Farewell Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar died 30 July at 89

http://www.slate.com/id/2171368/fr/rss/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar_Bergman

what an impact he had!!

His films were always the talk of London parties
I recall so well when I first saw the films below

I think Monika was the first of his I ever saw - Sweden seemed such a strange country - the wonderful summer and awful winter

Summer with Monika (1953) (Sommaren med Monika

• Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) (Sommarnattens leende)
• The Seventh Seal (1957) (Det sjunde inseglet)
• Wild Strawberries (1957) (Smultronstället)

and I saw Seventh Seal again just recently - what a masterpiece

Google MAC Blogger

This is using the Google Dashboard Widget from my Macbook

How_to_reduce_the_memory_usage_on_Firefox

http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/24939/How_to_reduce_the_memory_usage_on_Firefox#mcf

Thunderbird - Additional folders View

Thunderbird version 2 has improved folders view

Easy to switch to unread folders and favourites ect

Additional Folders View addon

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4222

provides another folder view so you can have your Unread folders and in other view all folders
very nice

Seven Post-Install Tips for Ubuntu 7.04

http://forums.pcworld.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=30757#30757

Excel : convert text to numbers

In downloading bank credit card statements I found I could not SUM the numbers
They actually had a blank or space at end of number "41.70 "
The Paste Special,  Format cells  ways of converting text to numbers would not work
This did it
the Left got rid of the blank
But the Value was needed to force balance to an numeric

=VALUE(LEFT(E2,LEN(E2)-1))

Thunderbird - Allow HTML temp

I love Thunderbird as I need text email for the news lists I access.
Plus when looking at Spam emails text is much better as I do not want to see "their" images.

But sometimes I get email I want to see in html - and as that is a Thunderbird option - it meant going to View turning on the option and then after reading the html email going back to View and turning it off

Allow HTML temp :: Thunderbird Add-ons is wonderful it gives a Show Html button which is a simple click and it is temporary next note reverts back to text or whatever your default View option is.
Note: after install you have to go and customise toolbar and drag Show Html to wherever you want it

Firefox Reminders - Have a look at Toodledo

http://toodledo.com/index.php

Well I installed Reminderfox and like it
but perhaps Toodledo is more sophisticated
talks about sorting out priorities

So one day soon I will check

Firefox Add on Showcase for Tab view

http://showcase.uworks.net/

This gives an image view of your Firefox tabs. Just finding the tab you want with the little icons on tabbar can be tricky  This gives a bigger image   As a Sidebar  Or what I think is cute - open a new browser and launch from View Showcae all windows ( F12 ) BUT first goto the options and untick the defaults re close showcase as you want the image page to stay  


used this for a while but finally decided the Tabs could be inspected just as easily

Firefox Addon ImageZoom

http://imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net/

Brilliant

with mouse wheel

• Hold down the right mouse button and scroll the mouse wheel back and forth to zoom in and out
• Hold down the right mouse button and click the left mouse button to fit the image to the screen
• Hold down the right mouse button and click the middle mouse button to restore the image to its original dimensions

By clicking on an Image in a webpage with the right mouse button, you can show the context menu which will have Image Zooming options.

Australian Sites for Travel

STAYZ

NEEDITNOW

ZUJI

Index to My Blogs

Starting this March 2007 - just to see if a better way for you to navigate

The tomb in Talpiyot, a Jerusalem neighborhood - The film and book alleging tomb of Jesus Christ found - links to more pages I have written - and other folks too..... sadly this film and book are very bad nonsense

Technical - some brilliant free stuff I recently installed.
These are addons to Firefox web browser and Thunderbird the mail reader - if you do not have these I would suggest try them out details at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/

These Addons I am really getting great productivity from

• Table2clipboard - copy/paste data like a dream
• IETab enables a MSIE tab in Firefox
• JSVIEW and Firefox
• ReminderFox - a great reminder and todo list
• Some lesser but useful
  
  • Xpunge Thunderbird extension
• Some thoughts on items I am checking
  
  • HTML editors - some thoughts on WYSIWYG tools
    Photo Scanning and Editing -

Other stuff
What is peak oil? - My son's blog
Zulu: The True Story
Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia and Anna Anderson/ Manahan and Ingrid Bergman and some interesting DNA matters for genealogists
The Da Vinci Code - a book soon to be motion pictu... - (nonsense)
The Tutankhamen Deception by Gerald O'Farrell (nonsense)
David Rohl - books and websites on his NEW Chronology
Videos from Al-Jazeera

Movies
The Devil Wears Prada
The Wrong Man _ a nasty movie

Photo Scanning and Editing -

Have some ramblings on how I handle photo and slide scanning and storage and then putting on web. Tools I have used.
Please visit
Photo Scanning and Editing

Oprah and The Secret

In case you have heard about this from Oprah - these links may help your understanding

Oprah and The Secret

Oprah’s Secret: New? Old? Good? Bad? February 21st, 2007

“THE SECRET” - I Challenge You….

