As many of you know, Tamara and I also run Quillcards – the blog and the ecard service – and this week we’ve joined in with other Lonely Planet Blogsherpa authors for a carnival of posts on the theme of getting an internet connection.

It’s all about the trials and tribulations – and the highlights of getting an internet connection when you are on the road in some far-flung country.

So I invite you to pop across and take a look at Alpaca Suitcase – the blog that is hosting the from across the planet.

You never know when you might be seeking an internet connection yourself 🙂

Sheep
For something closer to home, here is a sheep I saw a couple of weeks ago – scratching its back under a tree and then standing and surveying the land.

Enjoy!
           

When I was your age, lad, we didn't have any of this namby-pamby digital lark – it was all hard analog graft.

Kids today – wouldn't know the difference between a needle and a woofer.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woofer]

I have written about this more extensively elsewhere, describing the background to how my wife has been writing about endangered wildlife in a series of articles for the the Endangered Species Coalition.

She has been writing about the animals and birds that have been and continue to be at risk because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

There is a double threat to their survival because not only have they are their food sources been covered in oil, but it is also the breeding season.

I believe in the redemptive power of people and of the Earth, but that doesn’t mean that everything survives.

The Alabama beach mouse, to take one of the endangered animals, has survived threats from building expansion. Thanks to steps that were taken to protect its habitat, it was doing well.

It makes a little plug of sand to close the entrance to its burrow. Then came the oil from the spill in the Gulf. I can just imagine it working like crazy to keep itself and its family safe.

When I think of the oil executives talking as though they were living high above ground in some ethereal space where a balance sheet smoothes everything out and reduces little problems like a mouse to something less….

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Styling Problems
I just read an article on the well-respected OneCoolSiteBloggingTips blog written by Timethief. The particular article I was reading was a guest post written by Richard, another respected blogger, who write a blog named Sacred Path.

Richard’s article was how to deal with the strange occurrence that happens sometimes when the paragraphing in a WordPress post just doesn’t work and the lines are all messed up.

The article on how to deal with it is at No paragraph spacing in post-page editor.

Styling Tips
To round up this review, here is a tip from me. I don’t claim any originality here and I just researched the code (took me all of two minutes to find it) – but I think it is very useful.

So – do you sometimes want to ‘end’ your blog posts with a bit more of a flourish than just typing the last word?

Perhaps a horizontal line that goes part-way across the page?

Here is how to do it, Just type this code and the line will appear: <center><hr width=80%></center> like you can see here:

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There is a post over at the Quillcards Blog that takes a look at Edinburgh, capital of Scotland. There are several photographs (taken with a Panasonic LX3) to accompany the story of a visit to what is described as a very dramatic city.