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This image would be great to use as decor for an aviation and space-themed party for a child.  It could be used on invitations, as part of the table settings or even blown up on a large scale and placed on a wall in the party room for all the guests too see.  It shows city lights from space and would be a beautiful photo to use for inspiration for the rest of the party.

Earth's City Lights [photo]. (2000) Retrieved October 14, 2011, from http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ve/1438/earth_lights.jpg



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I used Wikipedia to research Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and this is the information I found:

IRC was created in 1988 by Jarkko Oikarinen.  It was meant to replace a program called MUT- MultiUser Talk on a BBS called OuluBox in Finland.

IRC is used as a means of synchronous communication.  It's a text messaging/chat system.  It can be used by individuals or groups for chat or for data transfer or file sharing.

A channel is the basic means of communicating to a group of users in an established IRC session.  Users can join a channel and then all messages sent to the joined channels are relayed to all users.

Commands are entered by users and admins and allow them to control their posts and the server from their computers.  Commands can be entered by prefixing them with a "/."  Depending on the command, these may either be handled entirely by the client or passed directly to the server with possibly some modification.

I would not suggest that Southland Media use IRC for communications.  There are many other programs and services that offer chat and file transfer/data sharing along with many other services and are also easy to use and free. 

My Favorite Plant

Welcome to my gardening blog!

My favorite tree out of all the ones we have in our yard is the sissoo tree.  They are fast-growing, bushy and provide a lot of shade for our yard.  We've had three in our yard for the last four years and they've grown faster than any of the other trees in our yard.  I only wish that more of our trees were the same so we'd have a lot of shade and a cooler yard and house.