Real quick pointer for you today. Travel writer Donna Hull has a really terrific blog called My Itchy Travel Feet. The exotic images are truly the stuff dreams are made of. The writing is clear, readable, professional quality and engaging. The site is a good place to take a cup of coffe or a latte and just sink in for a moment or two every day.

The header photograph is Donna’s (I’m assuming here…) bare foot against a beautiful image of Australia. I just want to get into that image and chat with her on the ship’s deck.

I feel like I’m going along with her as she explores the world. It’s almost like a meditation, and not only that, I learn a lot, for instance, a current post talks about a cruise gone awry and what passengers might do about it.

Donna says in her header that her target audience is baby boomers. I like that - the fact that she sees the world from my generation’s perspective - and lord, she’s been everywhere, I guess. But no matter your age, you’ll get good travel info, interesting perspectives and nice interludes here. Go take a look and tell me what you think of the site. Want to go traveling together?

Read Maryan at Chicago Examiner Home Technology

The toddler in my house can’t resist typing on keyboards. Cuz we all do a lot of keyboarding. I found a site fwhere he can hit any small letter key and cause a terrific response.

Even if you’re toddlerless - take look at ZeFrank’s site. The man is an odd genius. You’ll see a small orange square in the middle of the page. Click in the square, and hit any letter of the alphabet - lower case. Each one produces a character and a sound that will repeat the more often you hit the key.

When you’ve had enough of that, hack the url down to its root or use this link to visit ZeFrank’s main page. He has a list of dozens of quirky little programs. Try animal sound in the first column.

God I love this guy’s mind.

Here’s a quickie for today - as the Digital Grandparent at Demystifying Digital, I gathered a bunch of my favorites for kids and posted them to my blog over there. Go take a look at fun places to visit on the Web with kids - free and pretty safe, too.