Here in balmy New England, I sit around thirty miles from Foxborough Stadium. I know there is a brand name attached to it, but we, being New Englanders, will always call it by its real name.
This goes for the Gimmell house where we are visiting.

The Gimmells haven't lived here since the 1950's but when we tell people here-abouts where we are staying, "Oh, the Gimmell house." is aways the response.

On a dry Sunday, with no game in the forecast, it would take me less than 20 minutes to drive up Rte. 1 past the Stadium. Today, if I left right now, I might make it there by breakfast tomorrow. It the last Instant Snowstorm of a few days ago, I left Worcester at 1 in the afternoon and saw my front door around dinner time. My knuckles are still white from that driving. I don't intend to make them whiter today.

Our greatest fear at the moment is ice on the cable and power wires. News reports have a large portion of Pennsylvania without power. It would also shut down the heat, but we have fireplaces for back up. Power failure would mean we would have to rely on out Blackberries for the score. Or, there is that thing called a radio... I think we have one in the basement. Where are those batteries?

As far as the weather, three hours before the game, the foot or so of snow on our balcony is now being nicely coated with sleet. We understand there may even be a touch of freezing rain to add to the layering effect. Then, as it gets dark, more snow.

What fun!!!
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Though we're still getting error messages after uploading a message on Vox, the end result is the message still gets uploaded when using Zoundry. We were hoping the new w::bloggar would support Vox but were disappointed to find it didn't.

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Okay, here's the thing: There is an online editor that will send the stuff you write on it to a blog, or save it as a text file. What I don't understand is why should you add this layer to creating a text file when this can be done using notepad on any computer?

Why would you go to this site to load what you have written into a blog when you can just as easily go to the blog site itself and load it, with all of the onsite bells and whistles?

The way it works is neat. The why you would use it baffles me. It does remind me of the older monotone monitors. It gives you the choice of colors. Amber and Green are the colors that bring back the old days.
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If you watch CSI, you will notice it is Nikon digital cameras that they use. All of the photographs you see displayed on this blog that were created by us in the last two years have been taken with the Nikon D50. The D80 is our wish list camera.

It was on a trip to Alaska that inspired us to get something more than a point and shoot camera. We took a point and shoot on the trip to Morocco and kept leaving it places. It was only through sheer luck and a fellow traveler who lived within driving distance of my brother that got that camera back to us.

I started with a Konika and a Leica SLR back in the late Sixties but once Nikon came into the picture it has been a fight between their SLR and the Elf point and shoot. For quality, it certainly is the Nikon, hands down.

These are not the opinion of a professional photographer, but of someone who took over a thousand photos in ten days along the coast of Alaska and up into the Yukon. Even with the 4Gig memory card, I still downloaded onto my laptop's auxiliary drive.

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Nikon D80 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera Kit with 18-55mm ED AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor Lens

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A question was asked of us via IM as to how we found Zoundry. The question was asked by someone who has been searching up and down with Google to find an offline editor for Vox. Not alone.

If you read further down, you'll see my futile attempts to get LiveWriter to work with this blog.

Didn't happen yet.

Back to the question.

In a rather round about way is the short version.

The long version is with the installation of Google Reader, linking Mashable.com along with 43Folders, LifeHacker etc. My nightly routine has become to go over the links, so nicely displayed in summary form, in Google Reader and look for the items I want to blog about, or save or share to the side bar link on Belltowernews.com.

Always on the lookout for blog editors, I came upon the link to The Ten Best Free Blog editors. Tried the ones I haven't tried yet, and Zoundry won.

I hope that answers the question.

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If you can read this, then Zoundry works as an offsite Blog Editor for Vox!!!

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Anyone have any idea how to get LiveWriter to work with VOX?
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Because of their cry for help, Burma  has been at the top of the  nation’s attention span for an unusually long time.  As I have listened to the reports on Canadian and US radio, it occurred to me how little I know about the country past Kipling, Orwell and The Oxford History of the World Atlas. 

After going through the Wikipedia articles on the country I thought it would be a good idea to get a better idea of the physicality of Mandalay and Rangoon, (Yangon) to follow the Irrawaddy River from Mandalay to Rangoon.  Touching on the spots representing submitted photos, I got the tourist eyed view of the trip down the river.

This was not intended to teach me about the current “Saffron Revolution”. It was to show me more about what the place looks like, who are its neighbors and its general place in the world. 

It was worth the trip.
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When did you last write/receive a handwritten, snail-mail letter? Who was it to/from? 
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To a friend in NYC who is totally computer phobic.  I mentioned in the letter that the envelope was probably handled by at least a dozen or so unclean people before she opened it.  Mean of me I know, but she really needs an email address!!! -30-

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