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July 16, 2004

A Mob of Changes

Well, an effort to add a tiny mini-site onto my main weblog has (as usual) snowballed into a flurry of alterations after several months of relative quiet.

Sadly, I've dropped TypePad as my hosting provider. I think they're great as a straight weblog host, but it's very difficult to serve pages other than a weblog from them. So I've moved to this new provider, AffordableHost.

As you obviously figured out in order to read this, the text weblog, with its 400+ entries, has been relegated to a subdir while a photolog that features just one image at a time is now at the primary Karlo.Org address. We'll still have the occasional update here but I'm not going to make any attempt at maintaining a regular posting schedule here (not that I did in the past, either.)

July 11, 2004

Uluru (Ayers Rock) at Sunset

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Uluru at Sunset -- the red stone of the monolith (it extends 5-6 km below the surface) basks in the final moments of alpenglow.

Outback Sunset

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Sunset in the Outback, Australia
(D70, 200mm lens with 1.4 TC)

July 8, 2004

Mozilla Firefox

firefoxGiven Internet Explorer's recent spate of gaping security holes, I've been mostly using Mozilla Firefox instead.

I've tried Mozilla, Opera and other browsers during past IE problems. Generally, I end up heading back to IE after the latest new security problem is fixed, but I'm really enjoying Firefox. It's super fast, works on 95% of web sites perfectly, and has a great tabbed browsing system that lets you keep many web pages open all within one window. Plus, many of the features I have to add to IE as a plug-in, like a Google search window and popup blocker, are already built in.

It's free and only 4.7 MB to download. Give it a try.

(I'll be going back to posting photos after this. Sorry for the interruption.)

July 7, 2004

View from Coronet Peak, NZ

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The view from Coronet Peak, looking towards The Remarkables. On New Zealand's South Island

July 6, 2004

Pohotu Geyser

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Pohutu Geyser and its hot pools, Te Whakarewarewa Thermal Valley, Rotorua, NZ
(Handheld, D70 with kit lens at 18mm)