Update #2 8:00pm Sunday

A looong day, but here we are at Eaglehawk Holiday Park, which is actually in NSW, on the far north-eastern edge of the greater Canberra area. The kids were amused that we actually drove into the ACT on the Barton Hwy, then turned onto the Federal Hwy to go back into NSW. A downpour greeted us, but all kids are now organized in their rooms, and fed (lasagna & chips) and watered. Miss Carroll and Mrs Brennan are distributing the children's special camp shirts now, in readiness for tomorrow, when we visit Parliament House.

Everyone enjoyed Western Plains Zoo. I believe the siamangs, giraffes and spider monkeys were the most popular exhibits.

Another video on the bus, and we arrived at the Parkes Radio Telescope in time to see it swing around 180 degrees. Lunch, and then a fairly quiet trip through to Canberra.

Some random highlights of the day:

• Alec Schmidt: Dubbo Zoo
  
• Adam Nearhos: sleeping on the bus
  
• Hamish McGovern: the Dish
  

Photos to come soon.

An entry directly from Word

Another experiment. This time, the blog post is being written using Word's "New blogpost" option.

Experiment with MI

Today I am uploading two photos and some text using my Telstra Moibile internet connection. There are a couple of reasons why I am doing this.

First, I wanted to check the Picasa editing/resizing tools. The two photos appearing here have been resized from about 900k and 780k to both under 100k. I am curious as to what size on the page they will appear. If I’m not happy, I will look at using one of the other editing programs to do this.

Second, I am of course interested in how long it takes to upload text and photos using the IM service. Time is of the essence!

The process I have used is this: photos loaded from camera to PC. In this case, I have used photos I took a couple of weeks ago during the “Great Dust Storm of ‘09”. Photos were resized, and placed in a new folder. The text has been written and edited in Word, and will be uploaded to Blogger once I am online. I need to check out the blogging by email functionality of Blogger. I Have already noted to differences to WordPress. 1. Only one page in your blog and 2. Some of the gadgets don’t want to work properly.

From my Eudora email account.

This post is an experiment using the upload by email option in Blogger.
This facility could be of great use while travelling, as the connect
time can be considerably less than when writing directly into
Blogger, or even when writing in Word and importing to Blogger.
I'm looking forward with some excitement to using these facilities
over the next couple of weeks.