Welcome
While I’m still not convinced I have the discipline [or enough time] to be a good blogger, I am running out of excuses about why I don’t have a blog. I actually went so far as to create one behind the corporate firewall but I didn’t want to maintain multiple blogs and that site has been mothballed. Also, I’ve been sending kid pix now for 5 or 6 years and I’ve probably killed some inboxes along the way (sorry). This site is intended to provide a less intrusive way of delivering content about my favorite subjects as well as silence the folks who’ve been hounding me about not having a blog.
I was hoping to make this a quick transition from distributing pix and video over e-mail to the web but there’s a compatibility issue between the version of the runtime I’m using on this site and the web site code, so the transition to doing everything online (as opposed to e-mails) will take a little longer than expected. I’m guessing late February at this point.
But there is an upside: with the previous delivery method (posting video on a web site), I was limited to 25MB low-resolution video clips which amounts to ~4 minutes per segment. Because this site has significantly more space, the clips can get a little longer and maybe a little fancier. As a test, I’ve added a higher-resolution video clip of pix and video from the past few days here. Thought I’d start the year with something upbeat so Tahiti 80 provides the soundtrack here.
I’ve also posted the Christmas video here and I will be posting more as time permits. If you click around, you’ll notice that not everything is working yet. I’m working on it but it’s going to take a little time (bear with me).
For those interested, you can use the syndication features to automatically get alerts when new pix and video get posted. If you’re not sure how to use this, please let me know and I’ll post a quick how-to navigation around the site.
We hope you all had a great New Years. Becky and I had a nice, quiet evening in front of a fire while kids slept.
Please let me know if you run into significant issues in getting pix/video.
One last thing, I’d like to send a special shout out to Penney Armstrong who helped me with a little hardware purchasing issue I had over the holidays. I appreciate her taking time out of her holiday to help me. Sorry I couldn’t talk longer on the cell but I was in the middle of returning a broken Santa gift at Toys-R-Us and the lady at the counter was not in a good mood. Will follow up with you when I get back into the office!
Enjoy!