Gimp

The past few days, I have been trying to learn more about “the Gimp.”:http://www.gimp.org/ I’ve used it since I installed Linux Red Hat 9 last September, but hadn’t done much more than cropped and resized photos, and adjust the colors a bit. I’ve found a lot of tutorials of varying quality on the web, but so far have been most pleased with Grokking the GIMP – Learning Advanced Image Editing Techniques.

Official US Time

NIST maintains a site that gives the official U.S. time using a Java application. It looks as there are some other interesting exhibits on this site as well. For some reason I haven’t investigated yet, my computer is not synching correctly to a network time server, so I decided to find an online clock.

Morning fog

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Some winter mornings it is clear here, and still foggy in the valley below and to the east of us. The bright square is our neighbor’s window.