Rainlander Review

Rainlander, is a desktop calendar/events/todo program that resembles the widgets on Mac screens. It has a sister program called Rainmeter. I have installed both and then unitstalled Rainmeter.

Rainlander will stay on our desktop for now. It’s a calendar with a mouse over pop-up for dates where you have added events. Rest the mouse pointer on the date and a balloon pops up with the body of the saved event.
There is a separate box wherein are listed the events for the number of days you have configured the box to display. There is also a Todo box with checkable items that can be edited invidually, crossed out or removed. Display of both the events and the Todo boxs are optional.

The calendar can be linked to Outlook and other programs such as iCalendar. It’s useful unobstructive and so far has not crashed windows. This is a good thing.

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Blog Writer — First Entry

This is my first enty using Blog Writer. If I wasn’t just called to dinner it would be longer, but we have needs that must be met.

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Flickr : Famous Grazing

THE OFFLINE BLUES

THE OFFLINE BLUES     

Considering what is going on down along the Gulf Coast along with the misery inflicting the world in general, it seems a little petty to complain about Comcast losing service to my neighborhood.  So, I’ll be petty this morning without asking for pity.

This is Saturday morning.  We have been without Internet service since Wednesday afternoon.  I have not felt the brunt of it until this morning because we are connected at work.  However, as anyone who works in Corporate America knows, personal use of the Internet, especially for blogging, is Verboten.

Our online banking and webpage modification for other people can’t be done under the corporate umbrella.  Well, it CAN be done, but from where I sit, I know it shouldn’t be done, so I won’t do it.  I can go to CNN.Com and check the news and weather, but I can’t go to MyYahoo! or Gmail, email.com, etc.  That is all personal and I really don’t want my personal information floating around on the corporate “temporary” cache.  Neither should you.

What this is giving me is time to explore the offline features of software usually connected to the Internet. This is being written in MS Word with the Google “Blog This“plug-in installed.   I just tried Word’s scrap on the last paragraph.  It was a choice about which I knew nothing until I saw on the tips feature by Amber McArthur on Leo LaPorte’s Call For Help show out of Toronto.  That was a show we TiVo’d before the cable blackout.  We love TiVo!

But we will now miss the shows from Wednesday to today.  I know, boo-hoo.  When the service is restored this will be come a “Hello Mother, Hello Father” letter from summer camp, but I need to write something or I will go blind.  Okay maybe not blind, but I will definitely lose my skills as a blogger.
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Redhead Whimpiness Confirmed

In this morning’s Scotsman, an online news source I read every morning, it was confirmed that people with what is being called the redhead gene are more susceptible to pain from heat and cold than those with darker hair. They are more likely to not like going to the dentist as well.

I could have told them that and saved a great deal or research time and money.

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Exhausted by a Week of Rest

This week off reminded me what it was like to be retired. Not a moment free.

It was all considered by others to be available time for tasks other than work. When I return to work on Monday, I will more fully appreciate the set routine; where time is filled with tasks that for the most part have a beginning and an end.

Where a house is concerned, the beginning is the day you move in and the end is the day you move out. Unless you are moving to a funeral home, the tasks for the next house begin soon after the ones for the last ended.
As I remember it, the last time, the tasks for the old house went on for quite a while after we moved.

There is the fantasy of living in a self healing rental unit. I did that for 32 years. Of course, it wasn’t one rental unit, more like a dozen or so in that span of years. Each was probably, in its way, better than the last; like getting a better car.

What we had there were neighbors of similar financial and social status, on top of us, next to us and in some circumstances below us. I did try to avoid not living on the first floor. Being somewhat heavy of foot, my mere walking was cause enough for conflict.

So, no matter where you live, there is always a good and a bad to it. While you’re thinking of the next better thing to come along, don’t forget to enjoy what you have while it is still yours.
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(posted using Blogger for MS Word)

Flaw in Firefox fixed

In a recent ZDNet article regarding a security flaw in Firefox it was mentioned that a patch would be coming soon. That patch has been issued.

It fixs a flaw which can occur if an overly long URL which also contains a dash is used to abuse the protection provided by Firefox.

