bloggar that did the trick. Now we need to see if it can also work as well with the WordPage and TypePad and LiveJournal sites.
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US State Dept Has "Blog Team."

In yesterday's NYT, there was an article about the State Dept.'s "Blog Team." It is a very serious article about a very serious subject. It shows that blogs are becoming what used to be the posters in 19th Century Paris. The call to arms and the plea for peace.

But now the poles and walls of Paris are the laptops and PDA's of the colleges, the cybercafes in China and the middle east. But like the posters, there is a limited space in the blog entry without links to more in depth information. And like the posters, the blurb excites the crowd; the crowd looking for direction, any direction.

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Slow Feeding Day

I just went through the thirty-two feeds I have in my Bookmark Bar in FireFox. I saw only two items of interest on eHub and the rest did draw me in. I am sure, with more careful examination I might find something about which to comment. This late at night, it is not an option.
Night-night!
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Saturday, September 22, 2007

Warmer March Because of Daylight Savings?

There is a pdf file going around that contains a copy of a letter printed in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette paper that, quite indignantly, blames the warmer March weather on the Federal Government's decision to move the change-over to daylight savings time to an earlier date in the year.

The last paragraph of the letter reads: "Perhap this is another plot by a liberal Congress to make us believe that global warming is a real threat. Perhaps next time there should be serious studies performed before Congress passes laws with such far-reaching effects." Signed (Name) Hot Springs. It is dated April 16, 2007

The debate here is, is this a tongue in cheek inclusion by the manager of Letters to the Editor, or is it serious? The vote is towards it being serious because, according to Wikipedia, this is a conservative paper.

Oh, dear...
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Friday, September 21, 2007

Looking for off line SquareSpace Editors

We're looking for an off line editor for SquareSpace. This is the OpenOffice Text Writer with the blogging add-on. We couldn't set it up with SquareSpace. Googled all over the place for settings and couldn't find any.


Then we tried Ecto. Same story.


So, instead we used OpenOffice to post this to our WordPress blog and here at Belltower News. After a reboot we were able to get Ecto to acknowledge the existence of this blog, listing the last ten entries but it wouldn't post the message we typed.

Settings again, I am sure, but we like an offsite editor that gets the URL of the site and figures out the rest.

Are we dreaming?

No, some do well here while others do well there.

We shall see.

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Temporary Grazing Site

We've created a temporary blog on SquareSpace.com just to see how it works. Like old times!
The blog is located here.

We're calling it Grazing on the Square.

How Original!!
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Mexican Immigration to Canada

A few hundred years ago, in my teens, I considered migrating to Canada to join what was then called the RCMP. Not being a totally foolish teen, I did some research.

I discovered to be a member of the RCMP required Canadian citizenship. To acquire this citizenship I would need to live in the country over a certain number of years. Then I visited Montreal in midwinter. These two things discouraged me.

Now, the New York Times is running an article about Mexican immigrants coming from Naples FL, to Windsor, Ontario.

It is near the end of September. I can say from first hand experience, Windsor's winter weather is nothing like the weather in Naples, FL. I believe some people are in for quite a shock.

I wish them well in their odessy. I hope the officials there treat them with human kindness. It's not something this country has done.

But, I also hope they survive the winter.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Hopefully the last Last Comic Standing...

The only way you could get me to watch another Last Comic Standing is for there to be a Reader's Digest version. I can't imagine what people without TiVo did. Wait, I know! They changed the channel. But, it was like a car wreck, as long as you're not a victim, you want to watch the rescue to make sure everyone survives, or not.

Or, closer, a young person down a well. You know they're alive, but it takes forever to get them out. Take that, then collect the worst comics on the face of the earth, the ones with the free time, the clones already created by the past two seasons this show has survived, and have them comment on the rescue operation and make it funny.

I have decided, even if they do a Reader's Digest version, I'll wait for it to show up on Google News, right below whatever is going on Florida... always something going on in Florida...

Geeze, Loise!!!
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Mea Culpa to commandN!

The comment below was left on a blog entry in August that we made about commandN.

Brian is absolutely correct.

We miss Mike Laz's lively interaction with Amber.

