Phototelegrapher 202

New domain name. New format. More flexibility. Larger images. Simplicity. The combination of a lot of ideas. A fresh beginning.

The change better fits my style of photography and writing, and it is independent of any blogging system. Hopefully, you will find this more enjoyable. For me, it means designing each portion however I wish and no longer being constrained by a fixed program. So, expect some originality and departure from the way blogs are usually constructed.

The featured photogaph, above, will be replaced weekly, or more often as I catch up. Posts will be added anytime in between and need not be in chronological sequence. The arrow buttons navigate through archives. All white words are hyperlinks that you are invited to click.

My former blog will soon fade away, so please look now if you have missed recent posts. A home page that was neglected for the past year is now reactivated and stores my permanent collection. This new blog is now the "front door" with links to everything.

We all send our renewed greetings.

Bill and Stella - Judd and Kristin
Polly, Heidi, Calvin, and Kona

A woman at our Sunday-evening small group
explained this lengthy card from a pen pal.

Zipit

Over the past year, I have become a growing fan of instant messaging. Although I aquired an AIM account when they first came out, the real encouragement surfaced while working with SIP phones, because we all needed a communication mode that could be left on continuously for coordinating our activities, particularly when an experiment suddenly failed. I now have AIM and YahooIM, and each of us in the group got Trillian Basic to make IM thorougly enjoyable.

My "phone booth" is in a large closet at one end of the second floor, and I am not always right there to see an instant message appear. How might I monitor IM while elsewhere around the house? Ah, here is the delightful answer.

The Zipit^tm Wireless Messenger is 4x4x1 inches and weighs only 6 ounces. Battery powered and no cables at all, this is a tiny Wi-Fi device that works with a wireless router, and there are no dead spots inside our home. I even took it to the PMUG meeting and kept in touch through their wireless base station. This Zipit is going to get a lot of use, and I am grateful that such a lovely little gadget exists.