One often needs photos for web sites, or other projects that require photos. Here are some free stock photo sites that have a wealth of subjects.

• Yotophoto. This site runs Drupal, an Open Source project I am involved in, and categorizes photos from other free stock photo sites. It uses tags.

Only on rare occasions do I write about my daughters. Today is one such rare case.Last time I wrote about Suhaila was several years ago. Ever since, she has progressed well in school. Yesterday she got a Recognition of Excellence in Junior Short Story for her high school. She attended a ceremony honoring all students from the Region of Waterloo.Today, we got a letter from school that she will be honoured to receive the Most Valuable Pupil (MVP) award for Spanish. The letter says :  

Yotophoto, a Drupal site for free stock photo site, recently upgraded to 4.7.Like many users, they say they were shocked of rewrites of major portions. This is something that regularly comes up on the Drupal development mailing list, and Dries wrote about recently as well.

Yotophoto is a free stock photo web site that I discovered by accident via this Digg article. It happens to run Drupal.They seem to have a customized gallery. For example, look the URL for fish: it says /images/fish/1/ (note the trailing slash). Like many sites, they happen to use my Adsense module (their revenue source it seems) and my feedback module (the very first Drupal module I wrote).

Here is really cool web site: Wikimapia.

This is a fusion of Google Maps with the concept of a Wiki where anyone can add/edit information on a site (similar to Wikipedia).

Last week, I wrote about the supposed May 25 Atlantic ocean tsunami, which received a lot of views.

I got this by email today from a Yahoo Australia email address, and IP address confirms it is from Sydney NSW. Of course in Australia, it is already May 26:

From: John Smith <zzzzz>Date: May 25, 2006 8:03 PMSubject: SunamiTo: me25th May has come and gone. I don't remember any Mega sunami, you bunchof dumb c****. Try investing some of you energy in something realistic,instead of running around taling s*** all day. You are a the biggestbunch of f*** wits ive ever seen.

This is of course a response to the article I wrote titled: Pseudoscience: Mega Tsunami on May 25, 2006 in which I opposed this pseudoscience drivel.

It is official: Drupal has 14 Summer of Code projects for 2006.

This is amazing, since Drupal came out #8 in the list, ahead of other open source projects, such as Joomla, Gentoo, Gaim, Mozilla, Eclipse, GNU and Debian.

This also means that Google will be investing $70,000 in Drupal.

Last year, I co-mentored three students, and got a Summer of Code 2005 T-Shirt. Two of last year's students that I co-mentored (The Amazing Angela and Fabulous Fabiano) are mentors in their own right this year!

The Weather Network had some really freak weather news yesterday (May 21, 2006). In Dundalk, Ontario, about an hour north of Kitchener-Waterloo (see map), considerable amounts of wet snow fell, and some people even had to scrape it off the car's windshield like it is January, not late May.

Robert Douglass, a fellow Drupaller, writes about a presentation he gave to a German group. What caught my eyes is this part (emphasis is mine):

I was happy with the presentation, despite the fact that two of my examples didn't work right (why do things always break when you're showing them to others?)