Kat’s TravelBlog

Stories from the road for friends and family

Archive for 2007/01


A new look

… for the new year. I thought the previous theme I’d used for this site (Dark Maple) was very pretty, but rather autumnal. When I found this one (Fast Lane), it was so perfect for a travel-based blog, I decided to change it out. Hope you like it! Anyway, I was browsing through a whole [...]

Here it is!

Purdy, ain’t it? Here’s another shot: It will be kind of a shame to tow this, it drives so nicely. But that is what we bought it for… However, if we can’t find a suitable tow-bar locally, I might have to drive it to Lazy Days, where they’re bound to have one available. Wouldn’t that [...]

Heartbreak!!

The dealer couldn’t find us an Altima to meet our specs! So, we HAD to buy a Z® car instead. What a hardship!! We should have it Monday. The “trim” we selected is called the Enthusiast. That means we get cruise control and audio controls on the steering wheel as well as whatever comes with [...]

New Car Fever

For the past 10 years or so, I’ve been driving a Nissan Maxima, which I like very much. However, it is getting a bit long in the tooth, and while it runs quite well, there are a few things starting to fail, like the audio system and the tachometer. Nothing critical, but annoying. More problematic [...]

New Toy

Just a quick note (it’s late), but I wanted to post a couple of pictures I took in November, when we first returned to Florida. The occassion is that I downloaded the beta version of PhotoShop CS3, the first version that’s Mac Universal, so it doesn’t have to go through the Rosetta emulator. That makes [...]

Ubuntu Linux and Firefox Extension (Diigo)

Today I downloaded Ubuntu Linux and installed it in a Parallels virtual machine on my Intel iMac. One of the first things I did with it was fired up Firefox and browsed through some of the available extensions for that browser. I found one I think will be really useful, called Diigo, which allows one [...]

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