Language Translation Tool

After several attempts, I believe I finally have it working properly. Courtesy of Google and an unknown author of the code, Bill Shields’ Online Travel Notebook now has the ability to translate my post into other languages. It will be interesting to see how accurate machine language translation can be. I’ll try and occasional check the Spanish translation. Until next time, Buenos Días!

New Feature! Flickr Flash Badge

I've just added a new feature - Flickr Flash Badge. It will be right under the Welcome section on the right column. The badge random cycles through my photos, on Flickr of course. You can go directly to my photos on Flickr by clicking on the badge (and if you are fast the specific photo to which you point), or if you prefer you can scroll down on and go to the photos through the organized links under the Photography Channel label.

All of my photographs have be tagged, at least with geographic information. As time permits I will tag the photographs with the specific tags appropriate for the individual photographs. In the mean time have fun exploring. And as always, all comments are appreciated.

Photography Update

In one hour and seven minutes the 2007 Tour de France begins - from London! But that’s not why I’m writing. The list of photo sets has become unmanageable on the home page so I have reorganized the sets into collections, so if you are looking for a particular city you will find it until it’s countries or continents name.

I have finally edited some photos from South African, Sani Pass and Lesotho. I just wanted to let you know that the Flickr gallery is linked. You can find the links on the right side of the page under the Photography Channel.

Let me know what you think! Enjoy.

More on the Tour soon.

Journal News & Updates

Time for a few updates, I’ve begun to re-establish the photo links – the first few are completed. I should have the rest of the links set-up by the end of the day.

I have also added a video bar to the home page. All you have to do to view the video is double clink on it and Youtube will do the rest. I will try and change the video every few weeks. Alternatively, you can click on the video channel (on the right hand side of the page) and you will be taken to Youtube where you can view all the videos I have available.

Another addition to the page is a frappr map. It is located at the bottom of the page. It is a simple way of seeing where viewers are located, so please add yourself, and leave a comment.

I still have not completed the work on the Audio Channel – it is still in testing mode. I hope to have the audio up and running in the next few months.

In the mean time I hope you are enjoying the posts and photographs. I will try and add new material as often as possible. Let me hear your comments, or suggestions. A comments link is provided after every post; or if you would rather write to me privately - send an email to bill.shields@verizon.net.

Flickr.com

A couple of days ago, Yahoo announced that they were discontinuing Yahoo Photo Groups. A while ago Yahoo acquired Flickr and since they had acquired Flickr.com. I guess they decided that Flickr was a better bet than Yahoo Photo and did not see any need to maintain two services.

I have consequently transferred all of my photos to Flickr. It was a fortunate coincident since I had decided recently to use the Flickr service anyway, but I had not gotten around to transferring the photos.

While the photos have been transferred, the transition is far from complete. Consequently, the photo links on the blog are dead. I will get them back up as soon as possible.

Thanks for your patience.

Technorati Spiders

Technorati Profile

Photographs

As I hope you can see I worked on the Journal site. I've learned how to incorporate photographs. I have added an archive section - unfortunately the archive section is designed only for organizing the posts; it is not intended as a repository of photographs or audio files. I have added a link to my Yahoo Photo site. Right now it is a link to a public album (Guatemala, within my Yahoo Photo site), hopefully I will be able to set up a link that directs the reader to a page with all my publicly available albums.

Audio files will be more of a challenge. I will work on setting up a site that will serve as a repository for my audio files – ultimately I anticipate distributing the audio files as a podcast.