{"id":10155,"date":"2011-04-26T16:01:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T22:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10155"},"modified":"2016-05-14T11:52:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T17:52:11","slug":"using-tech-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10155","title":{"rendered":"Using Tech Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Bee Hiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>This morning Kate and I had our weekly business meeting.\u00a0 Those Amazon books add up.\u00a0 We&#8217;re well into the first growing season with Kate retired.\u00a0 It makes the whole process seem less urgent, more manageable from my perspective.\u00a0 I like that.\u00a0 Having Mark here right now helps, too.<\/p>\n<p>After that I checked my translation on Diana and Actaeon, the 10 verses I&#8217;m preparing for my reading\/translation lesson on Friday.\u00a0 The second time through I found several things I missed the first time.\u00a0 I believe my translation is improving, improving quickly right now.\u00a0 Some sort of developmental break through, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>After that I fiddled with Firefox 4.0.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the latest version of the favorite non-windows browser though I understand Chrome (Google) has begun to catch up.\u00a0 It seems to be a bit slower with g-mail and the MIA website, but it makes up for it with its cool new feature, Panorama.\u00a0 Panorama allows you to group frequently used tabs together in transparent collections accessible through a small tab at the top of the browser.<\/p>\n<p>This way, when I move into Latin, for example, I can click once and up comes Perseus with my section of the Metamorphoses already loaded, along with the word find tool.\u00a0 Another example, a weather tab holds my Andover NOAA page, Paul Douglas&#8217; blog, Chanhassen NOAA weather story and a moon phase calendar.\u00a0 All one click away.\u00a0 Pretty neat.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also time to start working on my Spanish tour for next week.\u00a0 I called up Microsoft Notes, a program I wonder how I worked without now.\u00a0 I opened a new notebook, titled it Art History Research and put in a tab, Spanish Tour May 5, 2011.\u00a0 Now I&#8217;ll have my tours all in one handy place with talking points beside each piece.\u00a0 Pretty neat.<\/p>\n<p>A guy like me, who switches between diverse interests with regularity throughout a day and a week, finds work accelerated in pleasant ways with these organizational tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Bee Hiving Moon This morning Kate and I had our weekly business meeting.\u00a0 Those Amazon books add up.\u00a0 We&#8217;re well into the first growing season with Kate retired.\u00a0 It makes the whole process seem less urgent, more manageable from my perspective.\u00a0 I like that.\u00a0 Having Mark here right now helps, too. After that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Using Tech Tools<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,65,23,566],"tags":[3314,3253,3315,111,3316,3317],"class_list":["post-10155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-family","category-geekworld","category-humanities","tag-business-meeting","tag-diana-and-actaeon","tag-firefox-40","tag-kate","tag-panorama","tag-spanish-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40730,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155\/revisions\/40730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}