This should have been for Skywatch Friday

Right now we've got tons of snow so this picture doesn't show the current state of Belgrade, this was taken last week when we had a warm day and gorgeous skies.

This internet issue was a fiasco. First of all I'm a complete moron when it comes to internet connectivity because I've always had my brother to set everything up for me, but not anymore. Our internet provider kept telling us, "try this and call us tomorrow if it doesn't work (to supposedly give the modem time to reset I guess?" "we're sending a guy to you within 3 business days (weekend doesn't count)" and then tack another three days onto that. Finally two guys show up late one evening and after doing some stuff say, "Give the modem an hour and if it doesn't work take your modem in to exchange it, or even if it DOES work take it in" of course it doesn't work, we take it in when we can and then are told to wait another day for the internet company to somehow activate the modem on their end blah blah blah. Ohhh well. At least now it's pretty much working.

Chess Game in Fog - Skywatch Friday

It's foggy, it's cold, it's dark, but it doesn't stop these two from playing chess.
This picture was taken January 14th, but I thought it fit for today's Skywatch Friday because today was similarly foggy. BUT right now we don't have any snow on the ground like in this photo.



And just for fun here's another version of this pic with Alien Skin's Snap Art plugin for Photoshop. This plugin is really fun to play with. You can download a free trial here: http://www.alienskin.com/snapart/

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Skywatch Friday and How to Add Blogger Label Cloud

This was taken earlier in the week at Kalemegdan Park.

I'm trying a new blog layout! I wanted more columns but still wanted to keep my pictures at 700px. And I'm thrilled with the labels cloud for blogger, where instead of a long simple list of tags (i.e. labels) they're displayed in a "cloud" with a larger font for tags used more frequently. There are ready-made widgets that will do that, but usually they'll make tags from any of the text on your blog and you'll wind up with some screwy keywords. I found (and followed) these instructions for changing the blogger list of labels to the cloud here: phydeaux 3. If you're not used to customizing your blogs' html/xml settings it might look complicated on first glance, but actually it's pretty step-by-step, cut-and-paste. And then visitors to your blog can browse by topic without having to scroll down a long, long list of tags! :-)

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What looks like a crow flying across a lovely sky, last week.
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I wish I'd gotten a snap with the person with the cane more in the frame, but I couldn't really see what I was photographing at the time.

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Park near Slavija again

This is the playground that you could just barely see in the distance in yesterday's photo, taken from the opposite side of the park. Usually it's crawling with children but at this particular hour it was just us pigeons.
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Unofficial skywatch

I went up to the rooftop to bring in laundry, and ran right back down to grab my camera. It was a lovely sky tonight.