The other big news at Firefox is the release of 1.5 beta.

Of course, I am going to download it as soon as possible. Silly me. I am a sucker for betas above 1.0

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That’s it for Online Photo uploading

The one option we didn’t mention was the upload choice now available in Blogger.com itself.

In the toolbar right on top of the message editor, next to the spell checker, is the new upload image box.

I just clicked it and uploaded another photo of Thomas at bat. “Go Matt!” he likes to yell at the Rox games.
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Late Summer Shadows — Two

This is the other side of the dog walking.
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The late Summer Sun shadow play on walking the dog.
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(Both this and the one above were published here by Hello! I discovered there is a way to take out the Picasa symbol in the setup.)

We all know this is the IP for Home, right?

This is the shot I chose to upload from Zoto.com. There is a lttle more control here about the blog message and the size of the photo than is readily available at Flickr.com. So far, I have liked Zoto and Photobucket the best for uploading photos on line.

Next we try Hello. This resides on the hard disk.
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(note: When I posted this, it shut down Firefox, all three windows with I don’t know how many tabs open. I didn’t like that at all!)

Who is this tall guy?

Who is this tall guy?,
uploaded by sgtret.

This is a first day of middle school photo being uploaded to the blog using flickr.com
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Newly Planted School Flowers

Posted by: sgtret on Buzzn

This shot of newly planted flowers at the school was uploaded using Buzznet.com.

There was a problem with the time settings. This was posted after some of the other photoblogging samples above, but was listed below them because of the time difference in the blogger server and the buzznet server.

I will look deeper into the buzznet site to see if that can be changed. Otherwise, if it matters, I can manually change the date and time in the online Blogger.com editor.
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Rock Still life from Photobucket

This is being sent using the last of the online photo editors that can send photos to Blogger.com.

It‘s called Photobucket. An unfortunate name, but I like that you can edit the photos size right from the comment box.

This is the only one of the three we just tested that had that feature.

Next we return to Flickr, Hello and Zoto to compare the tried and true to the new.
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Photobucket

This is a test post from Photobucket.com

Trying FotoFlix Directly again

w:bloggar was on, I turned it off. See if this works. It did. So FotoFlix doesn’t work using Firefox when either blogger.com dashboard is open or w:bloggar is signed in to Belltowernews.com.

Posted by sgtret

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Trying FotoFlix

In the help section in blogger.com under photo uploading, FotoFlix was listed as a contender. I have uploaded this photo to see how it is displayed.

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Posted by sgtret

bloggar editor behind the times? Nope!

w::Bloggar is a little behind the times with the Blogger.com features. Unless my delving into the help files missed something, you cannot upload a file yet to display on the message from the hard drive. Images, such as the Tibetan Eye Chart in this message, need to have already be uploaded.

It is still the best offline editor for most of the online blogging services. Don’t restrict its user for just the blogger.com web site.

I will send an email to w::bloggar’s author to see if that is in the works.
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Good Morning!

Not much to say this morning. I didn’t have to get up early this morning, so my eyes opened at six. I told them to go back to sleep, but they wouldn’t listen to me. Things to do, places to go, people to see.

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Never follow a kid or animal act.

This afternoon I sent a photo out as a Gmail attachment to people in my contacts list from whom I haven’t heard in a while. So far three people long off the radar responded with a wow as to the changes in the photo of our son.

So, if you’re looking for a response from those who aren’t using email as their primary means of communication with the rest of the world, a photo of a growing child will at least generate a Wow.

It’s better than nothing.

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Jonathon Strange and Dr. Norrell

Okay, here‘s the strange thing:

Yesterday while waiting at the Braintree T. stop for a guest from Kenya, I happened into a nearby Borders to kill time. There I came across a book . It was called Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Upon completion, I intend to review here and in length at Field Grazing.

Then today, as I was aimlessly wandering in the world of Next Blog, I came across the illustration pictured to the left. Unfortunately, the site was in a language foreign to me. It do look as if it was a positive review.

I will continue to read it and let you know when I am done. Don’t hold your breath, it’s a long book.

