This week went by so fast… I never got a chance to do anything at home.  Today, I downloaded the new update to WordPress, and a new presentation theme that I believe will be more appropriate for visitors now that the trip is completed.  So if...
Topics: Blogging, completed, downloaded, fiddling, funny, layout, presentation, theme, wordpress

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I certainly did not take a complete break from the internet while I was in Australia. For one thing, I wrote over 50 entries in this blog. I used Skype to call home on days where I had purchased in-room internet access, I checked my personal email, I...
Topics: complete, email, entries, mail, pull, successfully, Thinking Aloud, tickets, wrote

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My new toy arrived yesterday. I bought an Amazon gift card from with all the loose change I’d collected in the fourth quarter of 2007, and used some of it to order Adobe Photoshop Elements on Sunday. For a few years, I was using a Corel package...
Topics: amazon, Photography, test, widgets

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I’ve been thinking about the issues surrounding the monopoly at Ayers Rock Resort, and how I’d do Uluru (photos) differently next time. Because the person I called at Ayers Rock Resort was great about changing my stay without penalty with...
Topics: ayers, issues, Logistics, Now that I know, rock, Sightseeing, surrounding, thinking, Uluru

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I’ll start recapping with the negatives, as while they were few and generally more of annoyance than anything, they come to mind quickly:Australian Diet Coke tastes lousy.  Fortunately, I do not mind Coke Zero.I never got to try a chiko roll;...
Topics: affinity, brutal, flies, mind, negatives, Now that I know, quickly, start, Thinking Aloud

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