Month: January 2010

In Bloom in Livermore, first 4

Friends: Although there have been tazettas blooming here since November, now the first few non-tazettas are begining to bloom. In the photo you’ll see quite a size range, from Renovator down to Wee Bee, Gambas, and Medway Gold. The last…

more info on USPS stamp

Daffnetters have responded with additional info of interest and I hope this is not duplicate info that has already been posted to Daffnet.  I receive Daffnet postings in digest format, and it is therefore somewhat delayed.   Ralph Sowell in…

snow in TN

Since it’s a slow time, here’s a photo of our backyard pileated woodpecker during the snow. This was captured from a video taken yesterday I posted on my Facebook page. For those of you on Facebook (or not yet), there…

Google blog about modern browsers

I came across this news about Google phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 in March. http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/modern-browsers-for-modern- applications.html From our own web servers logs, we have seen IE6 decline from 60% Jan 2008, 50% Jan 2009, to 37% Jan 2010.…

USPS postage stamp

Friends, of interest is that the USPO has a new first class postage stamp with a tazetta on it.  This stamp is associated with the Lunar New Year.  I think it is really attractive.  There are 12 same images on…