If you are impatient, you can go to the Amazon.com page about the book and read the professional and personal reviews near the bottom of the page. The only slightly negative review was from someone who only read 127 pages. This was more a reflection of the reader than the book.

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First Day of Middle School

It’s not like the first day of kindergarten, but is almost as emotional. Sixth Grade is a big step for a child. It’s a big step for a parent at well.

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Back to work

I am not sure why, but three day weekends don’t bring me rest.

Perhaps it is because I know when I return this morning there will be two days worth of work waiting for me on my desk. When you are in a 24/7 business, a day off just puts things on hold. It’s not like a factory where the last thing you did is waiting for the next thing you’ll do.

There is no freeze-frame, no pause button. The film just keeps running - leaving you to rewind and continue from there. You still needing to have seen the entire feature before you go home.

A bit of stretch there, but I am careful not to talk about the particulars of my business due to a blog ban.

Damn Blog Bans!

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This is how nicknames happen:

In this year’s class at school, there will be a boy with the same first name as our son.

Not wanting to confuse the teacher and the rest of the school, our son has decided to give himself a nickname.

He is of the opinion that it is better to give yourself a nickname than have a less than flattering moniker pinned by others.

Our son has decided to call himself Books.


We like it.

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Say Hello to Hurricane Maria:

The National Weather Service says it is moving north and at this time is no threat to land. If you look at the larger image on their web page, you will see that it is well out into the Atlantic. If it keeps going north it will peter out in the colder latitudes. If it takes a left turn, it will come right up the street from the ocean. I will watch this young lady.
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Next Blog Ramblings

Occasionally I like to drift through the bloggersphere, a smaller version of the entire blogsphere, by clicking on the Next Blog box on the upper right corner of most blogger.com created blogs.

Doing this takes you around the world, as well as around philosophical, political and religious circles. There are many asian sites where the text comes up only as ?? marks.

Sad.

I would like to see what they have to say. Most of them are rich in graphics and worthy of hitting the page down.

There are an amazing number of Anime cartoon based blogs, and an unfortunately large number of self pity selections as well.

Thankfully, most of them let you know in the heading how deep the self-pity runs allowing you to hit the Next Blog button quickly. There is one on knitting that comes up several times for some reason.

It certainly is worth a visit to the other bloggers if for nothing else, to see why the hell you’re doing it as well.

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Brockton ROX

We attended a Brockton ROX minor league baseball game this afternoon- evening. It was a fun time. The baseball seemed to be background noise to all of the other events surrounding us.

Every thing from Face Painting to inflated jumping areas for the children to sausages and funnel cakes for the grown-ups.

Four small servings of chicken tenders and four waters cost $23.00. Considering the price of gas these days, I suppose that was a bargain.

The Rox lost to the Jersey Jacksals 7 - 2 but they still go into the playoffs as Division Champions. In case you were interested.
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Flickr as Yahoo!

When I went into my Flickr account I was given the option of combining it with my Yahoo! account. I could see no reason for doing this, other than that Flickr is now owned by Yahoo! and I am sure they are integrating their data base and will soon require all Flickr members to be members of Yahoo! Like the Google Account, this way all I have to do is open the Yahoo! account and all of the features will be available by menu.

The above is an example of how decisions are made around here.

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Amber Mac

Leo LaPorte‘s Call For Help on G4-Tech TV has a PEI co-host. Her name is Amber McArthur...

On the web she calls her self Amber Mac.

She produces a video pod cast regarding up to the minute tech news and sites on the web. The podcast can be found at Amber’s personal sight and at various other video ventures around the net. Do a tag search for CommandN on YouTube.com

That’s all for now.
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(sent via MS Word)

This is our first try using MS Word to post

This is our first try at Blogger for MS Word.
I will change the Font on the next line
If the font has been changed from Times Roman to Georgia then there is no Problem changing fonts.
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Prophetic Song

At Fifi’s Grafitti there is a post entitled

"new o'leans"

It speaks of the river and the Army Corps of Engineers attempts over the years to control it. It mentions that the Army Corps of Engineers is not God. I am glad someone is brave enough to say that.

