This post is about using a lot of Google stuff. There are a lot of folks that are calling applications like Picasa and Chrome Cloud applications. I am using Chrome for the first time to write in my Blog. I also used Picasa on my computer to organize my images and upload them to web albums. I can embed Flash slide shows in my posts with out doing any programming. Check out the images from my trip to the Cadillac Ranch.
I am planning on upgrading my free Google storage account so that I can load all of my 21GB of images on Google servers. Thsi will be a backup and a way to publish my images when I want to on my Blog or other web sites.
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Go to Sylvia’s Blog. In the search box enter garden and see what happens.
I created a custom Google.com search engine. It searches across all of the domains that we have and puts the results on a page with other related banners. The more content that we add to the pages the more words will be valid in the search.
The custom search can be revised or I can create others. Here is a list of the web sites.
http://austingardencoaching.com
http://sylvia.wormley.org/blog
I spent the July 4th weekend setting up Google Analytics and Google Adsense on the web sites listed above.
I was working on my wife’s blog and decided to update the look and feel of my own. I selected a theme that was originally designed by Benedikt Rieke-Benninghaus. The theme name: Dynamic-Vision 10. The theme URI: http://benediktrb.de. It is cool that Sylvia is getting into blogging and we have a similar theme on our sites.
Here is my original theme during 2005-2006: I took the banner with my camera. I got a cup of cold day old coffee and dumped some screws in it and started shooting pictures with my Canon 10D.
Here is my next theme during 2006-2007: I got the name for this blog from a friend that I worked with when I was in the Unification Church. His name was Walter Frank and if I remember correctly he would joke about screws in his coffee. I started writing a book of poems and titled it Screws in my Coffee.
Here is my current theme for summer 2008: 
So now I have revised my blog theme to a lighter bigger font. I am not sure why I picked the black background of the previous theme. I usually do not like black web pages. Anyway this layout looks really cool to me. I spent most of the day working on Sylvia’s blog and then decided to use the theme on my blog.
I have owned launi.com since June 1998. It was a labor of love and the first domain that I owned, I even started a online store and gallery!. I started my Internet learning experience using Linux and hosted a web site from my home in Portland Oregon when I first got DSL. Well I am in the final stages of selling the domain to Enrique Launi in Canada. I will sue the money to pay off credit card bills.
I am not sure if I wll change the way I sign my artwork on future projects. I have been using the name launi for all of my signatures on my art for over 40 years. I am also considering if I will set up a web site like launi.wormley.org.
So part of me is sad to give up launi.com because it was my first domain, but part of me is glad to let go so that I can move on.