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April 05 Video from Silverlight StreamingThe Silverlight Streaming service by Windows Live (currently in trial) provides 10 gigabytes of online video storage for free.
See the website at silveright.live.com.
To get you started with your own streaming video, see Add Video Bling to your Web with Silverlight Streaming. September 09 Waranga Basin panorama photoYou'll find some photos quickly taken across the Waranga Basin and from which a panorama was created using Windows Live Photo Gallery in the Waranga Basin Sep 8 photo album (the name is close... To see how to start using the Windows Live Photo Gallery (you can download it from here, along with other Windows Live programs such as Live Messenger, Mail, Writer and Toolbar), see Live Photo Gallery - getting started - from camera to panorama on webDotWiz Online Has a Space. Here's a preview of the panorama: Posted with Windows Live Writer. May 04 Cloud roll 02-May-2007 photo albumOn Thursday morning, at about 0800, a cloud roll went over and photos I snapped are in an album.
The cloud was moving very quickly in a south-easterly direction (i.e., moving eastward and sliding south-easterly) so by the time I'd walked down the road with dog on his morning walk, snapped most of the photos, and returned to thespot at which I took the first photo, the roll had gone over.
And did it pour rain? No, not a drop. March 29 Rushworth Bird Festival, Easter 2007The Rushworth Bird Festival is part of Rushworth's Easter Saturday community festival. See rushworthbirdfestival.spaces.live.com for more details of what's on and when on Saturday April 7. Quote Rushworth Bird Festival, Easter 2007 February 11 Rushworth trees under stressThe median strip on High Street in Rushworth (said to be the site for shops in the really early days) is grassed and has some old deciduous trees. But the long drought is having a sad effect on these trees, one in particular, which has been losing its leaves over the past couple of weeks. The photo below was taken last week on Tue or Wed, Feb 6 or 7, 2007):
Bushfire photosThere's an album of a few photos taken by one of the volunteer firefighters who was attending to bushfires down in Gippsland around Howitville near Dargo. Here's one:
January 26 Victorian bushfires (demo of embedding a video)Windows Live Spaces has had an update so we can embed videos in a post.
So here's a YouTube video of the Victorian bushfires taken in December. The fires are still going but have quietened down due to a bit of rain.
Over a million hectares have burnt and on the eastern side fires are uncontrolled. Fortunately we haven't had really hot weather with strong northerlies. About 8 inches (200 mm) of rain are needed to make sure the fires are put out.
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