IAOBA Riverside Alpacafest
I’m here in Peoria, IL tonight for the IAOBA Riverside Alpacafest. Selene is checked in and ready to go tomorrow. It will be an early day tomorrow. She is a True Black, so her color class goes pretty early in the morning.
In case anyone was wondering, Extended Stay America offers $3.99 Wi-Fi access in your room, single charge for the length of your stay. I am staying two nights. Wireless access in my room for 4 bucks? Sign me up!
The last Alpaca show we went to was in Madison, WI. The hotel we stayed at had an indoor pool, which …
Google Maps Again
Something new that was added to Google Maps that is pretty slick - satellite images. If you’ve used the Google Maps and have not seen this, it is a choice on the upper right side of the maps. You can choose either “maps” or “satellite”. Some areas (like Chicago) you can zoom in all the way and get a pretty good view.
Try mapping to your home address, then select “satellite”. It’s pretty cool.
Or, try Googling for your phone number, then select “Google Maps”, then “satellite”.
Wikipedia
A pretty interesting tool for the web researcher is the Wikipedia. Set up as a comprehensive (and then some) encyclopedia in wiki format, you can find information on just about any topic, encyclopedic or otherwise. However, since it is a wiki, accuracy is not guaranteed. (If you’ve never heard of a wiki, that’s ok, not a lot of people have. A wiki is a web document (or series of documents) that are editable by the users at large.)
Also as part of the Wikipedia project, there are some other useful tools, including Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikinews. However, because of its open …
MRFF 2005
With MRFF 2005 (Midwest Regional Fun Fly) fast approaching (Father’s Day Weekend), I think back to last year’s launch. Last year brought out the whole family: wife, kids, grandparents. This year will be much different as I will be without the family. Advantage: I can do both days for the weekend without the kids complaining that they’re bored or tired. Disadvantage: I plan to do my Level 1 Certification and no one will be there to see it.
Last year, we flew “Barbie’s Dream Rocket”. Here is an excerpt of some of what I posted over at The Rocketry Forum …
WordPress Themes
The abundance of site themes is another reason for the continued popularity of WordPress. If you are design impaired, there are freely downloadable themes available that you can easily manage through the WordPress admin. (In English, for the not so technically inclined: You can change the entire look and feel of your blog with a single click.)
Good places full of free themes:
Alex King’s Site - This is the mother of all theme sites. Alex runs a contest for themes and posts them on his site. He also has equipped it with the theme switcher plugin (see plugins) so …
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