What if you had a flag and
didn't fly it at half mast because you thought Reagan wasn't a good
guy. Can you still be an American? I mean, what makes that particular
war lord special enough for a flag at half mast. I really don't think
being president should be enough to qualify you for all flags in the
nation to fly half mast when you die. Maybe if you were a good man and
a president, but Reagan?

Today, we headed out to get more flowers for our award winning garden. I am not so much into
gardening as Matthew and Terry but I am interested in food plants and spices. While we we here I found 18 kinds of mint, and 6 kinds of basil
and yes, the pineapple mint really tastes like pineapple.

mint types: watermint, spearmint, silver, pineapple, perfume, peppermint, orange, mountain, lime, lemon, ginger, corsican,curly, catmint, candy, blue balsam, blackberry, apple

basil type: african, cinamon, italian, lemon, spicy globe, thai

Below are some pics I just took of matthew and Terry contemplating their purchases.




Here are some shots of the mint and basil varieties.




This place is huge and they seem to have everything. It is also nice that it's local and not just another trip to homedepoop.

It's located at 2722 Clinton. Take the 190 N to Clinton, go left and it will be on your left. Check it out.

Here is my favorite the Dahlia.

We have a forum here that people seem to pay attention to. The next question becomes, how do we draw more writers and how do we begin to critically analyze our community, both the virtual and real versions, so that it makes sense.

We should use it to inspire the betterment of our community, maybe even form a citizens action committee.

Artists, you can also use this as a venue for talking about your work.

Soon, I will be also developing new modules for peer restaurant review, local business reviews, and (e:peeps) (social networking.) Any other ideas? Just post them on your journal.

If you wan to suscbribe to a particular journal with your rss agrigator, simply click on the RSS link in the users Link list. make sure to install your aggregator first. See the info journal for more instructions.

Update: You can now get to a users journal by clicking on their nam ein the chat window.

XML and RSS rock my world. Now you can also have your world rocked by RSS newsfeeds thanks to some slick evening programming of mine. Check out the news journal [inlink]news,329[/inlink] for more information and find out how to explore RSS.

The best part about this whole RSS newfeed thing is that many people making the feeds are not even the creators of the sites. They are people doing something called scraping. Scaping is taking important content off a another web site and sending it as an RSS feed. For example, a news site minus the advertisments.

Rss is also very mobile because the feeds are little. Using the mac program on the news journal, you can even read your RSS feeds on you iPod. I read them on my phone. They are fast, fun, and efficient and you can find hundreds of RSS feeds out there to subscribe to. Also try searcing on feedster, the online search engine for RSS feeds. Sharpreader can search feedster right from the program.