Yesterday my friend Jerry Pounds called me to ask if I knew of a florist close to the hospital where our mutual friend Tucker was hospitalized so that he could order some flowers for him. I said, «No, I don't, but what I'd do is go to Google Local and look one up.»
This morning I visited with my friend Tucker Childers at the hospital where he had to go this past Thursday because he had pneumonia. While there, I shot a video message from him to share with some of his concerned friends online. Using my Canon Powershot S2 IS, I shot 57 seconds in an AVI format that turned out to be 115 MB in size. Most of the free hosting or sharing services online such as Mediafire, where I have an account, everybody's favorite, YouTube, and Netscape impose a 100 MB upload limit. So my video was just above their limit, and I had two choices of how to proceed.
This post will probably be temporary because I am making it only to test whether I can activate the lightbox component of this template. If successful, clicking on the graphic below should use the lightbox javascript to display an enlarged version of the image «above» the post with the web page still in the background.
Yesterday, I spent several hours helping my friend Tucker set up his new computer and get connected to the Internet. That gave me my first chance to have a hands-on experience with Vista, albeit with Vista Basic. I have, of course, seen some online video demos of it, but I hadn't been able to sit in front of a computer on which it was loaded before then. Since I'll be going back to Tucker's some time at the first of next week to help him get oriented to being online, I look forward to being able to explore it in more depth then.
The simple act of forming a question in order to ask it sometimes reveals the answer. And that is a meaning of Jesus' saying, «Ask, and Ye shall receive,» that I had never thought about before.
On Monday, I spent a bit of time helping a couple of friends with their computer issues.
I don't know what it is about us old farts, but the older I've gotten, the less sleep I seem to need. Again this morning I awoke at about 4:30 A.M., so I tossed and turned for a little while and then decided to give in and get up. I started the coffee, which was set to come on at 6, settled in with a cup of Joe and began surfing the 'net, as is my usual custom. I find that my mind is unusually active early in the morning. If I were a real writer, I suspect that this is the time when I'd do my best work because for some reason I find it very easy to get lost in thinking about a topic during these early morning hours.
Recently I blogged about the free genealogy program called Family Tree Builder that you can download from MyHeritage.com and how I had gotten involved with it because I wanted to see how the program worked and how easy or hard it was to enter information in it. Now I guess I should acknowledge that I am finding it hard to put aside.
Tonight I attended a gathering of a number of bloggers from here in Knoxville and the surrounding area at Calhoun's on Kingston Pike. Glenn Reynolds was kind enough to post links to the blogs of those in attendance. The affair was surprisingly well-attended as we overran the table set aside for the fifteen that the instigator, Rich Hailey, had told them to expect, so I'd guess there were at least 25 or more folks there. It was a very civil gathering, I thought, despite the fact that a group of that size represented almost every variation of political, social and cultural perspective imaginable. I'm pleased to have met them, and I've added each of their blogs to my bookmarks so that I can read them periodically and learn more about them and their respective points of view as time goes on.
The fear that on January 1, 2000, computers all over the world would stop working, because of the lack of programming foresight to allow for a change of the century in all the code written up to that point, was referred to as «the Y2K problem.» A disaster movie made a brief splash but as one reviewer said the movie really sucked and wasted a few minutes of our time and then we moved on.
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