Arteliance

This theme started by placing my camera on my desk and just randomly turning it and snapping pictures without looking at the display. The first one was of the white chair and then I took a few more trying to replicate that (but actually looked at what I was photographing). I think I will explore this some more with a number of black and white items that decorate the house.

This is also a test of embedding a Picasa album in my blog.

A week ago I wrote “Google has a more up-to-date image of where I live now but taken from straight overhead all the coulees appear flattened out.” And now they’ve come out with a terrain view for their maps. (maybe I should’ve asked sooner?) It’s not very detailed yet but still pretty interesting.

via Google Maps: Google Maps Adds Terrains

Google has a more up-to-date image of where I live now but taken from straight overhead all the coulees appear flattened out. I enhanced the colour to make it look a bit more lively.

I tried Google Docs way back when it was still Writely but had to abandon it when added features made it inaccessible on my old computer. This fall, after enrolling in a first year university French course, I decided to give Google Docs another try. The workflow turned out to be surprisingly simple and effective:

• Online storage gave me access to the documents at the college or at home
• Export as Word allowed me to email it to the professor in the format he preferred
  
• Google Docs can spell check in French without the rest of the page (or my whole computer) having to be in French
• Stored revisions make it easy to go back to previous versions of the document if I change my mind

By using tabs in Firefox I can easily flip back and forth between Google Docs, BonPatron and, if I’m really stuck, Google Translate to do my French writing assignments.

Google Blog: Fill in the blanks

An alternative is to get the search engine to ‘fill in the blank.’ So instead of asking [who invented the parachute?], you can enter the query [the parachute was invented by *]. (The blank, or wildcard, search is marked by * - an asterisk.)