Now this is what we have been waiting for…big organizations partnering with Flickr. This is a great idea IMHO.

it is so exciting to let people know about the launch of a brand-new pilot project the Library of Congress is undertaking with Flickr, the enormously popular photo-sharing site that has been a Web 2.0 innovator. If all goes according to plan, the project will help address at least two major challenges: how to ensure better and better access to our collections, and how to ensure that we have the best possible information about those collections for the benefit of researchers and posterity.

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[singlepic=114,320,240,,left]The DeSoto Central High School Band participated in a national marching competition this weekend in New Orleans, LA and won FIRST PLACE! They will be performing their show during the halftime of the LSU vs Ohio State game which will be on FOX tonight at 7:30.
http://www.fox.com/schedule/ Watch for Holden, he plays the snare drum. If you helped us with fund raisers this summer, THANKS and this is what all the hard work was for.

The Percussion section also won FIRST PLACE!

Below are some pictures from the competition this weekend in New Orleans. They will arrive home later Tuesday evening.
That is Holden on the left

Holden is second from the left

Pictures from Day One

Pictures from Day Two

My favorite online photo editor and my favorite online photo sharing tools are finally one! This will be a big time saver

A co-worker put me onto a nice site that is good for designers everywhere. He gives links to download tools he has found or created himself. The only problem I have is the servers he puts his downloads on are blocked by my corp firewall. I guess I will have to grab them at home. Here he has a free Photoshop brush set for creating amazing shining, blinking & glow effects. Also it’s useful for designing Milky Way, glows, flashes… whatever you want. Check it out at Dezignus.com

Lizzy and her friends did this while we were at dinner.

Phoebe looks sad. She got her first haircut but at least we can see her eyes now. The groomer shaved her way to close and Holden is trying to hide her body in this picture.

The beach was packed that day. I photoshopped out all the people. Can you tell where they were?

Keep rubbin…that is gonna take a while.

Both of these little girls have big attitudes, can’t you tell? Cute though, aren’t they?

And here is the office workspace, view it on Flickr.com cause it’s nicely annotated as well.

Following the lead of Mark Drew, one of my favorite bloggers, here is a snapshot of my home workspace and yes it is annotated and everything. What does your space look like?

We decorated our Christmas tree this year (for the first time) the week after Thanksgiving. Pictured to the left is the first time. There were a few lights out (more than usual) while Holden and I were putting them on. I decided we would go ahead with it and replace the burned out bulbs later (stupid idea). A couple days later a couple more sections went out, the next day a couple more. Within a week, this is the pile of lights that had gone out. After searching all over our town and the next town for plain ole clear white lights, I finally found some. I purchased nine boxes thinking that would be more than enough. Three quarter of the way up the tree Holden is putting on the last box and guess what? When he plugged them in half of the string wont come on. Oh but wait, we have two whole strings of lights that still work from the original decorating only a week ago, lets use them. Well now only one of those string work. ARGH! Did I mention that we had to remove everything from the tree and start over to put on the new lights? Man, I tired of working on that tree. Hopefully now it will stay on until Christmas. (note to self, buy lights for next year while they are on sale after Christmas)

Here is an easy Christmas Tree Ornament craft for your Sunday School kids to make.

Large Folded Star Christmas Tree Ornament Color

 
Large Folded Star Christmas Tree Ornament