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Okay, that was a long week, but...

We are off for a 3 day weekend, though, you guessed it, I am on call. It is only on Saturday and Sunday. On Labor Day, I actually have the day off. I might even take a dip in the pool, before it freezes over. Ah, New England!

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Non Stop Day

This morning I didn’t have time to make any entry into the blog. I worked late at home and then had to go in early to complete the work.

My previous boss would have said it’s bad time management, but this was just end of the month overload. I have one more thing to do and then I will be off all but one day next week.

That much time off may be too much for me because everything I didn’t do for the week off will be sitting on my desk the Monday I return.

Bitch and Moan done.
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Famous Grazing Portal

We’ve registered grazingporrtal.net as the URL for the Famous Grazing Portal. You will notice the two “r’s”. That was a typo, but a typo worked for Google, so we decided to keep it that way. The URL will be connected to the site later today.

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Long Monday

Monday is rarely fun.

Yesterday was not only not fun it was tedious. I don’t mind hard work, but when you know a lot of it is being done to justify the existence of others, tedium sets in. Sometimes volunteer work is harder because of that.

When I volunteered to serve on a town commission ten years ago it seemed like a good idea. Now it’s become an obligation not cheerfully fulfilled. This could be because of greater responsibility naturally assumed with experience. It could be because my regular work day is so much fuller as well. I am just tired.
Moan and Groan!
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Is it good news when it’s not as bad?

Is it good news when the news you get is not as bad as it could’ve been? I don’t know. They’re saying up to 100 homes were destroyed but the surge from the lake north of the City of New Orleans did not extensively overtop the levee.

It wasn’t one of the biblical plagues of Egypt, many people didn’t die, not so much because the storm wasn’t as bad as expected but because there was a mass evacuation.

Let’s see what it all looks like in the morning light.

My workday went to ten this evening. I expected it to go as late as eleven. I guess in a very minor way, this is good news because it isn’t as bad as it could have been. Why am I feel all sorts of East European all of a sudden?

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New Habits

Every morning I start up Firefox and open the tabs for email.

I have added the blogger page and the 21Portal page to this tab. This is to inspire me to make at least one blog entry a day. They may not be sophisticated, contain graphics and links, but at least they will hopefully guarantee a time line better than before.

The news this morning is Hurricane Katrina threatening my second favorite city. It’s been downgraded from a category 5 to a 3 but 100 mph winds still scare the hell out of me. We’ll see how the city does. Off to work...

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This was the first Sunday I have had off

In a long time.

I looked at my calendar last night and saw one blank day, today. I thought it was a mistake at first, but realized no one wanted a piece of me today. Of course, tomorrow I will start work at 7:00 a.m. and will probably work until 10:00 p.m.

There is balance in the world.

I discovered the 21publish site last night so that’s what took up much of my day. The good thing is I didn’t feel guilty at all for playing with it all day. It was like watching cartoons all day.

The whole day wasn’t wasted. The pool was repaired, the door to the dining room was fixed, a spontaneous lunch with the family from the Vineyard, Twelve Hawks’s Traveler was finished, but none of that was on the calendar. It was all spontaneous.

What a gas.
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21Publish About Page

Famous Grazing was started as an attempt to use every available blog publishing tool on the Internet. At the time of start up, the choices were limited to Blogger, Web Page, Live Journal and a few others. Now there are dozens.

This, our first site, Belltowernews.com. was started using Blogger when it was a private company and cost money. We then opened a Web Page site on our own server. Since then we’ve gone from b2Evolution to MSN Blogs. Examples are:

Field Grazing
Sea Grazing
Artistic Grazing
Grazing in Another Field
Butterflies Grazing
Dragons Grazing
Flickr Grazing
Ghosts Grazing
Grazed Bare
Grazing in the Brave Net
Grazing News
Random Space (MSN)
Multi-Grazing
Open Grazing
Other Grazing
Serene Grazing
Grazing at Xanga
Bell Tower News
Home Grazing

Each of the above is free. There are pay sites, and some of the above offer bigger storage and more features, but each of them is perfectly okay without shelling out a dime.

