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2007
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Most Active Rain members probably are not Photoshop junkies. They simply want to use the "digital darkroom" to improve images they have taken of available properties.I'm using Photoshop 7 in this tour, since 1. I am rather fond of it, and 2. Marcel Peterson asked about Photoshop 7 tutorials.Her...
08/17/2007
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Yep, August 15th is the 38th Anniversary of Woodstock. For any youngsters who may not have heard of it, The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was a historic event (3 days of peace and music and love) held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to Au...
08/14/2007
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With all the current news about the stock market, financial markets, the housing market ... I found myself thinking about this short little SNL skit. I first saw it a while ago, and lost track of it .... so I searched about until I found it again. If you haven't seen it before, it will make you s...
08/13/2007
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The first chapter in understanding TrackBacks is here.The second chapter goes like this:When folks send a TrackBack to your blog, nothing happens until you approve the TrackBack.Log in to your TypePad blog. Click the Weblogs tab. You'll see a list of your blogs like this: Notice the item titl...
08/11/2007
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(I put this together for one of our staff members)Here's how to upload images to Picasa from your Kodak V705:With the camera turned OFF, hook up the cable.Turn on the camera. Windows will recognize that a new device is plugged in. A dialogue box will open and ask you to Select the program to l...
08/10/2007
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I've mentioned before how much I love the old Eagle Rock Branch library. I mentioned the pictures in my mind of the way books were arranged on the low shelves in the children's section, the light streaming in through the high windows. The library was closed in 1971 due to earthquake damage, how...
08/10/2007
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It took me the longest time to figure out TrackBacks. In case you also look a little blank when someone mentions "TrackBacks" ... here is a little illustrated tour.My two demonstration blogs, "Cluttered Shelf" and "Frayed Cuffs" will assist.Suppose "Frayed Cuffs" wrote a great, incredibly bril...
08/07/2007
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Bob Carney tagged me for a meme. "Meme" rhymes with "dream" (sort of), or at least, that is what I think I remember reading in someone's blog somewhere.Here goes:My just completed book meme probably tells you almost everything you might ever want to know about me. Back in the late 1960s, ea...
08/05/2007
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Hooray! I finally found myself! No, not the culmination of an existential search, but I finally found a image of me in a photo posted by another attendee at Blogger Connect.OK, so it's just the back of my head, but here you go:http://mariah.com/blogfiesta/2007/08/02/50-pictures-from-inman-blogg...
08/04/2007
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Oh Dear. Not another meme. But this one is a little different. My Five Favorite All Time Books? Like my meme-or, Teri Lussier there is just simply no way to narrow my list to just five.But I can do the stream-of-consciousness, random snippets-of-memory thing for several books/authors that hav...
08/03/2007
