Canadian ski team member Erin Mielzynski triumphs on the FIS World Cup alpine circuit. Erin (can I call you Erin?) is the first Canadian to win slalom since 1971. Your smile at the finish says it all. Great job, great technical skiing – yea tech! You’re making us old ski hounds proud. Who says the speed events should get all the glory and headlines… You go Girl!
Image Optimization – Free VirtualStudio
It seems that every six months or so, digital cameras and phone cameras hit the market with more and more megapixel capability. These days, 10 megapixels is a pretty standard sensor rating even in small point-and-shoot cameras. Smart phone cameras are already entering the 5 to 8 megapixel range. All these megapixels produce excellent digital pictures. They also produce digital files the size of buses.
Use Free Picasa to Prep Web Pics
There are two essential preparatory steps necessary to get a picture fit for web display before you upload the picture to your blog or other web display space. The process is called image optimization. (search “image optimization” for lots of how-to info and tools) Continue reading
Posterous Blogging Site…interesting possibilities
A blog site that has recently appeared offers some interesting options in terms of publishing photos and other media…
ScribeFire, an In-browser Blog Editor
If you use Firefox or SeaMonkey as a web browser you may be interested in the ScribeFire browser add-on. It’s a pretty good basic editor for making up quick posts to your blog. Once installed in the browser, you call ScribeFire from the browser’s “Tools” menu.
An External Editor – More Flexibility than the WordPress Internal Editor Provides
Working with the WordPress internal editor gets old rather quickly. The small working window and the fact that WordPress will “correct” or otherwise change code that you manually enter into the html view gets annoying.
The Big Skies of Alberta
One of my favourite places to spend time just hanging out and looking at the view. A view that really can’t been done justice in a photograph. Stormy day in the mountains… No problem, head over Highwood Pass… …view a picture