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Last night, the first official beta of Flock (version 0.7) became available for download from their web site.  Because I have been referring to Flock here at my blog since late last year, most of you regular readers have at least some inkling that it is a web browser that is based on Firefox.  This morning I'd like to recommend that you get some first hand experience with it.  And even though this is a beta release, my own experience with it since last October indicates that it is certainly stable enough now to take for a spin so you can discover some of the conveniences it offers.

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There are lots of ways to get your news, more now than ever before.  One of those ways is RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, that I've written about before. 

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Have you ever experienced the panicked feeling that comes from dreaming that you were naked and exposed in some public place like the town square? I have, and I have heard from others who say they have too. I'm sure many a psychiatrist has been able to pay for a yacht or put braces on his children's teeth by interpreting such dreams, usually by making such clever observations as «You feel exposed.» Well, the field of psychiatry may soon experience a rennaisance, because a lot more of us are destined to «feel exposed» due to what I choose to think of as the dark side of connectivity.

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My friend, from almost 30 years ago, Jerry Pounds, has begun a new blog. He is going through some soul-searching in his initial entries, and that's not a bad thing. If you have some time you might check out what he has to say. Your comments might help steer him in the right direction as he blogs.

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After three days of near continuous effort, I've uploaded 198 pictures of the Alaska trip to my Flickr site, beginning with this one. If you'll click on the next picture (for instance the one of Carole that is over at the right) that will reveal the next photo and its associated narrative. You can proceed like that throughout the series.

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I've spent most of today uploading some of the photos to my Flickr site from my Alaska cruise. At this point, I have uploaded 78 photos of the first 307 I've reviewed, out of a total of 954 pictures that I took. I've reached the point of satiation, so I'll return to this activity tomorrow and see if I can't complete uploading the pictures. Once that is done, I'll come back to the task and write about the experience. But for now, I'm pooped. More later.

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I'll be spending a good deal of today going through the 963 pictures I took during my Alaskan cruise vacation to see which of them deserve to be uploaded to my Flickr site. Adjustments (to lighting, cropping, etc.) are needed before I can begin to decide about what to include and what to exclude. I will have to say though that I was pleased that as many of them turned out well as they did. Certainly the scenery there is worthy of photographing and whether or not my pictures do it justice, starting with a great subject sure helps.

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