Sharon and Jacques’ Excellent Blog

Sharon and I traveled to Hong Kong and the Phillipines in November 2009. We spent 3 days in the Phillipines doing a bit of shopping and saw a few sites. We then flew to Manila where we stayed with some friends, doing lots of shopping drinking and touring. Thanks for Neil and Avon for having us and [...]

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Sharon and I took two weeks off from May 16-30 and went to St. Lucia and stayed at the Grand, one of 3 Sandals properties on the island. We had a relaxing time with a few hiccups and it was great to get away.
I have posted a gallery of the pictures from the trip. I’ve [...]

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The spring migration is picking up. After the sweltering heat of Saturday (31C), it dropped down to a drizzly 9C on Sunday, excellent birding weather. I went hawk watching on Saturday and managed to miss the big broadwing migration on Friday. Colin, a fellow hawkwatcher, set a new personal record for Beamer with over 8,000 [...]

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I recently upgraded the web site photo software. One of the features it enabled was using an Internet Explorer plug-in called Cooliris to view photo walls of the picture galleries. It also works on lots of other websites like YouTube, Google, and Flickr.
To install Cooliris, simply surf to www.cooliris.com and click on the Download Now button [...]

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Sharon and I spent Christmas afternoon and evening with the Ballards. As a gift, we purchased them a copy of Rockband II only to find out that they already had it so we just played theirs instead. A fun and hilarious afternoon was had by all playing Rockband, eating and drinking. Even Ian’s turkey was [...]

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