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Places to Feed Your Soul-- Bass Harbor Light, Acadia National Park, ME I have a fascination with lighthouses, and with capturing their essence on film. This picture was taken in the fall of 2001 on a long car trip through Maine. The Bass Harbor Light is at the southern tip of Acadia National Park, on Mount Desert Island. The grounds are open to visitors, but the lighthouse itself is usually closed. It was originally built in 1858 and automated in 1974. To get to this place, one has to walk along a deceptively steep trail down the side of the island to the water. I rounded a turn and the Atlantic Ocean lay ahead and the lighthouse to my right. The view was extraordinary.   Quote of the Day (from QuoteDB.com) Sorry, QOTD isn't doing so well these days with lag, so I took it offline for the short term.   Word of the Day (from Dictionary.com) degage: unconstrained; easy, as in manner or style.   Random Wikipedia Link (this is so cool....and educational too!)

WIKI

I've installed a wiki for a family scrapbook project. Before, it was for geek curiosity. Now, I have a purpose for it...let's see what happens.

What is a wiki? Read it from the experts. MediaWiki one of the most popular wiki engines, powering the ubiquitous Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Wikis excel at providing a collaborative environment where non-technical people can co-author and co-edit many webpages at once. In addition to encyclopedias, there are literally hundreds of uses for this kind of collaborative effort. Students working on a paper, for instance, can co-edit various parts of the process -- research, page notes, outline, bibliography, etc. -- together, without special knowledge of HTML or scripting.

Wikis have their own simple script language for creating these pages. It's pretty interesting stuff. You can teach practically anyone to wiki in minutes, no formal training needed.

INTERESTING STUFF:

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