It looks like it must be time to write another entry. OK, that time has come and long since gone. But I liked writing here, so let's bring it back!
Another semester of college is over. That's four down, some more to go.
Depending on how my life goes in the next few months, that could turn
out to be quite a few...
After my dim and unpleasant entry, things seemed to lighten about me. Work in class was easy, and new friends came into my life. A fair went blew my way; but alas, the recent nights have seemed darker than those for which I formerly showed so much distaste.
Dark have been my thoughts of late. All about me seems to be falling into disarray. Some things have come to better times, others have fallen to their ends or worse. I find it difficult to think of else when seeking rest or at least momentary respite at during the early hours of the day.
Quite a while back, I had a Powershot SD 410. It was a good little camera -- my first that didn't completely suck. It was of course a point-and-shoot and limited me in ways that Photoshop just couldn't fix, despite the advice of professionals. Eventually, I conjured up enough money to buy a Kodak P880. This wasn't my first choice. It wasn't even my second -- it was closer to last. But it was a massive improvement. It looks like an SLR, and behaves like one if you rub it right.
I haven't written an entry for a while, now. I didn't lose interest, nor did I run out of time in the day to write them. I simply changed my focus -- I began making short videos in which I would tour a new web service. I would visit the page the first time I had ever visited it, sign up, and then try out new features. The whole thing was recorded from start to finish with no editing. That way viewers would know exactly what to expect should they try out that particular service.
But that didn't go as well as I had hoped. I had a few issues with audio quality. Apparently when my laptop is plugged in to the power outlet in here, my desktop's microphone picks up constant buzzes and squeaks. So I had to ditch a whole recording session because I somehow missed that in my tests. After that, I ran into the issue of space and bandwidth. Each recording is rather large and will take up a significant amount of bandwidth while being transmitted. I tried to find a decent third-party host so I could save myself a few bucks and keep my customers' performance unhindered. But that turned out to be a dead end, and I managed to find a better codec anyway.
I'm participating in a video contest to win a Dell XPS laptop and some wireless technology that didn't exist until recently. I can only win if I get the most views on my video. So here it is. And yeah, it's slightly cheesy.
Share it, watch it every day, show all your friends and family (in a way that increases the view count).
Update: I embedded it just to suck a few extra views off this page... Sorry! Hit play.
I have recently signed up for at least a dozen different web services. Some of these are social networking sites, and others are there to help with organization. Some do both.
I'm tired. I took a nap, earlier, but it didn't make much of a difference. And I feel obligated to stay up a bit longer since I have a lot of work to do.
Today started out harmless enough. It was just above freezing, and the wind had finally died down. Then I got a text message from my mother at around 7:00. "Got snow?"
