<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067107</id><updated>2009-11-08T20:31:22.946+01:00</updated><title type='text'>AK Photo Blog</title><subtitle type='html'>The Header Shows a unique Jurmala Sunset May 2009. All photographs copyright of Andis Kaulins.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067107.post-116223519311926998</id><published>2006-10-30T19:58:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T13:49:00.065+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Halloween'/><title type='text'>Happy Halloween 2006 : The Pumpkin Cat for Cat Fans Everywhere</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Happy Halloween 2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Our Pumpkin Cat for Cat Fans Everywhere&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1086/200/1600/happyhalloweenpumpkincat2006.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1086/200/400/happyhalloweenpumpkincat2006.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2006.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;This is our pumpkin cat, created this year for cat lovers everywhere.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7067107-116223519311926998?l=akphotoblog.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/feeds/116223519311926998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7067107&amp;postID=116223519311926998' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/116223519311926998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/116223519311926998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/happy-halloween-2006-pumpkin-cat-for.html' title='Happy Halloween 2006 : The Pumpkin Cat for Cat Fans Everywhere'/><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15621397371652553895'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067107.post-114312088916860336</id><published>2006-03-23T14:34:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T14:02:09.811+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Andis Kaulins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gert Meier'/><title type='text'>Andis Kaulins and Gert Meier</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/84/957/520/kaulinsmeier.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 204); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/84/957/480/kaulinsmeier.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our wives call this photo, "The Two Geniuses at Work" &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="absmiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7067107-114312088916860336?l=akphotoblog.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/feeds/114312088916860336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7067107&amp;postID=114312088916860336' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/114312088916860336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/114312088916860336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/our-wives-call-this-photo-two-geniuses.html' title='Andis Kaulins and Gert Meier'/><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15621397371652553895'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067107.post-114311972987989637</id><published>2006-03-23T14:15:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T13:06:43.109+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Andis Kaulins and Gert Meier</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/84/957/520/kaulinsmeier.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 204); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/84/957/480/kaulinsmeier.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;The same photo - a bit lighter.&lt;br&gt;Our wives call this photo, "The Two Geniuses at Work"&lt;br /&gt;Andis Kaulins left and Gert Meier of Cologne right&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="absmiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7067107-114311972987989637?l=akphotoblog.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/feeds/114311972987989637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7067107&amp;postID=114311972987989637' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/114311972987989637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/114311972987989637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/andis-kaulins-and-gert-meier.html' title='Andis Kaulins and Gert Meier'/><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15621397371652553895'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067107.post-114295412612660018</id><published>2006-03-21T16:15:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T14:01:41.143+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Book Cover Stars Stones and Scholars</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/84/957/520/starsstonesscholars.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:2px solid #0000CC; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/84/957/480/starsstonesscholars.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JPG of Book Cover Stars Stones and Scholars for Megaliths Blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7067107-114295412612660018?l=akphotoblog.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/feeds/114295412612660018/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7067107&amp;postID=114295412612660018' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/114295412612660018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/114295412612660018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/jpg-of-book-cover-stars-stones-and.html' title='Book Cover Stars Stones and Scholars'/><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15621397371652553895'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067107.post-114295300389545439</id><published>2006-03-21T15:56:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T14:02:52.761+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='megaliths'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Martha Walker'/><title type='text'>Martha Walker, Photography, at the Megaliths</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/84/957/520/marthaft.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:2px solid #0000CC; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/84/957/480/marthaft.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martha Walker - Photography of the Megaliths&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7067107-114295300389545439?l=akphotoblog.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/feeds/114295300389545439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7067107&amp;postID=114295300389545439' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/114295300389545439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/114295300389545439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/martha-walker-photography-of-megaliths.html' title='Martha Walker, Photography, at the Megaliths'/><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15621397371652553895'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067107.post-114291616147433272</id><published>2006-03-21T05:42:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T14:03:15.131+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Andis Kaulins'/><title type='text'>Andis Kaulins, Golf</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/84/957/520/kaulins.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:2px solid #0000CC; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/84/957/480/kaulins.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo of Andis Kaulins at the Golf Course in 2004.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7067107-114291616147433272?l=akphotoblog.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/feeds/114291616147433272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7067107&amp;postID=114291616147433272' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/114291616147433272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/114291616147433272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/photo-of-andis-kaulins-at-golf-course.html' title='Andis Kaulins, Golf'/><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15621397371652553895'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067107.post-111644735841609363</id><published>2005-05-18T22:15:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T13:52:17.731+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Andis Kaulins'/><title type='text'>BloggerBot, Hello and Picasa</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/84/957/640/kaulinstrier.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:2px solid #0000CC; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/84/957/400/kaulinstrier.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Andis Kaulins at the Amphitheater in Trier in 2004. Photograph Copyright 2004 by Cary G. Wilson.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://www.hello.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbh.gif' alt='Posted by Hello' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This was a successful test of the BloggerBot, Hello and Picasa programs.&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7067107-111644735841609363?l=akphotoblog.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/feeds/111644735841609363/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7067107&amp;postID=111644735841609363' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/111644735841609363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/111644735841609363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/2005/05/bloggerbot-hello-and-picasa.html' title='BloggerBot, Hello and Picasa'/><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15621397371652553895'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067107.post-108518292130049286</id><published>2004-05-22T01:30:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-05-18T22:32:05.056+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Photo File-Sharing - Hello from Picasa added to Blogger</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color="#ff6600"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Photo File-Sharing - Hello from Picasa added to Blogger&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogger has a new feature, the peer-to-peer file-sharing photo program &lt;a href="http://www.hello.com/"&gt;Hello&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1420846,00.asp"&gt;Picasa&lt;/a&gt;, which may turn out to be useful, we shall see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello gives the user the ability to post photos to a Blogger blog through MSN Messenger by making Blogger a personal "peer" for photo sharing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since we have several blogs, however, it looks as if Blogger always takes the top blog alphabetically as its Photo Blog, so we have created the "AK Photo Blog" which now appears at the top of our Blogger list of blogs. We are not sure that this will work, but we will try it and report on our success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE, May 18, 2005&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our above solution worked, but it was not necessary. Hello from Picasa has a Menu-Item "Blogger" which drops down a clickable list of our blogs, and so the appropriate blog can thus be selected as desired for the photograph to be uploaded.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7067107-108518292130049286?l=akphotoblog.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/feeds/108518292130049286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7067107&amp;postID=108518292130049286' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/108518292130049286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/108518292130049286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/2004/05/photo-file-sharing-hello-from-picasa.html' title='Photo File-Sharing - Hello from Picasa added to Blogger'/><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15621397371652553895'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067107.post-108516909781902204</id><published>2004-05-21T21:50:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-05-22T01:45:10.380+02:00</updated><title type='text'>AK Photo Blog</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color="#ff6600"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AK Photo Blog Launched&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AK Photo Blog Launched, 21 May 2004.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7067107-108516909781902204?l=akphotoblog.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/feeds/108516909781902204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7067107&amp;postID=108516909781902204' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/108516909781902204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7067107/posts/default/108516909781902204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akphotoblog.blogspot.com/2004/05/ak-photo-blog.html' title='AK Photo Blog'/><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15621397371652553895'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>