Other than the usual lazy Sunday routine, including fooling around with my two lovely sons, I managed to find the time and energy to organize and upload some long overdue photos. Click the following picture to see all 50 pictures.
Even tool some time to listen and read this little poem Snow by George Bilgere. Enjoy every word of it.
Also, read the little biography of Edwin Hubble with gusto.
Heard and read the poem Tuning by Christine Rhein.
Enjoy all those audible references and images. Like the way it depicts sounds, the “quadrupling the pressure in their lungs” of the nightingales of London and Berlin, and the Voyager’s recordings of Brandenburg concertos and Johny B. Goode.
Another interesting one, is titled Purring by Coleman Barks
The opening of the poem is rather scientific, and I especially like “poetry is human purr", wonderfully said.
Previously, I use Internet Explorer 7 on Windows PC, and Firefox on Macintosh. A couple of months ago, I switched to Google Chrome on Windows, and I noticed that there is a spell-checker for html forms for Chrome, and it is activated by default.
Then, I started to notice that Firefox also has its built-in spell checker. However, Internet Explorer 7 does not have a built-in spell checker, but there are third-party spell checker for IE7. Since now I almost use Chrome exclusively on Windows PC, and Firefox on Macintosh, so IE7’s lack of spell checkers becomes irrelevant.
Information about Firefox spell checker
Information about Google Chrome spell checker
For Internet Explorer, there is a third-party product called ieSpell. Although now I seldom use IE7, but it is good to know there are such product for IE.
As more and more applications are moved to the cloud, browsers are increasing important for general usage. Spell checkers, traditionally associated with stand-alone word processors and operating systems, are now more closely associated with browsers. It is a harbinger of the age ofcloud computing.
I used iMovie on my Mac to edit miniDV videos and output the video projects to iDVD for burning DVD discs. However, ever since I purchased a more powerful PC, I switched my production system to the more powerful Windows PC, which has far more RAM and a faster CPU. So, now, instead of working on my claustrophobic 12-inch PowerBook G4 laptop, I work on my roomy 24-inch monitor of my Windows desktop to edit my video projects.
I chose the Adobe Premiere Elements as my video editing tool. I am a huge Adobe fan, spent endless hours reading the books about Photoshop,Premiere, DreamWeaver, and playing with those wonderful tools.
Usually, one can burn a DVD directly from Adobe Premiere Elements. But, to burn into a folder is more advantageous. For details, check the following article:
How to burn Adobe Premiere Elements projects to a folder (then to DVD)?
I listen to the Tech Podcast of Clark Boyd, whose blog mentioned a WWI veteran’s home letter published as a blog.
The WWI veteran’s letter as a blog
Also, a related retro blog is that of George Orwell’s diary posted as a blog
So much for the blog, here there is an Wired article denouncing the value of personal blog:
There are many funny and witty comments under this article. For me, a personal blog is never about popularity or ratings. I am perfectly comfortable of the fact that only my immediate family read my blog. For me, blogging is just way to dump my overly clogged brain, to make room in my brain for new stuff. I am not a good writer, so I am not bothered by any ambition or expectations.
Something Mr. David Pogue described very well in his recent two blog entries on why we video tape our lives:
Readers’ react to the previous entry
There are many reasons why we document our lives, and sometimes we don’t know the reason why we write diaries and make video tapes ourselves.
I am a little confused when I am writing this, funny, isn’t it?
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