Below is a snapshot of a page created on a trial basis at at the pay site, TypePad:



Enjoy the blog you create here or at any of the above blog creation sites.
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FAMOUS GRAZING PORTAL!

We have opened a “portal” for the Famous Grazing Series.

It is over at 21Publish. We were playing around with a local Apache server when we came upon a comment about 21Publish. We set the portal up and created two personal blogs to fill out the set up.

If you feel like have your own blog affiliated with Famous Grazing, feel free to join. Any obnoxious or dangerous sites will be deleted.
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Firefox Yahoo Warning

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Click on the Whoops! to see the error message you get when you try to sign up for Yahoo!’s new photomail and use anything except MS Internet Explorer,
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Traveler Twelve Hawks

A reluctant review

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Traveler by John Twelve Hawks doesn’t warn you loudly that it is book one of the Fourth Realm Series. That could be because there is no book two, or three. It leaves you dangling.

(Spoiler Alert:)

As you approach ten to fifteen pages from the end, you realize there is no room for a neat ending. It must be either part of a continuing story, or the author is going to use the all too familiar arrival of the U.S. Cavalry. Here it was the former.

In most reviews I don’t give that much away, but I believe a fair warning, not already provided by the publisher, is needed before you buy this book.

By all means buy this book, though the book is short on sand, it certainly is a decent story worth reading. I hope the plot thickens for the second book, if it is coming. I will buy that one as well.

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G4 - Call For Help

G4 - Call For Help: "

Waterproof Your Gadgets Premieres: Monday 08/29, 11am ET / 8am PT
> Full Show Schedule

Sent from Firefox with JustBlogIt!

Sideblog

Amazing what one letter off can do.

I was going to my sideblog.com page when I left out the letter “b” and was taken to sidelog.com, a Nepalese webhosting service. Watch your step out there.
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If only there was someone on the other end.

The installation of Google Talk was seamless. I have restarted Google Desktop and all seems to be working out well. Now there only needs to be someone on the other end of the line with whom I can communicate to see how Google Talk is any different that Yahoo! Messenger or AOL or MSN or ICQ, etc. Trillian here we come!

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It has only been 85 years?

In this morning’s online NYT there was an On This Day feature imbedded in the story I was reading about Google Talk beta. (More on that later.)

Today’s issue mentioned it was on this date in 1920 the Constitution was amended to allow women the privilege of voting.

Think about that. Women in this country of the brave and the free have only been allowed to vote for 85 years.

This means there are people alive today who were alive when women couldn’t vote nationally. I know Montana and perhaps a few other states allowed women to vote and run for local offices, such as the school board, but they couldn’t vote for congressman, senator or the president.

Only 85 years. To quote myself 40 years ago, “that blows my mind!” It was something I knew in general, but to have it displayed as an aniversary for today brought it the front of the line.
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Google Sidebar starts off well, but...

It was disappointing to try Google Sidebar and not have as much fun with it as I did with Google Earth. Sidebar looked fine, it was easily configured and, for the most part, did everything it said it would do. Unfortunately, it also did something that wasn’t good. It shut down all of my Internet browsers. The sidebar itself looked things up with abandon, changed the news, checked the weather, popped up photos found in the “My Photos” subdirectory.

But, when I went to SnapfilesPro.com to write a review for it, I couldn’t get in. I checked everything, but the only way to get back online was to take the sidebar out of the startup folder.

I will try it again latter in the week under different configurations to see how it does. If I find a way to coexist with it, I will certainly return here and tell you how. My wide screen eMachines laptop certainly has room on the side for it.

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Google Earth is FUN!

Okay, this is something made for me. You can download it, use it all you want, as along as you know this was made for me. I love maps. Google Earth Software takes maps.google.com to another level.

This is the review I wrote for Snapfiles.com:

As a person who loves maps and going places, Google Maps is wonderful. The installation was faultless, and the interface is practically spiritual. I went to the small town where I was born on the Atlantic Seaboard and zoomed in on the house where we lived. I could see the milk truck behing the high fence. This program has layer upon layer. Go to San Francisco and click on the Churches box. I didn’t know there were that many churches in town. Need a pharmacy or gas station? This will not only show you where they are but what they look like. Can you tell I played with this one for a while? That’s why I say, have a lot of spare time before you install this.

