[AT] An album for Cecil

[Larry D. Goss]

Rob, Mike, Charlie, and others -- I agree that a separate archive from
the complete list archive would be preferable.  I'm certainly no expert
on archiving, but it should be a fairly simple process to extract the
stories Cecil told us and convert them into PDF.  Yes, PDF is less
susceptible to editing.  That's one of the beauties of it, and everyone
has access to Acrobat Reader so they can view the files on their system
at their leisure.  The problem would simply be naming them in some
fashion that makes sense to people so they can find items that they
want.  Possibly "subject matter by date" would work.  

I have put over 6000 pages of material into PDF format in the last six
months, but I don't have a fast enough connection to the Internet to do
the basic work of downloading Cecil's files so they can be organized.
I'm still in the dark ages when it comes to Internet connection -- I'm
still using a dial-up modem.

Mike -- Ofoto, Fotki, and a bunch of others have good organizational
capabilities, but you might want to consider Picasa2 if you haven't
tried it yet.  Once I "unlearned" 40 years of experience at filenaming
on computers, I found using Picasa to be a snap.  It has the drag and
drop features that we've come to expect from applications like Power
Point, but in addition it has unlimited picture captioning and any
single image can be "Labeled" an unlimited number of times.  Labels in
Picasa are virtual file folders that exist solely for the purpose of
grouping images for a slide show.

Anyway, it would be nice if someone on the list would take this project
under their wing.

Larry

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Mike Sloane
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 5:53 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: [AT] An album for Cecil

Cecil Monson was one of my very good friends, and we made more than our 
share of "road trips" together to move tractors and other "stuff". At 
the site below is an album I am starting with images of Cecil and some 
of the good times we all had. If you have an image of him from Portland,

Beilors, or whatever that you would like to see in the album, feel free 
to send them to me at my Email address <mikesloane at verizon.net>, and I 
will upload them to the album. It doesn't matter how good or large or 
small they are, but I would appreciate some information that I can put 
into a caption.

<http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/cecil_monson_1930-2005/>

I just put the images up a few minutes ago, and I will be arranging them

and putting captions on them as I get time. I also have some more 
images, but I need to go through a few dozen Zip drives to find them
all...

Mike
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Mike Sloane
Allamuchy NJ
mikesloane at verizon.net
Website: <www.geocities.com/mikesloane>
Images: <www.fotki.com/mikesloane>

When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths 
or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas 
or goals are in doubt. -Robert T. Pirsig, author and philosopher (1928-)


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