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As I indicated I was going to do, I didn't turn on my computer at all on Saturday the 24th, and by so doing I observed Shutdown Day 2007. In general, I'd have to say that the day was very pleasant, quite productive and surprisingly easy to do. Some of you who commented on my interest in this day didn't see what the point was. For me, it was to see what kind of reaction I had to the self-imposed restriction not to use of my computer for one day. After awaking at 5:07 AM and going strong until about 11:30 PM, I can say that the event impressed me enough that I may just make it a regular monthly practice.

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My blog has always been just a place for me to test whether I could put things on the Internet and a way for me to comment on things I find interesting as I surf and experiment with them. Although I've been blogging now for about 5 years, I've never added advertising to this blog to make money from it because I didn't anticipate having much of a readership. However, I've been pleasantly surprised to have gained more readers than I would have ever thought possible. And those readers are gradually becoming accustomed to commenting here occasionally. For that, I'm grateful.

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Details of this online experiment can be found at this site. It's simple actually. The challenge is to go for one day without turning on your computer, and it's planned for March 24th. A blogger who calls herself Moonair suggest 7 ways to prepare for it in this post which is pretty funny.

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I described the problem I experienced in finding a place to upload a large AVI file in this post the other day. This morning I've discovered another alternative.

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As you can see, you can blog directly from Clipmarks. You can also email from there. So when you discover something of interest that you want to share with others, you can clip the relevant sections of it and then either save it to the Clipmarks site, email it to friends, or post it to your blog. The best way to understand it is to watch the demo video of how it works.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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On Monday, I spent a bit of time helping a couple of friends with their computer issues.

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