The Cook Give Directions

This photo comes from Flickr by way of Performancing.

I just added the Flickr add-on, read the directions and was able to go to the Flickr site and grab this shot of The Cook Give Directions."

There is a MySpace blog editor add-on as well. It's a little more complicated, but if you blog to MySpace a lot, and you use FireFox 2.0, you should get it.

powered by performancing firefox

Open Office 2.1

I downloaded Open Office 2.1 from the OpenOffice.org site. To quote their Home Page:

OpenOffice.org 2.1 is recommended for all users, as it represents a significant improvement over all previous versions. Among other things:

• Multiple monitor support for Impress
• Improved Calc HTML export
• Enhanced Access support for Base
• Even more languages
• Automatic notification of updates

If you're going to use OpenOffice.org, and you should, go right away to the templates page here.
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Black & White

This is the MS Zaandam at the cruise pier in Victoria, British Columbia. This was a dark, color

Black & White
Originally uploaded by sgtret.

photograph that I converted to black and white and brought the background light to the fullest.

I like it.

First we had to figure out how to get the photos from Picasa to Flickr. Then we had to figure out how to get the photos from Flickr to the blog. Basically its the Google server to the Yahoo Server and then back again to the Google server. All that to get better photo position in the blog and the neat captions.
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Black & White

Black & White
Originally uploaded by sgtret.

Black & White

Black & White
Originally uploaded by sgtret.

I Love Lucy at the Wolf

I Love Lucy at the Wolf,
originally uploaded by sgtret.

From the left, Sam, Eli, Sarah and Ben as Fred, Ethel, Lucy and Ricky in a tribute to the 1950's sitcom I Love Lucy.

Picasa to Flickr

I have been neglecting my Flickr account because of the ease of use Picasa has brought to uploading photos to Google photos. What I was also neglecting was the huge archive of photos I had already uploaded there along with the associated community of people with common interests in the groups to which I subscribe.

This was especially noticed when I was looking further down in this blog and saw the Flickr.com photo strip along the right side. It had photos from out trip to Alaska in May on the Zaandam.

Time to upgrade. The photos in the strip as of today are from Thanksgiving.

The point here, is the way to get the photos, as they've been finished by Picasa into Flickr it to email them directly from Picasa into Flickr using your Gmail account. Simple as that.

If you Google Flickr into Picasa you will find one solution and another that involves program language and DOS commands. I am not in need of something that sophisticated. Email to Flickr from Picasa, slam-bam-thank you Mam!
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Ben as Ricky and Sam as Fred

Sam and Ben do a number from their version of I Love Lucy,
with Ben as Ricky and Sam as Fred. Sarah played Lucy and
Eli did a wonderful acting job as Ethel.

A grand time was had by all.

Go to our Google photos site to see more.



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Donna Bogatin vs. Google

Just out of idle curiosity, what horrible thing did Google do to Donna Bogatin to make her hate it so? Did they make it difficult for her to be one of the first on her block to gain access to GMail?

There is a comment on one of her attacks on Google's Gmail calling her a yellow journalist. I don't think she's that important. I just think she's having a hard time to come up with topic for her posts so he rehashes the same theme.

Poor thing!

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Picasa is Back Up!

I downloaded the recommended beta version from the help forum, returned the IE7 settings to default and BINGO! We're in busines. This is a picture of Thomas and is first tooth loss.

From 7th Birthday ...

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Picasa upgrade- BAD!!!!

If you use Picasa, don't upgrade. I hit the upgrade button automatically and lost all ability to upload to both this blog and my Google web albums. Alas. It was right afer I paid good money for more storage space as well!

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Up and Running!!!

The good folks at RegisterFly.com finally were able to correct the URL redirection and bring Belltowernews.com back up.

We were never really gone, the Blogger.com address was still working.

It just wasn't the same without the anchor URL.

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Belltowernews.com still down

Registerfly.com is still working on bringing the belltowernews.com URL transfer up. For now we just need to go to the blogger address http://randomthoughtgrazings.blogspot.com/ for now.

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If you came looking for us...

If you came looking for us at belltowernews.com, and you came upon a page with links to steeplechasers, wine and drugs, it is because of a difficulty we had with our domain registrar. There was a message in our e-mail early this morning saying all was better. Now we shall see.

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Thanksgiving 2006

This Spalding women group hug demonstrates the general feelings surrounding the family gathering last night. A daughter, mother and two aunts celebrate the meaning of family or, more likely, are goofing around while subconsciously celebrating.

The turkey was splendid, the side dishes superb, the company heartwarming and the evening to be remembered.

The kids are all taller then their mothers now, the nests are are less empty, but this flocking together a few times a year allows for evaluation of the efforts of the past to allow days like this to occur.

It is for this we are all thankful.
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Dr. Adams

  

iLike.com and Mary Foster Conklin- A good thing!

Mary Foster Conklin on iLike™

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Firefox 2.0 Up and Running!

No surprise there. I was disappointed that some of my priceless extensions weren’t ready in time for the grand opening. The beta has been out for quite a while. Most of them are quickly being updated, but one of my favorites, colortabs, still hasn’t been fixed

In the theme department, avoid MiniFox. It kills the ability to jump from theme to theme. I had to go into about:config and go to skins to change the MINIFOX entry to DEFAULT to get back the ability to change skins.

No big deal, but I think it poor form to take our configuration ability when designing a skin. That isn’t an error of omission but an overt act.

As has been said in most of the reviews I’ve read there are no startling changes but the feel of it is much smoother and there is less incompatibility with some of the more IE oriented websites.

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Words of Power on a sad Sunday

My friend Richard Power has a blog going at Words of Power.

If you want to dive into a world with a whole lotta words, all of which are full of Power, this is the place to go.

I will admit to being somewhat overwhelmed by the amount and intensity of this blog. It crosses many causally directed paths, not all in the same blind direction. The environment and the current political atmosphere seem to be the paths most trod.

My only word of caution is this is not a cheerful blog. This is not a cheerful world; so if you’re looking for a quite, calm and careless place, avoid Words of Power.

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RIP

Good bye, dear sweet man, father and joy to the world.
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