I just added a Who’s Online feature on the Blog. Features a visitor map with location pins using GeoLiteCity data. Had enabled a mouse hover over the pins but it messed up using Firefox so for now I had to disable that function.

Update: Contacted the author of this plugin Mike Challis about the Firefox problem, he got back to me within minutes and gave me a fix, the mouse hover in Firefox works perfectly. What was wrong was my CSS codes for the dates, I had converted a Mambo template I made to work with WP. Thanks again Mike, I recommend anyone with WP to use Mikes plugin link here: Visitor Maps and Who’s Online located in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. Mikes website is located here: 642weather.com this page has his PHP scripts.

Made a donation to Mike for the above help, have since had problems with the app updating the total users online, daily, monthly and yearly, I had changed some code so reinstalled everything to the defaults but it still will not update. Emailed Mike but no response, I guess you have to donate again for any support. I removed that code and only show the map, which seems to stay current.

Why in the world are oil platforms burning off all that Natural Gas. We need more energy and here they are wasting our Natural Gas, make them capture the gas and add it to our inventories for free, they are just burning it now. BP has already quoted that they have flared “22 million standard cubic feet of natural gas was flared” excuse me but if you can figure out how to burn it you can figure out how to capture it.
If you figure there are 3800 to 4000 oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico alone and BP has burned off 22 million cubic feet of natural gas up to June 5 2010 at the Horizon well, how much of our Natural Gas is burned off in one year by all these Oil Companies/Energy Companies – Oil Platforms. If BP burned up 22 million cubic feet in a month x 12 = 264,000,000 cubic feet of gas in 1 year x 4000 = 1,056,000,000,000 cubic feet of gas wasted in one year. Corporate waste, it never ends!
The BP quote comes from their website on the camera feeds of the spill, here is the link:
BP Website camera feed
Quote:Subsea operational update:
• On June 5, a total of 10,500 barrels of oil was collected and 22 million standard cubic feet of natural gas was flared.
• Optimization continues and improvement in oil collection is expected over the next few days.
Unreal!

This a Quote from Wikipedia about Natural Gas flaring:
Quote:

Flaring and venting of natural gas from oil & gas wells is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Its contribution to greenhouse gases has declined by three-quarters in absolute terms since a peak in the 1970s of approximately 110 million metric tons/year and now accounts for 0.5% of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.[4] The World Bank estimates that over 150 billion cubic metres of natural gas are flared or vented annually, an amount worth approximately 30.6 billion dollars, equivalent to 25 percent of the United States’ gas consumption or 30 percent of the European Union’s gas consumption per year.[5] This flaring is highly concentrated: 10 countries account for 75% of emissions, and twenty for 90%. The largest flaring operations occur in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The leading contributors to gas flaring are (in declining order): Nigeria, Russia, Iran, Algeria, Mexico, Venezuela, Indonesia, and the United States.[6] In spite of a ruling by the Federal High Court of Nigeria (that forbade flaring) in 2005, 43% of the gas retrieval was still being flared in 2006. It will be prohibited by law as of 2008.

Here is the link to the Wikipedia article: Gas flare

Louisiana and other affected states should try turning this oil spill into a positive. I know that sounds crazy, but I am sure there are a lot of people who care about what is going on in the gulf coast states and would like to see for themselves the devastation. Car accident on the freeway what do people do, slow down and look. So use the disaster to bring tourist to see what is happening. The fishing boats could take tourist out to see the devastation up close. They could have bus tours to affected beaches and wildlife areas, not to be lib, but you could create new food dishes like The Tar Ball Sandwich, Dispersant Soup the BP Gumbo ( without all the sea food ), BP Jambalaya ( again without the sea food ). Set up games with BP Executive life size figures as Dart Boards or throw Tar Balls at them. Setup up an Oil Barrel in a restaurant with chocolate syrup pouring out the bottom. Make a desert that looks like Oil floating on it or a soup with a Oil Shine, Top Hat something. Not trying to make light of the situation but it is a reality, try turning it into a positive marketing tool, people are curious by nature and care about our ocean front states and I am sure would love to experience this up close, what do you have to lose. Make BP pay for all the Advertising and Marketing, be creative, be positive and use this to keep the state thriving. Just my two cents!