A little ebook for your kind perusal ...

Last week I put out a little booklet compiled from my Twitter posts: Write to Learn. Write to Lead. 100 Tips for Using Email to Improve Your Work Life and Build Your Career. Here's the download link. Please let me know what you think.
 

So who needs a phone? ...

So what’s new about a text message? Well, this on arrives free to my iPod Touch and announces its arrival. Skype does not do this as yet. So when the other person isn’t available to chat with Skype, also free, I can schedule a call using textPlus, also free. I like free. Requires wifi, so this and a couple bucks will get you a cup of coffee and a call.

Cool use of the iPad ...

This might not be legal in copyright terms, but it’s something. Takes your Facebook and Twitter feeds and makes a magazine from them.

So I just realized where Barb is going paddling ...

Let's just say the video begins with a view of Lake Winona and ends with Hudson Bay showing up at the end.

Remembering Orvieto's cathedral ...

which explains what churches once were: places of unearthly beauty. These shots are good and better than mine. But I guess you have to be there. (Now that’s a good idea!)

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Don't know if I care for this bug ... feature ...

Kindle books want to let you know when you have highlighted what everyone else does. Hmm.

Thinking about Etruscan places ...

Back in the last millenium, in college, a fan of Lawrence’s writing on Etruscans, I had a poster of the Etruscan piper.


From “Cypresses” by D.H. Lawrence:
The smile, the subtle Etruscan smile still lurking
Within the tombs,
Etruscan cypresses.
He laughs longest who laughs last;
Nay, Leonardo only bungled the pure Etruscan smile.

Yikes! Audible on the iPod ...

Paperless and wireless reading device ...

Cheaper and cheaper. Reburbished $110.

Rainbow this evening ...

Google translation is trippy ...

Best I can find out, the writer says that Lance was “chopping wood” all day long on the mountain stage.

Declaration of Independence ...

Better late than never. Here’s a link to the HD version.

My top ten workout tunes ...

What I look for in a workout tune is strong beat, long play, strong internal riffs (guitar, drums), and something funky that forces me to smile no matter what. That’s age related, I’m sure.

Post an item HootSuite ...

If you do much Twittering, Facebooking, et al., check out HootSuite, an online feed server. Then get the iPhone/iPod app for free. Great features including scheduling your posts.

The stand off and the time out ...

Peter and family visited bringing true excitement to Mini’s life in the shape of Bailey.

Seeing Winona in surreal light ...

I find this fantastique version of the photo I posted yesterday both fun and eerie. Used software to create what's called a high dynamic range image, intensifying exposure and so detail.

Saw these little cuties yesterday on the Root River ...

And we got response calls using the iBird app sound files.
Thanks to birds in photos for the thumbnails. Gorgeous bird photo site, btw.

Looking over Winona, Minnesota ...

On our way back from biking on the Root River, we saw these cloud formations.
Here’s a link to the high res version of the pano.

Bekah's leaf quatych ..

Nice shot, Bekah!