Brrrr. I hate winter!

I am glad the roads are clear today.  I’m getting ready to drive out to Greenbrier and meet friends for lunch at Cracker Barrel.

Embedding Ustream video on Word Press.

I was trying to embed a link to a video I did on Ustream.  I can’t get it to work on WordPress.  Has anyone else had this issue and they solved it?  I’m not talking about a stand alone WordPress.org blog but this one hosted on wordpress.com.

I can have Ustream save a copy of my video to YouTube and embed that no problem.  What happened is the video got cut into two segments because of AT&T’s 3G signal into the restaurant I was in.  The second video, which is what I want to embed, didn’t get sent to YouTube.

So….  Help

Thanks in advance!

Ustream video of 2010 Snow Storm in Portsmouth, VA

 

I went out Saturday to see how Portsmouth was doing in the snow storm so I thought I would ustream my travel.  Ended up having a few people follow me live.  For those that laugh we only get snow like this every 10 to 20 years so… we are not used to this.  In fact, you can keep this crap!  I want warm beach weather!!!

If you have an iPhone you can use Ustream to send live video streams out to the world.  What’s nice is I am using a 3G phone. That’s right. If you have a 3G model you can do this. You do not have to wait for 3GS to do streaming video.

Agh! It’s coming…

Wednesday the big 4-0 is going to pay me a visit…

It doesn’t seem like it’s going to be like 30. That year was really tough. All the years since doesn’t compare.

I think the only thing about 40 is what I read on a website several months ago. A co-workers birthday was coming and I wanted to find somethings online. One of the sites I went to said 40… The beginning of middle age. WTH???

This birthday seems different in terms of it’s not age so much like 30 but more where I am at this point in life. It seems I am trying to assess where I have come from, where I am at now, and where I want to go. Which I guess is natural.

There are changes I need to make in life. I’ve been hesitant to make them for fear of failure or just fear of the unknown. What I have learned in other things is fear most of the time is unwarranted.

Fear should be a motivator to do something. It shouldn’t be a shackle holding you from doing what you need to do. Most of the time if you are worried about what others think you will never get to the next level. Most of the time what you think others think isn’t true anyway.

So Wednesday, after work, I’m going to pour me a glass of Crown, turn on Buffett’s “A Pirate Looks At 40″, and make decisions on where I go from here.

I owe it to myself and to friends in my life that had their lives cut too short.

Ok. It’s almost back together…

I have been working this evening on getting programs loaded back onto the new hard drive that I have installed into my computer.

The hard drive that came with my system appears to be failing.  I was getting alert message  all weekend.   I contacted Dell and after running the diagnostic software they determined yes the drive was bad and sent a new one overnight.

They put an image of my operating system and stuff that came with the computer and I’m installing what I put on after I got it.  Of course, Dell forgot a few things…  I have downloaded from their support site two things but I believe they are going to have to send me a Roxio disc because I don’t have one with what they sent last year.  Overall their customer service has been great and I have no complaints in that area with this situation.

The fun part is now going to be getting my iPhone backup into the new system so that I won’t lose everything.  I have downloaded a program that is suppose to make this transition easier.  I will find out tomorrow evening when I sit down to get this done.

Wish me luck!