Plaxo sold out.

The people in Twitter are baling out of Plaxo now that Comcast is buying it.

Leo Laporte provided this link to cancel your Plaxo account: http://tinyurl.com/6rw2ch 

It is a tinyurl.com redirect so that you can tell if it’s a spoof address.  Click on the link, delete all of your data first and then cancel the account, if you are so inclined.

All I know is, if Leo Laporte says something is uncool, drop the knitting and run for the exit.

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It’s good to see that I can post to a blog while I am exploring the new features in Google Document.  For the past few hours I have been wrapped up in reading the intelligent Kevin Kelly’s writing and photography on kk.org. Just the fact that he has kk.org is coup enough for a geek.

There are great possibilities using this method for creating websites on the fly when not attached to my own laptop and its blog creating programs.

Publishing to Belltower News using Google Docs.

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All & Everything Week

There have been few, okay, no posts to any of the Grazing sites for the paste week.  A combination of personal cycle of life to those around and near to us combined with a general ennui that comes with every Spring.  We hope to get up to speed in the coming week but will not guarantee it.

LiveJournal Tags: ennui

Social Networking 1921 Style

At this page in the Shorpy Historical Photos website, is a photo of a few hundred people standing  on 111 Street in the July 2, 1921 heat in Washington, D.C. They are reported to be listening to a radio broadcast of the Dempsey- Carpentier Fight.

To fully appreciate the wonder of this occasion, the photograph itself and Shorpy’s amazing website,  read the comments where a commentator shares an image of an old post card that displays the Harvey‘s Restaurant shown on the far corner in the photograph.

Next you need to see it full image.  There are a dozen or so social interactions, as well as example of mass behavior common for the time and place.  The most obvious is the proliferation of straw “boater” hats.  These were worn on hot summer days.  They shielded the head and face from the beating sun and its harmful rays.  The men are all wearing suits, the woman can be wisely found under umbrellas.

For the car buffs amongst you, look at the Ford Model T’s The motor bus covered with a fringed cloth top. There is the Capitol Burlesque house next to Harvey’s, the barber shop in the lower left corner on the same block with the YMHA.

See what else you can find in the larger photo and then read the comments on the first page.  A stroll though history caught naked in the middle of a hot Summer day in D.C.

LiveJournal Tags: Shorpy

Second Try @ Animoto

The last vestiges of Winter remain on the Porch.

Yesterday was May Day.

I heard of no local Mayhem.

With all of the bombs going off all over the world, it may have taken some of the steam out of Labor’s ardor.

Happy May!!

First Animoto Try

Loaded too many pictures

Back in Blogger

It was a tad disconcerting not being able to go into Blogger to correct one letter in the entry regarding the author of the screenplay for The Blob.  My spell checker clandestinely changed Blob to Blog. 

I saw this as soon as I read the blog site Windows Live Writer pops up after loading the page.  I could’ve and eventually did change it from inside Live Writer, but habits have me going to the source when the error is made in an Editor.

This, of course was in the wee hours of the morning.  I gave up.  Then woke at three thirty, did what needed doing and then came up her, edited a few photos and made the blog-blob correction inside Live Writer.  Still no access to Blogger.

This morning, backed up by tea, toast and left over Devil’d Eggs, I took the time to read the help file.  It said, do this.  I did that.  No go. Then it said clear the cache and cookies.  I did that and BINGO, in.  

All is well, the weather is cool with a chance of rain.

Blogger Server Uncooperative.

The Blogger portal is not letting me in using the usual mumbo-jumbo.  This is an attempt to get around that using the Windows Live Writer.

The woman who wrote the script for The Blob died recently at the tender age of 94.  Her story is in the Obit pages of the NYT.  What I found interesting in the story was all the rest about her 50 films and appearances on Broadway were brushed over.  The fact that she didn’t receive the money owed to her in agreed royalties, along with those owed to Steve McQueen.  She brushed it off for the value of authors credits.

Imagine living a full ninety four years and having your obit go on about something for which you weren’t paid. Why bother?

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