Passing along a good thing

Every so often I come across Internet sites that are worth their weight in gold (can you weigh cyberspace?) I feel I'm doing my duty as a pleased customer to pass along these great sites:

http://www.mapmyrun.com/ My neighbor and running buddy introduced me to this site a few months ago. It's a global mapping program, but what makes it superior to google is that I can map out my running route turn by turn and curve by curve and not just have to tell the computer "I want to get from A to B." Also, if you turn it to the satellite mode, it will map trails that you run on too! What a feature! It will also measure the altitude changes and graph it for you, so you know how hard the hills really were.

You can buy a subscription (or maybe it's free, I don't know) and it'll save your courses or just use it case by case, which is what I do. I love it!

http://www.epassportphoto.com/ As par for the course, I had a horrible experience at Wal-Mart trying to get passport photos taken. So in my frustration, I came home to see if there was a service to which I could upload a photo (this is 2009, for crying out loud. I shouldn't have to stand in front of a white screen and pay $8 for someone to take a horrible digital photo that wouldn't be accepted by the State Department. For the love, people). I found epassportphoto.com and have had so much fun creating my own passport photos. Now all I have to do is print it on photo paper (or take it to a copy center and pay $.45 to have them print it since my ink's too low). That's a savings of $7.55 that I can go to a movie with, or out to dinner, or tuck it away for a rainy day. AND I will have spent ZERO time at Wal-mart. Priceless!

Won't my handsome honey look great on his passport for our cruise to Belize?