It was a nasty day today. The weather was terrible. It was chilly. It was windy. It was rainy. It was awful. I hate this weather. There is promise of nicer weather by the end of the week. I hope it comes true.
Last summer when Apple introduced the iSight camera, I had to buy one. At that time I didn't know anyone to try it out with. I heard about iChatters.com and iChatfinder.com from all the Mac sites I browse, so I logged on and joined their free sites. The whole iSight thing was new then so there weren't many people on there. I video chatted with a few people at the time to figure out the camera and it was fun but I quickly lost interest. I eventually put the camera away and went back to using AOL for chatting. My profiles stayed on iChatters and iChatfinder. Then last week I got an IM from a guy in San Francisco saying he found me on iChatfinder.com. We chatted a bit and traded web sites. His blog is all about he and his partner raising their son together. It's a really cool site/blog. He's got some great iPhoto galleries and from time to time he posts iMovies on his site. I need to figure out how he does it. I have plenty of server space so I should create an iMovie and try to post it for others to see. That will have to be my next project. I should probably buy a digital video camera (hmm…justification for a major purchase?). Anyway, I enjoy checking out his site and watching his cool iMovies. I hope he doesn't mind that I linked to his site from my blog.
This evening I was on AOL and I got another IM from someone I didn't recognize. He said he found me on iChatters.com. He said he was in Santiago, Chile. I thought that was wild. He said he enjoys reading my blog. I'm fully aware of how vast the internet is and it's abilities but I still find it wild that I can talk (type that is) live with someone who is so far away. Chatting with him for awhile, I find out (which I guess I already knew) that we are in the same time zone but the weather is the opposite. I know the southern hemisphere is going through the opposite changes that we are going through but you don't think about it when you are chatting with someone who is telling you they are having the same sinus problems that you are having but they are going from Fall to Winter. Pretty wild.
P.S. No one made any guesses about my camera phone pictures from yesterday. 🙁 So no one wins the prize.
I see things on different blogs and then forget where I saw them but remember the idea. I saw on a blog recently about using Google to do an image search. You type in your name and the name of a friend or boyfriend and see what comes up. Then you click on images and see what images come up with your search. I did this today for myself and my very good friend Shawn. An amazing amount of information came up as well as 729 images. And the search was returned in just 2.9 seconds. Google is amazing! I clicked through several pages of the images and grabbed a few. It’s interesting the images that appear when you do such a search. Below are just a few of the images. I know. You’re probably thinking that I have way too much time on my hands to be wasting it on things like this. But when you have all your work done and procrastinating on doing other things, Google is a good way to waste your time. By the way, you must realize that I don’t know any of the people in these pictures. None of them are actually of me and/or Shawn. Just random pictures that were generated from the Google search. Fun none the less.
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