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The Results of a Newborn…
Jul 30th
Well, it’s not really the results, more of a by-product of having a new-born in the house. here’s what has transpired since the arrival of Tiiu (and slightly before her arrival!).
- rawl.ca – obviously you’re following this website. But since Blogger decided not to support the FTP i was lost to get on something. I was playing with the WordPress format, but I couldn’t get the MySQL databases right…after some emailing, fiddling and reading, I got them running and VOILA! the new and improved Rawl.ca.
- Basic Flash videos – I did some basic flash vids, as I was wondering how to do some simple animation. I found that there is a ‘anime’ program that people use to make anime, so I’m on the prowl for that piece of software
- Vlogs – yeah, new camera, time to spare, and a yearning to get rawl.ca cannibalized. From text to speech, that’s a different direction for Rawlio’s world.
- Video-editing – I’m playing with iMovie currently, but i got hold of a copy of Final Cut Express. I wanted to play with Final Cut Pro, but my little macbook is not really wired for that kinda output.
- Sequencing – this was Post-Tiiu. I got some songs done with Garageband. I’ve been trying to find a working copy of CuBase, but for some reason, It doesn’t want to work on this machine….some more playing and research, I’ll get it done. My Goal is to try to make a rap/hip-hop song before the summer’s out.
- Macbook Streaming to PS3/xBox360 - I’ve played with some audio/video streaming with this. I wanted to get a ‘media server’ running in the house, but it requires the mac to be on….hmm..how do I get around that?
- Mad-torrents – I’ve been torrenting more than ever. I know that everyone, and their Chinese cousins have been burning movies to disc, but I wanted to try to see if i could do that. Again, I’m torn to do it. Not for the moral issue, but more of the ‘collector’ issue. People seem to do these mad-torrent burns of movies…watch them, then they sit in a spindle of movies for a long time. Linda and I watch streamed shows…and I think we’ll continue to do that.
- Music Video? Home Reno Video? Me hanging out video? – I’ve got some ideas for some videos…why videos? Storage space. On Youtube, you can upload your vids, and they store them. Me? I’m using up my limited Web-space with some pictures..which I have figure out where I can put them..or just keep rotating them. i’m not sure.
So, what’s next? I was toying with a Rawlio – FAQ, but that’ll be just for my entertainment. Who knows? ideas and suggestions are welcome.
Oh, I should do a contact page, shouldn’t I?
Lazy Saturdays…
Jul 17th
So, I’m sitting around, not really doing anything. Baby’s sleeping and I did my ‘husbandly’ and ‘fatherly’ duties for now.
So, playing around with WordPress, I’m trying to figure out a way to import or convert my old archives into something more meaningful/nicer to look at.
I think I’m getting the hang of this program….as I’ve been looking at other ways to make it look neat. But I have to be careful, as too much stuff may be bad.
Alas, we’ll see.
What else: Some interesting thoughts? ok…
INTERESTING THOUGHTS
Why do I nice things for strangers? Is it for my satisfaction, or for credit? For example: I was at a store yesterday and the woman in front of me left her credit card in the machine. It was one of the fancy credit card chip ones, so she didn’t take it out of the machine. When I went to pay with my credit card, the cashier noticed that it was still there, and looked outside for the woman. I couldn’t really do anything, so I paid for my purchase and went to my car.
When I got to my car, I thought about it: I should take one drive around the parking lot to see if the woman was still there. Lo and behold…she was at her car. I got out and informed her that she left her credit card at the cashier.
Her comment? “Well, I’ll go get it….” and she stormed off.
Did I do it to get a ‘thank-you, that was very kind of you’? nope. I actually did it because I would hate to be that person did the same thing, and I would hope that someone would be so kind in return.
Does the world work that way? Most likely not.
Bleh.