Five Acres with a View

One of my few regrets about our trip to Australia in 1999 is that we only had one day in Sydney.  Here, at least, is an Aerial Virtual tour of Sydney, Australia, though figuring out the navigation is a bit tricky.

If you are bored with you computer desktop wall-paper, choose one of these from Japanese Art on Flickr.

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I only spend five minutes making random clicks before using Google. (flowchart is courtesy of xkcd.)

Is It Going To Rain Tomorrow? Simple answers for simple questions. 

There are a lot of neat palette utilities available on the web.  ColorJack is one of the neatest I’ve seen recently.

Morning MDT is a good time to visit the Amberg, Germany webcam.

I’ve started using a plug-in which will allow commenters to subscribe to comments for any particular blog post, because I like that feature on other WordPress web logs.  You should see a check-box underneath the text field for the comment.

Since we live in a rural neighborhood, our choice of options to connect to the Internet are rather limited.  For the past  four or five years, we have used wireless broadband to connect to a tower that is line of sight to the east of us.  It is a system that works quite well, except when it doesn’t.  At 6:30 am this morning, it stopped working.  Unfortunately, one of the peculiarities of the small company that provides our service is that one can only contact them via a web form.  Usually, I call Jack and ask him to submit the trouble report from work, but this doesn’t work on a weekend. 

On the bright side, I had to leave the house anyway and decided to see how the wireless access at the Monument Library works with my laptop.  It works quite well, fortunately.  All that is required is a library card and a PIN.

The Library of Congress Blog announces that the Library of Congress is putting some of its vast collection of audio-visual materials on You Tube, including a short clip of boxing cats from an archive of Edison clips.

Use the the Alphabetizer to sort a list without starting a spreadsheet or word processing program.