Malika and Chantea

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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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Old Logo

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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