Many of us are now using online photo galleries these days instead of mailing huge digital photo files around the net. This is a much more efficient way to distribute photos to those who care without choking their systems. They can download only those photos they want or in some cases, order prints.

FLICKR has established itself as a leader in this field a it combines photo galleries with social networking (the latest web buzzword).

Here is a link to a simple tutorial that explains the what why and how of this fine web application.

http://www.benbishop.me.uk/software/how-to-flickr-into/

All the states that we've travelled.....



The site where you can make your own is...

http://douweosinga.com/projects/visitedstates

We've had the opportunity to do a lot of travelling over the years.

A cool tool I found on the web lets us map out where we've been.

Check it out.... 47 countries visited so far



Lots of places still left to fill in...

You can find the tool at http://douweosinga.com/projects/visitedcountries

Time to put away that heavy telephone book.
This is the best search site we've found for locating people or businesses in Canada. I believe that this is a database of the actual telephone book listings but I'm not certain of this. I am sure, however, that this site makes it much easier to locate phone numbers and addresses - it's usually easier than pulling out the phone book itself.

http://www.canada411.com

Steven Spielberg has established this website to archive old films which
record and reflect Jewish life in Europe and America before, during and
after World War II.

This is a wonderful site that is well worth some time to visit but don't go
there unless you have some time to spend.

The Steven Spelberg Film Archive

http://spielbergfilmarchive.org.il/kv/index.htm

Some provincial governments have put their official maps online, some as JPEG or GIF images, others as PDF files. Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec have broken down their maps into PDF pieces that will fit on a page; Saskatchewan and British Columbia provide them inside web pages. Alberta, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and the Northwest Territories provide simple online maps, rather than reproductions of the real thing. And PEI's unnecessarily complicated map site does not support Macintosh (even though there are 250 times as many Mac users as PEI residents). Finally, on the Yukon Territory's government web site there is a very large (697 KB) JPEG map, but its edges are cut off.

The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia

All about Kevin Bacon and Six Degrees of Bacon and all that Bacon stuff.

http://oracleofbacon.org/

This fellow, Dave Dyer of Andromeda Software, has put together an excellent comparison of many of the photo sites on the web. These sites provide various services including free (and paid) web space storage for photos and photo printing and scanning services. He keeps it current and I find it to be a tremendous resource for working with and sharing digital photos.

http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/photo/albums.html

By the way, my personal favourite online photo sharing "service" is ofoto and my personal favourite free web space providers are Freeservers and Fortunecity.

http://www.flamingomania.com/flam_1st.html

Flamingo Macarena
http://www.ospsitecrafters.com/macarena.html

For the flamingo maniacs like my Sisty.

http://www.nakednews.com/newsite/new.html

For those who want the bare facts.

Many people in the 60's believed that naugahide was made from the skins of little naugas. This site is dedicated to providing information about naugas, their history and their preservation.

According to the site, naugas shed their hides naturally.

http://nauga.com/history.html