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Malika and Chantea

See The Entry Below

Chanty Comes to Vist

This is Chanty. She‘s come up from Virgina with her mother to attend in Cambodian Water Festival being held this weekend in Lowell, MA.  Believe it or not, she‘€™s cuter than this photograph would have you believe.
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Happy Birthday Ally!

I was afraid I wouldn’t make in time to wish my dear friend Ally a Happy Birthday.

The good news is I got the system back up at 2335 and was able to get the message out before the holiday expired.

Now I am going to bed.
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Bad weather coming

You probably won’t get any more entries today. There’s bad weather coming and the river is rising.
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Blogger.com In House Photo Update

We haven’t used the blogger.com online editor in a while.

When we went online to correct a problem with Zoto.com and the ‘ key, we noticed an announcement that you can now upload photos using blogger.com’s online editor. We didn’t know that.

Of course, three isn’t any particular photo we would like to upload at the moment, so we’ll just pick one from the bunch: A church side window representing the rose.

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Bigoted News Coverage

A story reported in Yahoo News, which seems to have originated in Boston’s Channel 5 News has a line in it that reads:

"I lost my green card. I lost everything," she said.

Perhaps I am being oversensitive, but this line is telling me the author of the article wants me to know this building was occupied by non-citizen workers. I am sure the poor woman and the 41 other souls who where made homeless by the fire lost more than an easily replaced government document.

Later on in the piece the lines: "It had been termed incendiary. Arson has not been ruled out, but has not been deemed arson as of this time," DiLiddo said.— Officials are offering $5,000 for information that may lead to an arrest.“

Not a crime, but we’ll give you five grand if you can help us arrests someone anyway. Though it’s only a little local fire story, to the 41 people now without a home, it’s a big deal.

A little more care could have gone into the writing, or to put the blame where it belongs, the editing,.
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No More Noisy Box!

Having gone completely laptop, the trick is to learn the keyboard. If I practice enough, that should be no problem. I have XL hands that need to fit on this compressed space. Also, the keys outside of the alpha keys are not all in the same place as they were on my microsoft wireless.

The other thing I want to learn as well is the touch pad. It sits right where my palm normally sits and there fore, while I am typing the mouse arrow flies all over the screen.

Having Spell Catcher loaded is a big help. When I make a spelling error like capitalizing the first two letters, which I do on any keyboard, it automatically corrects it. This is true in all applications where I type, not only in Word.

Then there is that annoying Fn key where the Ctrl key should be. Everytime I hit it, it changes all of the keys on the right side of the keyboard into the number pad. To undo it.

I have to find another key over by the right side of the F-keys. It has replaced the caps lock key as the one I am most likely to tear our of the keyboard.

My hand also still leaves the keyboard to grab for the mouse and squeezes thin air. Once the hands learn the ropes, I hope that will end as well. The heat coming from the keyboard is a minor distraction for now, but if it gets hotter, I could see that being a problem. I bought an underside cooling rack which seems to be helping somewhat.

Okay, it’s time to study for the test. You will know when the test is close, the study will change to the word CRAM!

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Ann Looking at Martha

Don‘€™t mind me, once I find a new way to blog, I like to play with it for a while.
I know that can get boring to anyone foolish enough to read this blog. I see it like visiting the basement of a man who collects commode plungers, the fascinating thing is not the tool collection, but the fact that such a collection exists.
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Why is Zoto so easy?

It just seems to me that Zoto should be a bit more complicated.  It just does everything I want it to do too easily. That makes me nervous.  There should be more loops to jump through, more frustrations to suffer for this to be real.  I mean, if it keeps up being this easy to  use, than anyone can do it and I won‘€™t feel so special for having figured it out.
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Zoto button

Sometimes it’s easier to write...

Sometimes it’s easier to write when you think no one is reading what you write. Then you get an email complaining about your erratic postings. Even though you think most of what you’ve written is petty, complaining, or just mindless rambling, it’s a shock to think that people make it part of their daily routine to read it.

