12.14.2005

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Don says

How about this:

Did you try to click in the text box?   Gotcha!   It's an image or, more accurately, a cropped screenshot.   I took the screenshot at this site:   http://www.logogle.com/
The site, which is mentioned in the current issue of our ezine, is fun to play with.

Incidentally, the latest version of Irfanview has a plugin called PNGOUT, that was created by Ken Silverman that's just a super little tool.   My screenshot images are now far sharper and quite a bit smaller thanks to this nifty little plugin.  Thank you, thank you, thank you Ken Silverman.

Lisa says

Things have been a bit slow for us the past two weeks, thank goodness.  We both had wicked colds and are finally over them.  This gave Don, ever the geek, time to investigate internet radio, recording from it, editing (with Audacity) and burning CDs.
Haven't had much opportunity to take pictures so this will be a chance to put up two of my favorites from the spring.  We live in a rural area and are surrounded by nature.

This is one of the local pastures transformed by wildflowers.

The biggest and most beautiful crape myrtle I've ever seen.
That's Don standing there to demonstrate its size.

Did you see the new buttons on our home page?

            

Don and I support the notion of free speech online, even though we're determined to keep our own site family friendly. Digital media and those who produce it should enjoy the same freedoms and protection afforded other media.   Project Gutenburg is my newest interest.  In their words; "Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet.  Our collection was produced by hundreds of volunteers."   Simply put, with their "plain vanilla" text format that can be read by anyone with the simplest of text editors, "Everyone in the world, or even not in this world (given satellite transmission) can have a copy of a book that has been entered into a computer."  To me, the most basic freedom is the freedom to read anything I please.  Knowledge is power.  I've become a member of their affiliated program, "Distributed Proofreaders", where a volunteer can proofread texts that have been submitted, as much or as little as you like.  To me, this is a worthwhile effort because it's also preserving books for the centuries to come in a form that will still be readable no matter what technology comes along in the interim.  Now, to keep up the level of excitement and accomplish the personal goal each day may be a different story.