I remember talking about this in one of my blog posts before, that most often one of tricks my 4yr daughter has learned to get me do anything viz., wake up, go to her toy room, go over to car, etc has become through my laptop computer. the Typical conversation:
V: Daddy, please look at at this me: okay, good (without even looking at her) V: daddy. lets go, it is going to be late for school me: okay, lets go. please wear your shoes V: i need your help me: ok, lets get to the car (daddy not even moved from the chair) V: (now getting irritated a bit) closes my laptop computer takes it along with her. daddy now follows wherever she goes with the laptop computer in hand.
last night, a similar instance happened when she was about to sleep and perhaps needed me or her mom to put her to bed. I didn’t nudge but doing something else in living room allowing my computer battery to charge.
She looks at the computer around and picks it up, and goes upstairs.
I followed her but I was a bit late by the time I had a cup of water in Kitchen on the way, and she didn’t have the computer in hand later. I came over to the bedroom to put her to sleep; checked with her several times for my computer. She would say, she would not give it and apparently she doesn’t know and laughs..
I kept asking “where is my computer?” “Where did you hide my computer?” I looked at my bedroom, bathroom, 2nd room, 3rd room, closets, drawers, etc but it wasn’t around. Where would she have kept it in that brief few mins.
Finally, I went to her closet and found my computer. While I had some fun with her on this game – however, I think I need to reduce being on computer so long every day…
I have volunteered for a Marrow Donor Registry Drive at work. It is a great sense of satisfaction to be a part of helping out. I heard that about 70 blood related diseases (leukemia, lymphoma, … ) can be cured with a Marrow Transplant.
personally, I have been looking for such a drive for almost over a year; had enquired several people about the drive events. Either I had the drive location but the timing and the location was not convenient or I wasn’t around for the local drives. It worked out earlier this year that I went and registered myself in one such donor event.
According to the National Cancer Institute, in 2008 more than 130,000 people in the U.S. were diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma (cancers of blood and bone marrow). About 53,000 patients died from these diseases last year: this means that someone is diagnosed with blood cancer every 5 minutes and someone dies from blood cancer every 10 minutes in the U.S. alone, including many children. 3 out of 4 patients will not find a donor in their family. They will depend on unrelated marrow donors for a match.
Genetic diversity: 90% of the patients are likely to find a match within their own racial or ethnic heritage. This creates a need for much stronger representation of all ethnic groups in the registry. Currently South Asians represent only 1.86 % of the registered donors on the registry. The match rate is only 1 in 20,000.
Readers here: I urge you, if you haven’t thought so yet, to please consider registering as a Marrow Donor. We do not know which patient might need your help and when. Not all donors’ marrow would match with the patient’s blood cells. Thousands of patients are waiting for a miracle, they are searching for a matching bone marrow donor. You can change the world one person at a time.
I was on a BillPay page on a banking web site today, provided name, address and other information and about to confirm –> Continue / Edit / Cancel
Now i changed my mind and thought of waiting since I didn’t have the account number to pay to, handy at that time. Decided to hit “Cancel”.
Cancel takes me to an alert with a question mark and two buttons Ok / Cancel – what is expected from the user? Ok or Cancel?
what does a OK supposed to do? what does a Cancel supposed to do?
does it mean my account is now somebody else’s if I hit Ok? or does it mean “Thank you for bill pay sign up, we give you $10/- as a token of thanks” –> hit cancel
several weeks ago, my wife had to travel and she announced it to our 4yr old daughter on Friday in view of preparing her. Travel was scheduled to Monday and return on Friday (about 4 days). our daughter was encouraging enough and took it sportive. She understood that she would have to stay with me and no mommy at home.
Funny thing was she is learning about week days, although she knows the days, the sequence is still a bit confusing to her. We were on our dining table over lunch and the conversation goes:
L: V- I am going out of town on Monday and you would have to stay with daddy V: she was already prepped the previous day, and she was ok. and said “ok” and the conversation went around about her plans for school, play around etc. without knowing the sequence, She asked what day is today? I: i said, “Saturday” V: when would it be Monday? is tomorrow Monday? L: yey! 2 more days, do you want to send me off today itself? V: oh! tomorrow is Sunday and then Monday? L: yes V: Why is it not Monday tomorrow? why is it not today? L: because it is Saturday V: no! i want it to be Monday toDDDay… My wife was like, both daddy and daughter are READY to send me off and have fun. I: LOL!!!!
it took a while to explain her and all the while she was still being prep’d for come Monday
Anyways, it is sometimes hard to answer kids and deal with kids. They can be very understanding at a moment and very aggressive the other moment.
October 2nd is considered as Gandhi Jayanthi – Birthday celebration of Mahathma Gandhi. I noticed Google.com showing MKG’s picture as part of Google’s image on its search home page.
i had recently mentioned about WLMM and I played around it for sometime. Oh! I also gave a presentation at my Toastmasters club with a demo on Windows Live Movie Maker. It is such a cool too that I love so much.
However, the publishing to YouTube feature has disappointed me so much. Though i have a youTube Account, I had never ever uploaded a single video to youTube. Now that i started playing around WLMM, I tried 2 to 3 video upload and miserably disappointed me with the speed it takes to upload the video. Agreed my internet speed could partly a culprit here though i get 1.5mbps, but keeping the product and the targeting to most people in the world, I assume most people do not have a super speed T1 line bandwidth on their home network. I still hear people with dial up connections, given the speed with Dial up or even DSL lines, it is still very slow publishing to youtube.
I noticed that it takes two step approach. one to create a .wmv temporary file on the local videos folder, and then upload it to youTube. Is it not double the time? or at least some portion of it?
I didn’t mean to really talk about youTube publishing first. There are other cooooool features I really liked. one other publishing mode – to web media or email publishing, that’s fantastic. My supposed to be larger wmv can take only couple of megs, that I can easily send to my family and friends over email. How cool is that. The tools I had used earlier, had created those movie files into larger size, but WLMM appears to compress much larger extent. and The quality to view on computer for those little eMail-able copies, are great too.
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