Digital Day

Well, today I decided to goof around with "as many different things that I'm not good at" as I possibly could, with varying degrees of success.

I started out trying to download a video from my actor son in NY. He sent it to me via email last night. No success with it last night. Said I needed Quicktime. I had Quicktime. Some compressor thingey wasn't working. Emailed it to my other account and forwarded it back to my first account but on our desktop computer instead of laptop. Today I opened it after it told me that my Quicktime settings there were playing with some other applications and did I want them to do what I wanted them to do with my son's video clip.(Not in so many words but you get the idea.) I was finally able to see the clip which I am not allowed to show you because someone may steal their idea for a sitcom (delusions of grandeur?). Anyway, I opened, I saw, it was cool, and now I'm waiting for an 8MB one to open in my email.

So THEN I decided to put a counter on my blog--one for my bday and one for Christmas. They appeared on my blog page but didn't work, so I removed them. Will try that again someday. It's easier on Facebook, they just do those things for you.

Then I decided to try taking a short movie of my dog using my camera, which I've never done before--well once I did accidentally take a movie of my foot but I forgot how to do that. So of course my dog was not cooperative--he thought I should be taking a still shot so he stood still mostly. Then it took me some time to figure out how to replay it on my camera. Then I had to download (or upload) it into my computer which took awhile. Then I tried to upload it onto this blog page, which was my ultimate goal. Didn't work. My next trick was to upload it to my Ning 23 Things on a Stick web page, which worked. So I embeded it and transferred it to this blog--trying to do it a couple of different ways, and I finally was successful, more's the pity. Now two groups of viewers have to suffer through watching this poor little film.