Just What is an Alpaca?
I guess if I’m going to have a category dedicated to our furry friends, then I should probably begin with a post that tells the uninitiated just what an alpaca is. The alpaca is a South American relative of the camel, a member of the family camelidae. Another South American camelid more familar to many is the llama. In fact, the alpaca looks like a small lama.
These creatures were raised by the Incans for their prized fleece. In the 17th century, the Spanish Conquistadors slaughtered the majority of these peaceful animals. Their intent was that by removing the livelyhood …
Project Gutenberg
If you are a reader and you haven’t seen Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/), you aren’t really a reader. What is Project Gutenberg, you ask? Their description says it all:
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You will never read through the mountain of texts in your lifetime …
Google Maps
Have you seen the new Google Maps? Check them out at http://maps.google.com/.
This is probably the best online map that I have used. Certainly better (IMO) than Yahoo’s or MapQuest’s. The biggest reason? It doesn’t reload the page everytime you scale/zoom or move side to side. It will continue to load new images into the map, but not the entire page. This is nice should you decide you need to hit the “back” button to return to the previous page or site. Now you won’t have to go through endless resizes, etc. of the same map.
Of course, as with …
New Blog
Well, I’ve had a couple of other blogs that died for one reason or another, so we will be careful not to let this one suffer the same fate. The main reason I started this blog (similar to the others) is to test out the new version of WordPress. So far, I like it. The admin is a little cleaner and smoother.
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