We visited the Valley Of The Kings and the Valley Of The Queens when we were in Egypt cruising on the Royal Viking in December and took lots of photos using both our new Lumix digital camera and our iPhone.  Both cameras are excellent for different reasons. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve just received a nice email from Shirley and Brian Poulton who’ve just returned from a Nile Cruise and Cairo holiday on board the MS. Stephanie.

They’ve kindly added a link to their Nile Cruise and Cairo photographs on Flickr.  Why not visit their Flickr gallery and see their great shots of Cairo and their time on the MS. Stephanie?

For the last few years I have hosted our Nile Cruise photograph gallery on Flickr.com but earlier this week I watched a video created by Robert Scoble on the Scobleizer Blog about a new (to me) company called SmugMug.com which offers the same sort of facilities for photograph hosting as Flickr but with some great features and extras that make it look a great alternative.

I’m going to sign up for an account and see what the differences are and I’ll report back in a few weeks.  In the meantime please pop over to SmugMug and take a look for yourself.

This is a panoramic view of a pretty empty Nile Cruises 4u office, after closing time.   You can just about see Barbara up at the end of the office.

Why post this pic?

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I love TweetDeck, the facility that allows you to see quickly and easily the various people you are following on Twitter.

I know people think Twitter is just a waste of time for people with nothing better to do with themselves but I strongly disagree.  If you have any interests at all, whether it be bird watching, cycling or reaggae music, you will defintely find some really interesting people and resources by using Twitter.

You can use Twitter Search and put in the search term that you are seeking and you are bound to find some really useful and fascinating people using Twitter.

If you then add them to your TweetDeck you will be able to see, periodically, the latest Tweet posts that they have made.  By doing so you will find a whole bunch of really interesting information and resources that you would otherwise probably not come across.

At college, (all those hundreds of years ago!!) we endured a subject called “Information Technology”, which, in the days when personal computers were not even in existance, was the most boring subject imaginable.

The “Technolgy” bit was fine, but there was no “Information”.  I absolutely hated it.  But now, using these faboulous developments such as Twitter, etc, etc, Information Technology is the lifeblood of the Internet.

“What’s this got to do with Nile Cruise Photos and Costco?” I can hear you say…

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