I was listening to Allison Sheridan on the NosillaCast Podcast yesterday, and she had a segment on Cool Iris, which is a plug in for your browser that enables you to view pictures on the internet in a 3D wall. Descriptions of the pictures appear when you position your mouse over each picture. You can use it on YouTube, Flickr, Google, Amazon and other sites to view pictures about news, entertainment, technology, politics, etc. If you love looking at pictures on the web, you'll love Cool Iris!

I hope you are not laboring today since today is a holiday for all of us laborers in the US. It's been a nice long week-end for me, but I'll be going back to work tomorrow like most people. Labor day is traditionally the end of Summer and the beginning of the Fall season, which is my favorite season. So, if you've worked hard all year, take this day as a day to relax and enjoy.

If you Twitter, you should also TWYE or tweet what you eat! Tweetwhatyoueat (TWYE for short) is a Twitter-based food diary. Use Twitter to track what you eat and your weight, by ‘tweeting’ food items to your personal food diary on Tweetwhatyoueat.com from your mobile phone, IM or through Twitter.

I'm taking an online class from August to December 08 entitled Dreamweaver CS3. I bought the software a few weeks ago. Now, I just have to figure out how to use it. I know I could go through all of the exercises in any Dreamweaver CS3 book and learn how, but having the structure of the class helps me to actually finish. I've taken classes on HTML and CSS so now I want to learn how the WYSIWYG editor works. I've got to tell you, though, it's tedious. I wish there was an easier way. Something like waving a magic wand, but I guess the only way is to study and practice. Hopefully, some day I'll be able to redesign this site!!

I haven't abandoned my crochet hobby for my iPhone, but I haven't been able to crochet as much in the past few weeks. I just finished the above afghan last week. It's 36" x 56" so it is more of a lap afghan. The pattern is available for free at Project Linus. It is very easy and quick. It can be made into a baby afghan by changing the type and color of the yarn.

I've been enjoying my iPhone since I got it about a month ago. The applications are fantastic. I love reading the blogs about favorite applications, so I thought I'd post mine. Here they are:

• Twinkle, which is a Twitter application that keeps you in touch with your friends and others who you choose to "follow".
• Exposure, which shows photos from Flickr. You can also see photos that were taken in your location, wherever you happen to be at any given moment.
• Pandora allows you to select a favorite recording artist and a radio station is created around that artist or you can select a mix of all of your favorite artists.
• WeightTrack keeps track of your weight and gives you a history of each date and how much you weighed. This helps keep me on track.