I have been doing a home study course on making internet videos ... so as a practice I have made a simple slideshow/voice over video about Australian Lorikeet Species:

I had a great year breeding varied lorikeets so I thought I'd test out Vimeo for a video host.

Young Varied Lorikeets from Ray Smith on Vimeo.

With my new video camera in hand we visited Featherdale Wildlife Park.

A few weeks ago I read an interesting story over at telegraph.co.uk that said doing 2 google searches produced the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle.

The failing world economy has had enormous negative effects on  many businesses and individuals.  Even through this chaos it's still a great time to be running a business that provides real value to real people solving real problems.  

If you can provide a product or service that helps people solve real problems in an efficient, cost effective manner you will still be very successful. Like many of the great business people have said with great change comes great opportunity.

So after many years of reading blogs and always wanting to start one ... here it is.

So for my first entry I'd like to comment on the re-design of RaymondSmith.com.  It is a Drupal site and uses the Blue Bars theme.

I'd like to keep the site as simple as possible so maintenance and upgrades are simple.