Jeneane Sessum mentioned this in her blog. I discovered it when doing one of my NEXT BLOG wanderings in blogger.

Another blogger selection I was reading almost daily was Boogie Street. Then in November of last year he announced he was going cold turkey and though not taking it down, he was no longer making any entries. He came back in January of this year to post a photo of a found child from the tsunami that hit southeast asia.

The author of Boogie Street calls himself Mr. Zip. He and I corresponded over one or two things regarding his art and the display of it on other web sites. He seemed a civilized human being.

Now it‘s time for me to get back to reading the news before going off to work for the man.
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Zoto GIF Conversion

Divide 1 by Seven, follow the numbers and then connect the numbers dividable by three.

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This was a test of the GIF conversion to JPG for uploading by the Zoto uploading program.  It works.
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Second Zoto Test

This is being blogged directly from the Zoto web site.  The one below of Andrew and his Jag was sent using Zoto‘s Gmail settings.  If there is a way to set the size of the photo blog display using the Gmail method, I haven’€™t seen it.  When sending the photo to Blogger using Zoto you have a choice between small, medium and large.  The image here is the small selection.
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Andrew and His Jag

Welcome To Freeport

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Testing Zoto Image Upload

This is being uploaded using Zoto instead of Hello!  I have tried Zoto before and it didn‘€™t work.  They are claiming it will work now.  This will be the proof!
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Obscene Comments on Bravejournal

The Famous Grazing page opened on Bravenet is the constant target of obscene comments. It is not a controversial blog, if anything it’s a blog with very little use. As with most Famous Grazing blogs it was opened to see how blogs are produced there and whether not this would be a recommended method of opening a blog. If you don’t mind all of the advertising, pop ups and constant barrage of sales pitches from Bravenet, it is free and there is a set of loyal fans in the community.

It’s just that because Bravenet is well known for reasons other than blogs, a lot of strange people go there to take advantage of the free services. There is a link to Bravenet on the side bar of this blog if you’re curious.

Off to the Salt Mines.
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Interesting Essay on NPR

Driving home in traffic this afternoon I was listening to NPR’s feature. “This I Believe.” The base line of the story was “Go to the funeral.” It was well thought out and made a good point about doing the right thing. The words that struck me were when she said in everyday life it’s not a conflict between Evil and The Right Thing, but a more mundane The Right Thing or Nothing. Very wise.
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RIP

Rest in Peace Peter.
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So that’s why I don’t listen!

This Report in Yahoo! News tells of why men don’t hear women when their talking. Good Lord! I thought I was just going deaf!
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As you can see, not only is Bell Tower News back up, but I�ve gotten the Picasa untility Hello! to work again.
You may have noticed a lacking of graphics attached to entries. That was because Hello! wasn‘t working for me.
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This is Admiral Peary‘s house on Eagle Island in Maine. You can only get there by boat. If you are interested in history and like a nice boat ride, it is worth a visit. =30=

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Profile Photo

I am trying to make this picture my profile picture but blogger is insisting it doesn‘t exit on my server. I thought if I uploaded it here, I could find a way to make it my profile image, 

The Good News!

Okay, we’re back in business. I will probably be tweaking this set up quite a lot when I find the time but it’s good to see Bell Tower News back in action. Though I will probably spend more time at Field Grazing, which resides on a server of my own, this is still the rood Famous Grazing blog so it will be kept up to date. The archives here are worth visiting for the photos alone. Though I haven’t posted many photos here for a while, I intend for that to change as the blogging season grows near.
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First attempt to Bloggar the changed Template.

All of the entries made so far since the change in template have been made through the Blogger web site. This will be the first test run posting using w::bloggar 4.0
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Still Dropping Down?

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STILL NOT SURE WHY THIS PAGE IMPLODED

If this message is still at the bottom of the side panel, then Blogger has done nothing to correcr whatever their change in the banner did to the blog settings. I will hold off on this blog for a while and use Field Grazing as the primary blog for the Famous Grazing Series.
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