In our defense, no matter on which show, we did see Leo standing, sitting, etc. next to Amber so often we identify them as the pair.

We ask for a mea culpa from the entire crew in giving credit where it wasn't due.

Brian McKechnie said...
To be clear - Leo never had anything to do with commandN except for a few appearances.
Mike Laz was the original co-host/founder but left after episode 69.
We're at 103 now and will continue to do it until people stop watching.
- Brian

The links in the comment, with the exception of the Blogger profile in Brian's name, were added by us to clarify the cast of characters.

PS: They are up to episode 104 now!!!
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Open Office and IBM_NYT Article

IF you are interested in Open Office software you want to read this article in today's NYT.

I.B.M historically has not been “with it” in competition with MS. But now that the Big Blue is not so big in this arena, they're hooking up with us MS rebels in the Open Source cause. I hope this is good news and they're not bringing their bad mojo into the camp.

There was a time IBM could be where MS is now. In fact there would be no MS. But they went the way of Ma Bell and stumbled over their own blind sided hubris. Have they eaten enough humble pie to have seen the light and understand what Open Source means? Or, are they coming in thinking they'll run the show?


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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

New Rule

Don't drink Alca Seltzer Night Time Cold medicine and then try to install Spiral Frog on your computer. Good Night
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Monday, September 17, 2007

Open Office 2.3 Blog Loader Test

I am writing this in Open Office 2.3 with the expressed purpose of exporting this to both Google Docs and to the Blogger web log.

  • I am just curious what else can be done

  • I couldn't get it to upload into Google Docs, yet.

  • There were problems mentioned here about uploading pictures to Blogger.

  • We'll test all of that

Now the question is, how many of these formatting features in will carry over to the

blog. There is the button link:

And the highlighting feature: FONT COLOR

And

Tables

Will

Copy?

Let's see what this puppy can do?

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OOO 2.3 Update

What I remember most about Open Office was the length of time it took to load. This seemed true of most anything coming out of Sun with a Java base. I just installed the new 2.3 version. It loaded very quickly after the obligatory registration bit in the beginning. What disturbed me was the constant interruptions from the firewall.

This program seemed to be in constant communication with the people at Sun. I am very curious as to what they are saying to each other.

The AutoCorrect seems to have a problem if you don't capitalize a word that should be so. I will look in to the documentation about that one.

There was a quick mention of extensions on the installation page. I was too eager to get to the installation to see what that is all about. Perhaps after the family goes to bed I'll go back and see.

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Bay Bridge Rebuild Time Lapse

This LINK to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Update on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission website was found on BOING-BOING

It is worth watching.

This is especially so if you ever lived in the San Francisco Bay area. I lived there during the Loma Prieta Quake and saw a chunk of this bridge collapse from my bedroom window. It felt good to see they are maintaining it.

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The Alienist Was Great, but..

Caleb Carr's second tome, The Angel of Darkness, took me forever to read. It's 623 pages could've been cut down to half of that without any loss of storyline. The unfortunate narration by what is supposed to be a reformed feral 19th Century youth, with the constant use of the word "what" for "that" made the reading even more tedious.

Carr's other book, The Alienist, was a must read. I picked it up and found myself taking it everywhere to get to the exciting ending. The Angel of Darkness, however, was constantly put down to pick up another book, only to get back to it when there was nothing else to read. I was determined to finish it.
I found the solution to the problem obvious and the end of the evil one contrived. The attention to 19th Century New York was an injection instead of part of the story. If you enjoyed The Alienist, do not feel obligated to rush out and buy its sequel. -30-


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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Watching the Emmys

I just had to compliment whoever it was who put together the nominations for the comedy writers. That was one funny string of sketches.
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Honor Flights

On CBS's Sunday Morning today was a piece on the Honor Flight organization that started in Hendersonville, North Carolina. They transport those elderly veterans who still live to see the WWII Memorial in D.C.


My father was a WWII veteran who died over thirty years ago. He took me to the memorial in lower Manhattan where the names of the war dead were inscribed on large stone walls. A lot of large stone walls. The fact that this monument was in his own town was good enough for him. He never spoke about the need for one in D.C. He didn't need it but this generation and generations to come do so they don't forget.

