Curious about your typing speed?
http://labs.jphantom.com/wpm/

Type a paragraph of given text and it will tell you how fast you can type.

Today, I'm typing at 79.23 WPM.

What's your record?

Every now and then, I find something that grabs my attention and says "this has real applications right now!" YourGMap is one of those things.

YourGMap is a FREE web based application that lets you create your
own map and publish it to the web so you can link to it from any web
page or email message. I quickly put together a map of the west district county offices and research stations.
Because this is based on Google's Map program, you can pinpoint down to
within a 100 yards or so or you can map points across the country or
world. You can indicate a location by street address, GPS coordinates
or by pointing to it on the map. You can also add comments to each
location. I choose to include the address and entered the phone and fax
numbers. Once you've created a map, you can go back and edit it later
to remove or adjust your locations or add more locations to it.

How could an Extension Agent use this?

• Map your demonstration farms. Use different color pointers to indicate different types of demonstrations.


• Map disease or insect outbreaks.


• Map the largest trees in the county.


• Map the roadside vegetable stands.


• Map the 4-H Clubs meeting places.


• Map the locations where you will be teaching a nutrition class. Use the
  comments to indicate the date and time for that location.

These are just a few ideas that I thought of off the top of my head.
I'm sure you can think of many more that apply to your work.

It's been a while since I've had time to blog.  Here are several sites that I've found that were useful or just interesting.

http://hes.lbl.gov/

The Home Energy Saver is designed to help
consumers identify the best ways to save energy in their homes, and
find the resources to make the savings happen.  The project is sponsored by the U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE), as part of the national ENERGY STAR Program for
improving energy efficiency in homes, with previous support from the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US Department of
Housing and Urban Development's PATH program, and the California
Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program.

The
Home Energy Saver computes a home's energy use on-line. Users can
estimate how much energy and money can be saved and how much emissions
can be reduced by implementing energy-efficiency improvements. All end
uses (heating, cooling, major appliances, lighting, and miscellaneous
uses) are included. A detailed description of underlaying calculation
methods and data is provided in a series of specials reports.

Here's another site with images you can use:

Wikimedia Commons uses the same wiki-technology as Wikipedia and thus everyone can edit it easily and without advanced technical skills directly in the web browser.

Unlike traditional media repositories Wikimedia Commons is free. Everyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files here freely as long the source and the authors are credited and as long you release your copies/improvements under the same freedom to others. The Wikimedia Commons database itself and the texts in it are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. The license conditions of each individual media file can be found on their description pages.

Contribute your work

If you're a good photographer don't hesitate to contribute your valuable images, if you're a good musician or film/theater artist do not hesitate to publish your own records of your performances of free pieces here.