Mar 10th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | one comment »
Jeanne recently took a trip to northern Ethiopia in the Tigray Region (click for a map, written like this: ትግራይ ክልል and pronounced: Tigrāy Kilil). In Mekele our friends there suggested that the girls should also have traditional dresses to reflect the style worn in that region.
Our girls thought this was a great idea of course. Jacob on the other hand thought his purple geode was a much better present – he loves it in the way only a young boy can love a rock. The girls, even little Claire, love their dresses in a way that just goes beyond what a fellow like me could explain. Some things are just fundamental I suppose.
Mar 1st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | one comment »
I used Microsoft’s Live Writer to post once or twice on previous blogs. While it worked very well overall, I saw a few issues and didn’t really need its help.
It will be a bigger help here in Ethiopia where bandwidth is so limited. No need to be online to write a post, and because it looks just like the real thing, I can catch a few other types of mistakes before posting.
Live Writer was recently updated and I have been anxious to try it out. Here are 3 photos of my lovely assistant Claire (enjoying sugar cane) to help me test it.
Among the features I rememered in Live Writer are the built-in image tools. Effects like drops shadows etc, that were just more convenient to create right in a blogging application.
OK, I know they won’t look so great right next to each other here in my test, but this will speed up posting and might make posts prettier too, even when I dont have such and attractive model.
