A marvelous toy(s)
August 26th, 2007Reading the Sunday American Statesman, browsing the Target advertising circular, Caroline spotted “119.99 SALE | AIPTEK MPVR+ DIGITAL CAMCORDER with 2.4” display. Plays music and makes MPEG-5 (sic) movies.”
Windows 98 virtual machine excursion anomalies
August 24th, 2007What a long, strange trip it's been
August 24th, 2007Well, maybe not that long, just 7+ weeks. So I shouldn’t be thinking of Jerry Garcia and Truckin’, even if the Library of Congress deems the song to be a national treasure.
This trip started July 2, thinking that I should (re-)investingate blogging software.
From VHS to DVD & YouTube
August 22nd, 2007One of the reasons I bought my Sony VAIO with Windows XP Media Center 2004 was to capture video off of old VHS tapes for transfer to DVD and storage in Internet friendly file formats. Though I’d dabbled enough to capture a little video from a tape, I didn’t pursue any further.
Starting a "real" blog!?
August 21st, 2007Like some other popular words on the Internet, there is much disagreement about the meaning of “blog”.
An influential early book, Essential Blogging, begins “Here’s a dry definition of a blog: A blog is a web page that contains brief, discrete hunks of information called posts. These posts are arranged in reverse-chronological order (the most recent posts come first). Each post is uniquely identified by an anchor tag, and it is marked with a permanent link that can be referred to by others who wish to link to it.”
By that definition, the “tidbits” that I write are a blog. However, I’ve not thought of them as blog, for several reasons.