Yay

Just saw on the news (well, about thirty minutes ago, but whatever), that Kristen Trotter boarded a cruise ship over the weekend and is now out of Lebanon (presumably in Cyprus for now, eventually back in Alabama). So that's good news.

Also, I've gotten all my May journal entries up on my Ghana web page. I'll work on the June ones in the coming days. Enjoy!

http://www.krgilbert.net/ghana

(for the journal, click the "Journal" link at top).

Strange liquid

There's a strange liquid falling out of the sky right now. Someone, quick, remind me what it is. Is it this "rain" they've been saying we're so short on? I'm so dumbfounded!

Ghana Page

I'm working on getting some changes done to my Ghana page. Among the changes:

1. Journal entries (I finally got it back). These will take a while, but I've gotten about six of them done thus far--through May 25. I hope to have the rest done by month's end.

2. Picture descriptions. This is partially for my own memory. Again, I hope to have this done by month's end.

3. Spiffy new front page image. Simply an outline of Alabama with the Ghanaian flag contained in its boundaries. (Photoshop is a great thing!). I'll work on this some to make it fancier eventually, but I thought it looked good on the front page.

http://www.krgilbert.net/ghana/

So see some photo descriptions, read journal entries, marvel at the front page image, and enjoy the page! (And keep checking back every couple of days for changes and updates).

Apparently I know someone in Beirut, Lebanon right now. (If you happen to have seen it on the news, it's Senior UA Journalism Major Kristen Trotter). Apparently she's interning with Beirut's main newspaper. She's an RUFer, attends Riverwood, etc. I'm reasonably close to her, so as you can imagine I'm a bit concerned. I just thought I'd share that.

Almost Back

Well, it looks like Alabama Maps will be back up and running soon. Most of the historic maps are back up, but the aerial photographic collection is still down and may well be fore a while, but this is better than we were two weeks ago, indeed better than we were as of 11:45 on Friday morning (the point at which the new server came online and the new linking method was discovered).

It's not as glum as we thought previously. Yay! Please patronize us!
http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/

yay!