Xpunge Thunderbird extension

http://www.theodoretegos.net/mozilla/tb/releases/xpunge/beta/index.html

Thunderbird like OE etc "keeps" deleted notes until the folder is
compacted - I did have the Option turned on to remind that a compact was
needed.
Plus it would only compact current mail account

XPunge gives me a tool button MultiXpunge which will compact everything
all accounts - and also empty the trash folder

Nothing major but useful

Table2clipboard - copy/paste data like a dream

Table2Clipboard :: Firefox Add-ons

means I can cut and paste table formatted data from Firefox into Excel or notes etc with correct format.
In Ancestry.com I bring up a list of people in a census area I only want 3 or so and not all the columns - Table2clipboard means I can

• Select Ctrl and hold.
• Mouse over all the cells that you want to copy, they will be highlighted.
• Right click on the highlighted cells and select "Copy Table elements"
• Now paste into a note - into a spreadsheet - into an html editor.
• I use Frontpage - you will now have an uncluttered table - I often having a table and use paste special with formatted selected
  

This is really an enormous tool - you have to use it to appreciate what a help it is

Pat Geary's site on how to use for Genealogy and in Frontpage

IETab enables a MSIE tab in Firefox

This is a MS Windows only Addon

I wanted to switch to Firefox BUT Ancestry.com have an advanced image viewer that only works in MSIE - you can see census etc images in FF but they are better in MSIE

IE Tab also allows FF to behave like MSIE. Simply it puts an icon on bottom right status line - its Firefox when Firefox and click to make it MSIE.

I also like Table2Clipboard and I use that to paste Ancestry data lists of people in census - so that needs to be Firefox - so I only click IE Tab when I want to look at an image.

IE Tab cannot provide a navigation history

So this is how I use - I leave Ancestry as FF - do not put in IETab list of sites - then I get the navigation history - when I want to see an image - click right on image icon and select Open in IETab - it is wonderful

JSVIEW and Firefox

I have a family history web site http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~lankshear/ created with an html editor (Frontpage - could be Nvu etc). As I publish from my hard drive, I have a copy there and I like to navigate to files I want to edit using my web browser.
MSIE always allowed this as it had an Open in Editor icon ie Frontpage or whatever you set up in options.
BUT I have been finding Ie7 unstable and wanted to use Firefox.

But I could not see a way to open my files in Frontpage.
Anyhow I just found an add on JSVIEW

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2076/

the options include pick your own editor. So now I just right click on the page when in Firefox
select Jsview and up comes FP.
Also CSS support and other features which I have yet to explore

ReminderFox - a great reminder and todo list

Technical - Addons Firefox and Thunderbird

ReminderFox I really want to get my life under control - and I have been trying lots of Calendar and TODO list programs. At first sight yesterday this is the best. Just the way the little knot appears in bottom right corner and moving cursor over it THE MAJOR items appear.

Note you can have it in Thunderbird and Firefox - you just need to go into options and adjust the File used so as the same in both - full instructions atReminderFox

There are lots of features but for quick calendar and major ToDo stuff this is good

You can have it RF running in both apps but just in one lot of options turn off Alerts else the Alarms come up double

The tomb in Talpiyot, a Jerusalem neighborhood

The tomb in Talpiyot, a Jerusalem neighborhood
A new film and book claim it is the Tomb of Jesus Christ and contains his remains. Discovery Channel first showed the film on 4 March 2007
(This blog was written before the show goes to air and I have only read about the press conference. I have some links for people who have seen the film ).

The Book page which finishes "The latest research on how the 'forgotten' gospels, like the Gnostic gospels and Gospel of Mary, hint at the truth of this discovery." Note HINT - not evidence but hints......
This appears to be the movie site http://www.jesusfamilytomb.com./
which says "Tombs with the names The Virgin Mary, Jesus of Nazareth, Mary Magdalene and Judah, their son, are found."
Note: those names as shown above are not in the tomb - Virgin is not in the tomb and neither is Nazareth nor Magdalene - or even "their son". The names as found are:

On Six ossuary, or bone box are inscribed as below - 4 others were not inscribed

(1) Yehudah bar Yeshua
(2)Yeshua bar Yoseph
(3) Maria (Latin)
(4) Matia
(5) Yose
(6) Mariamene e Mara (written in Greek).
other subjects to discuss
DNA
Statistics of names
1980 to 2007
Talpiyot Tomb supposed link - "James son of Joseph brother of Jesus"

Talpiyot Tomb - Recommended Sites

The whole basis of Christianity is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. H was buried in a shroud in a tomb and arose from there. John the disciple was shaken when he saw the shroud left behind. He was not left to rot and then had his bones placed in a box. A body left behind is in utter conflict with Christian belief.

Do read the Wikipedia article They even record a major expert as saying the name is not Yeshua but "Hanun"