Higher Paw-er by Mozart Dane

Higher Paw-er by Mozart Dane,
originally uploaded by hhdane_mom.

This gorgeous 16" x 20" acrylic on canvas painting was created by Mozart, painting with his paws. Mozart paints to bring awareness to the plight of dogs in puppy mills and to raise funds to care for the homeless dogs at Harlequin Haven Great Dane Rescue. Mozart will be featured in a gallery show in December at the Mac Worthington Gallery on the Short North in Columbus, Ohio.

Dori from flickr to You

Dori,
originally uploaded by hhdane_mom.

So now I'm experimenting with posting my images from flickr to Blogger. It's fairly easy too, but as flickr is not a Google product it took a couple of extra steps more than my Picasa to Blogger posting.

This is my youngest Dane, Dori.

eBay Widgets

Assignment #7 Blog About Technology

This is an eBay widget--it is very easy to create one to keep track of specific items or searches. This one is from my off-work life and shows the current sale items that I have on eBay for the Great Dane Rescue. On the work side of things, many archivists and special collections librarians use eBay as a means to procure new acquisitions in their collecting areas.

The eBay To Go page has a simple wizard to create one. Mouse over to see basic info, click for more details.

Picasa and Blogger

This is an experiment to see how the Picasa/Blogger interface works. Picasa is the Google desktop image management and Web sharing application. I use Picasa everyday to manage and search for my images both at home and at work.

At work I use Picasa to work with large numbers of images kept on the file server. At home I use it for images of the items I sell on eBay as a representative of the Great Dane Rescue. (You may say why not just use the thumbnail feature in Windows Explorer, but most of my images are large high res ones and the Windows "solution" doesn't work for them.)

Anyway, I found the Picasa/Blogger interface to work well and was quite easy! From Picasa select an image then just click on the Blogger button! After a log in screen it puts you right into Blogger and there you select which blog to add the image to, then compose the post.

Here's a photo I really like of my partner Dale and his dog Gidget sitting on our front steps in autumn 2005. Unfortunately Gidget is no longer with us.

flickr-ed

Assignment #5 Discover Flickr

Yes, I've finally been flickr-ed. So far I just have a few images of my pets up. I don't own a working camera or camera phone so I'm not "ate up" with digital images of my own.