Introducing ClustrMaps from clustrmaps.com

I have just installed a nifty free graphics tool on this site called "ClustrMaps" from clustrmaps.com. It shows a small map of the world and indicates - by means of clusters of red dots - where "hits" on the blog site are emanating from, around the world.

I came across it being used on another blog and was so impressed that I put it into all the blogs that I maintain.

Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com

I have just installed an incredibly useful and free little tool on this site called "Snap Shots" from snap.com. It makes for a more informative blog, and it makes reading the blog more efficient for the reader. I came across it being used on another blog and was very impressed. I initially tried it out on one blog, and have since put it into the other blogs that I maintain. What it does is this:

• When you hover your mouse over a link in the blog (see the little icon to the right of the link?), it gives you more information about the link - maybe even a miniature display of it. i.e., it enhances some links by providing visual previews.
• The further information allows the reader to choose whether they want to follow that particular link to find out more. This would seem to be a better alternative to following the link and only then finding that actually it is not very interesting/useful to you.

Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while at other times it lets you "look ahead," before deciding if you want to follow a link or not.

Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and opt-out.

There's a good discussion about Snap Shots on the blog here. It's all about "drilling" links.

Take a look and post a comment!

Take a look and post a comment - if you would like to become a member and contributor (make posts) to this blog.

I already made a comment (see below). Just click on "Comments", below, to make your own comment.

Look - I just posted Tony Jhangiani's email about the reunion!

It's really easy. I did this by importing the document to Google Docs, and then publishing it to this site from there. (I added Tony's photo on 2008 0218.)

April 2, 2007
Dear Alumni from the good old '50s and '60s (Graduation years 1950 - 1969)
As you might know through the Aiglon Alumni office, a reunion for the Alumni '50s and '60s is being organised in Villars from 19th-22nd September this year.
Over the years Aiglon has seen the visit of many Alumni who often talk and ask about friends from their years at Aiglon.
This will be a great opportunity to get together with some of them and to revive memories and re-acquaint with old friends in the ideallic environment we enjoyed during our Swiss school days.
A suggested programme would include :

1. Welcome meal on campus
2. Meditation every morning (first one by the Headmaster, second one by an alumnus)
3. Fondue at the Golf Club restaurant - Take the BVB train up and down
4. Campus tour by students
5. Coffee and croissants with the NEW Headmaster and older staff
6. Gentle walk / expedition up to Solalex or somewhere... With lunch in restaurant or picnic
7. A round of gold at the 18 hole Villars Golf Club - certainly one of the best vistas in the world.
8. A day trip to the valley including a boat trip to EVIAN and a wine tour around Lausanne.
9. An evening with some of the local residents of Villars who remember many of us from our days at school.

We have secured a discount for guests staying at the Golf Hotel (Formerly the Marie Louise, opposite Villars train station).
Please send us your email address and that of any other alumni whose contacts you might have.
Please also let Ms. Rebecca Leam of Alumni Relations, (Fax:+41-24-496-6162, E-mail : RSL at aiglon dot ch) know of your fax numbers or e-mail addresses for the school records.
Looking forward to hearing from you "Yah or Nay" or and/any comments that you might have.
On behalf of the Organising Group

Tony Jhangiani Jashanmal ('65)

Initial post to see what it could look like

This is an initial post to the blog, just to provide an example of what it could look like. If you wanted to be a blog member with the ability to make posts, then this post is the sort of thing you could do.

The site as a whole is variable, and is controlled by the "Administrator" - i.e., me. The Administrator can change all of the "settings" for this blog site. That means changes can be made to such things as, for example:

• background colour
• text colour
• colour of borders
• the placement and content of "panels" of text or links, photo albums, advertising, etc.
  
• the addition/removal of panels

- all are variable to suit our needs.

You can insert clickable URLs (links) to other websites
- e.g., the Aiglon College website (hover your mouse over this link)

As well as making bullet point lists like the one above, you could make numbered lists:

1. First point
2. Second point
3. Third point

You can insert pictures as well.