I love 'critical updates' Tuesdays. The new Google Maps looks awesome (and so much easier than Mapquest!). I found how you can actually use it to get coordinates of a point, by centering and zooming in on your point like normal (or by using the cool keyboard shortcuts), then clicking the "Email" link, which will then generate a URL which contains the latitude and longitude of your point, like this:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.084229%2C-79.070592&spn=0.051147%2C0.086139

where the data in between the "ll=" and the "%2C" is the latitude (positive numbers are North), and the bit between the "%2C" and the "&spn=" is the longitude (negative numbers are West), in degree decimal format. You can, then, convert these numbers to minute decimal format at jeeep.com for easy usage whilst geocaching! (Too bad it's limited to North America, though.)

Ever wonder what the surname Herrera means? Here's the answer:

Last Name: Herrera
Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from villages so called in the provinces of Seville and Badajoz, from a word meaning ‘iron smithy’, ‘blacksmith’s forge’ (a derivative of hierro ‘iron’, Latin ferrum).

French: habitational name from the Gascon form of Ferrière, a place in Pyrénées-Atlantique. The place name is derived from Latina ferraria ‘iron-mine’, ‘iron-forge’.

Here's my recent watercolor Mondrian attempt:



Do you like it? Becky's little watercolor set didn't have black, so I had to mix colors to simulate black, as evidenced by the hints of purple, brown, and blue.