Locally in Massachusetts there are memorials in each of the over 300 towns. The most prominent is always the Civil War memorial. This is because so many young men from the Commonwealth died in bloody that war. In many, if not most, there is a standing statue of a soldier leaning on his rifle. He is looking off into the distance, alway south, keeping guard.

How soon will the ones for Iraq start looking for space?

We can't forget.

We won't forget the dead and the still living veterans. What I don't want is a an honor wall for Iraq as large as that for the WWII or the VietNam veterans.

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Saturday, September 15, 2007

Open Source Windows Apps link

On Technology Bites is a list of the 20 Open Source Windows Apps For You.

Of the twenty I would say I am running 16 of them. The link to Sundbird should mention the Thunderbird AddOn Lightning.

More on that at another time.

There was another link on Technology Bite to the fifty most influential bloggers. It's mentioned on Grazing Portal.

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There Should Be Something Today

It is a Saturday and I have the house to myself. There should be something to write today, but it is cloudy and my dishwasher doesn't work. Mice ate the wires. It tool $135.00 for the repairman to say that. It was free for him to tell me I needed an electrician. Crap!

So, this has not put me in the best of moods. Maybe later, after the game...


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Sunday, September 09, 2007

One of these Weekends...

I just completed filling in my Google Calendar for the rest of the year to coincide with the school calendar. It has four layers, the first two - appointments of a work and personal nature. The third is a layer showing the phases of the moon and the fourth national holidays.

When I first started tinkering with the Google calendar, I searched around of for special calendars to enhance it. I found what has to be close to a dozen. It took several months to whittle it down to these four. The other plug-in is the five day weather icons.

Then along came Lightning. This is the calendar module for Thunderbird.

Coming from MS Outlook, we expect a calendar to be part of the email program. Now it is. However, I find I am more likely to open the Google Calendar in Firefox than to hit the tab to open Lightning. Too much of a good thing? I don't think so. The Lightning calendar is linked to both the work and personal calendars, so when I make changes, they appear almost instantly on Lightening. I would like different colors for information from different calendars, but not yet.

If I don't have Internet access, the information is still there for me.

On a totally different topic, today is the anniversary of the Attica prison riot in upstate New York. I was overseas at the time of this blot on the country's history, but I think it was a major tipping point in history and should be remembered.


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Saturday, September 08, 2007

A Picnic and Birthday Party

Today was a hot late summer day in New England.

It started with a picnic in Pawtucket followed by a birthday party in Sharon. Monday the workweek really starts for our growing student. This is the weekend to do nothing that even closely resembles work. -30-


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Went to San Francisco Last Night

At least my voice did.

I did a live broadcast to a group of people gathered on Mason Street to hear me talk. The host used FWD as our contact portal. I must say it worked very well. I could clearly hear all the comments and questions and everyone remarked on how rich my voice sounded.

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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Jott Message Came Through

It was the way I set it that was preventing the messages from being relayed to Bell Tower News.

I had used my Blogger user name where it called for the blogs own ID number. As I mentioned in the clip below, you can find how to get that number in Blogger's own help file.

Good Night Gracie and Happy Birthday Melissa.

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Jott Blog Post

It is the blogger ID. See help. Not your email address.
Click here to listen

Powered by Jott.com - Try it at 1 (866) JOTT123 - Jott.com

Sent Jott Comment but...

I used Jott to send a blog entry to Belltower news, but don't see it here... hmmm. Time to check settings, I suppose...
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Jaiku Comments have no limit.

In one of my first Jaiku comments I mentioned not understanding the use of a blog with a 140 character limit. CAW commented:

"My guess is that this is to promote the notion of putting in lots of
quick little random thoughts throughout the day, rather than writing a
few large treaties. Jaiku is, after all, a
micro
-blogging
site. However, you do sometimes see people start a message with
basically a teaser subject within the 140 characters, and then
immediately comment on their own Jaiku with the lengthier details."


Now that makes a lot more sense for me. I will probably most use it to make quick Jott entries open for later comment. Just when we gave up finding new ways to blog, Jaiku and Jott come along and wake us up!
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