IF YOU WANT TO SEE PHOTOS OF MY TRAVELS...

In case you are interested, I have put 12 photo albums up on Picasa (from Google). You look at pictures from France, Mexico, Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks, Sedona Arizona and the Grand Canyon, and South Africa. More of our trips will be put up as I get time to organize them.
There are also family events documented: Leiseth reunion in Arnegard, ND; Steve's mom's 80th birthday; friends and family in Alexandria, Louisiana--my dad's hometown; the establishment of the Siess Professorship in Civil Engineering.
And there are photos from the Cleveland Illini Club and the inside of our new house in Champaign.
You'll have to have a Google account to see them.

URLs:
photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/jsiess1
to get a Google account: http://gmail.com

GLOBAL SCIENCE GATEWAY

WorldWideScience.org “is a global science gateway—accelerating discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases.” It is a project of the US Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Department of Energy. The 18 databases on the system now represent 11 countries: African Journal Online (South Africa), Article@INIST (France), Australian Antarctic Data Centre, CISTI (Canada), CSIR Research Space (South Africa), Defence Research and Development (Canada), DEFF Global E-Prints and Research Database (Denmark), Electronic Table of Contents (UK), J-EAST, J-STAGE, J-STORE (Japan), NARCIS (Netherlands), Science.org (USA), Scientific Electronic Library Online (Brazil), Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961, UK PubMed Central, and Vascoda (Germany).

URL: http://worldwidescience.org

SEARCH ENGINE FOR LAW FIRM NEWSLETTERS

Linex Legal is a new search engine that allows you to search the newsletters put out by "over 1,000 leading law firms and government organisations" in in ten countries: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK, and the USA. Specialty areas include: product liability, international arbitration and mediation, employment, health and safety, pensions, property, planning and construction, and European Competition law.

This looks to be a very useful and unique tool--and it is free.

URL: http://www.linexlegal.com