Framed

I have used the image generator to frame an image of Zoe and her friend. Sadly I have to report the demise of the friend since this photo was take. She burst a seam and was promptly put in the wheelie bin along with the thousands of little white balls that had spilt out everywhere!

Searching , searching everywhere

I searched the sites mentioned in Thing 10 for "dalmatian coast". Results were quite varied. A couple we academic in nature and while they would have been great if I was interested in "Analysis of the 5' region of the canine PAX3 gene and exclusion as a candidate for Dalmatian deafness 1", it wasn't quite what I had in mind for my holiday plans. Might be good if I was being a little more highbrow with my 23 things exploration! Some sites like Google produced the mandatory hundreds of thousand results, which are really no good to anyone. Dogpile gave me 56 results. I'm not sure about this site and others like it. They always return about the same number of results. This is good if we are looking for the best sites, but if we are looking for something a little more obscure I'd be concerned about what I was missing out on. There is a very bid difference between 56 and >800,000. Kartoo was fun, but I think I would have to spend a bit of time trying to work it out properly, time I do n ot have a great deal of at the moment. Del.ic.ious produced some excellant sites which I will go back to and add the best of to my Europe08 wiki, when I 'get time'.

Giving it a go

I've introduced the travel Wiki to Ray. He likes the idea, but I get a really strong feeling that I will be the one editing it. I think his contributions will be sending me links to add. A case of him feeling that he doesn't have the time to get to know how to do this. I think that we can all relate to this! I did try to give him a quick demo to show him how it works, but I could see that he was reluctant. Maybe over the coming weeks, especially if his work eases up (which would certainly be a novelty for him). Anyway, I have added a few links to information about our early plans, in particular a sailing trip around the Dalmatian Islands (Croatia). Looks pretty blissful!

wikis as a planner

Well I've finally got around to the Wk 9 activity of creating a Wiki. Looking at the information about Wikis and how they can be used I thought I would have a go at creating a wiki to help Ray and me organise a trip to Europe next year. I can see it's potential to keep our thoughts, ideas, plans and confirmed details all in one place. It will be interesting to see how it pans out! I haven't got Ray's response to this idea as yet. If he is recalcitrant it will make it a bit difficult.

My wiki called Europe08 is here