This just in: Academic Blog Portal is well worth checking out.


I found the listing of blog sites under the History tab to be very valuable. There will be some of those blogs that I will start to follow:

http://wiki.henryfarrell.net/wiki/index.php/History

Quite a few months ago I created a Facebook account -- and then my family found me. Drat! I thought that I was safe.

So today I took another leap and created a Twitter account. I have little intention of telling my few followers how I feel. Someone recently used Grumpy as a good word to describe me.

Is this how to find me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/a7miller?

Will adding rula20 allow others to find this blog?

Okay, the petting zoo was fun -- and I found a Christmas present idea for the man who has everything, that would be my dad.

So this week I'm getting back to those Google applications I've dealt with from time to time. I love the idea about Google Docs and will play around with loading a piece and see if the team leader can find it. So often the screens have all those gadgets and I so easily miss the right one -- like the Share tab. Why, tell me why, does Google not like a7miller@ryerson.ca?

Google Maps has been very helpful for ages. I love grabbing the map and moving it around, just like adults do with paper maps. And is up always North?

Well, this should be fun, this Library Thing.

Here are a few starting titles and I'll have to add tags later:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/a7miller

A7's Social Bookmarks
http://delicious.com/a_seven

Things are moving along a fair clip and now we're onto Flickr. This will take a bit more work than expected but something I wanted to investigate years ago. A few photos have been loaded already and some need to be rescanned. Yes, rescanned since they are from the old days, i.e., pre-digital camera years.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/a7miller/

New Mexico boasts two early art communities centred around Santa Fe and Taos. It's hard to say which members are more interesting, but since I have a background in biology/ecology, I'd have to admit to finding landscapes more to my liking.

One can find lots of names to delve into at this wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taos_art_colony

Three favourites are W. Herbert Dunton, Oscar E. Berninghaus and Ernest L. Blumenschein. A new biography of Blumenschein was just published which includes some of my favourite paintings. See this Denver Art Museum page for more information on the biography.