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Went to the Rossini Festival this week. The Rossini is a great big Italian Street fair with food, wine, music, art. We usually see a lot of our friends, eat some nice food and have a great time. It does amuse me, though, that this Italian fair also has Revolutionary war reenactors and belly dancers among other attractions.
A very happy birthday to one of my faithful readersas he celebrates his day of birth in Japan!!
Woohoo!
Image: ‘He9s so Pleased33′
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Yup..I upgraded my Flock browser to the new Eco-Edition.
Pretty green color and I love the recycle logo for the reload button (heh)
I am sure I will also enjoy the environmental news sites they have preloaded in the RSS area.
Go grab your own copy or learn more
Flock Browser: Eco-Edition | Getting Starte
Today is Earth Day! You can tell because Google has a different logo!!
My school is hosting the local Earth Fest this weekend and it should be nice (please, no rain!). But, my Techy-Feely thoughts are turning to some neat sites I have seen that showcase our world via mashups and APIs.
First Up: Flickrvision
This is hypnotic and great fun. Watch the map swing back and forth as folks upload photos to Flickr from all around this globe of ours. Awesome to see the photography and then…just awesome that it includes the entire world!
Next Up: Twittervision and TwittEarth
Same idea just using tweets from Twitter. I am still rather new to Twitter but it has been on fire since last year and lots of folks use the microblogging tool as a replacement for IM as well as a way to just shout out to the world. You can watch those shout outs via both of these sites. I even caught my own tweet on Twittearth!!
Next Up: GoogleMaps
I cannot beat this blogger’s list of 50 things to do with Google Mashups..so I will let him do the heavy lifting for me! My favorite on this list? Map the 7 Wonders of the World
Now, get out today and enjoy this amazing planet of ours!!!
It is unanimous….we ALL miss P365.
But, fundamentally, I am lazy. So, I just don’t think I am up to the picture a day duty right now.
My compromise…a picture a week from what I take. That actually might be harder!
Welcome to POW (the Picture Of the Week)
Yeah…I know it should be the POTW..but I didn’t like that name as much.
This week – the Green Belt test for Iaido. It went very well!
Perhaps not reading T-F? It is Shutdown Day – shut off your computer for 24 hours.
Can I do it?
Can you do it?
Why do it?
Well, I can probably think of some good reasons.
Consider it…I am.
Thanks to my pal Mary N. for the tip!
So, as we sat and ate a lazy Sunday breakfast today of whole wheat waffles with maple syrup from Maine and macadamia nuts from Hawaii (oh yes, I was trying to channel the wonderful breakfast from the ride down Haleakala about 9 years ago). Then, I started riffing on how we were eating from coast to coast.
Which is fun.
Then, I thought about the 100 mile diet and how we were going to try to eat more locally.
What a conundrum!!! We have the technology and transportation to bring us treats and delights from around the world but we are also concerned (rightfully) with the conservation of our resources and trying to bring things back to a more fuel and resource efficient manner.
It might be too much to ponder on a lazy, cold, cloudy Sunday but it is something to ponder, indeed.
Image: ‘CRW_4131‘
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Way back in 1988, I went to England and Ireland. The entire trip was memorable but two of the sites I visited stood out above the rest:
I had the exact same feeling when I was in both places…these were special sites that needed to be kept special. Even though the fence kept us from getting really close to the stones, I still had that feeling just on the Salisbury plain.
I have always been fascinated by Stonehenge, even before that trip and became even more so afterward. I bought a complex paper model of the stone structure and laboriously cut it out with a Xacto knife and put it together. Folks who know me are surely shaking their head in disbelief that I would have spend that kind of time on precision…but I did. That model, being paper, didn’t last terribly long, but I my interest in the prehistory stones has always stayed.
So, I saw that they are doing some new excavation and exploration at the site, thanks to the BBC. I am looking forward to learning about what they will find. Isn’t it great that with today’s blogs, web video and other communcations, we can all follow along rather than wait for the years to go by for the study, analysis and reports/articles to be completed and published.
BBC – History – Stonehenge Dig 2008
Image: ‘Silent Circle II‘
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We’ll see if the scribefire plugin will work better now!!!
