40 Days in the desert

Jesus in the desert - Day 1

I caught Andrew’s suggestions on the “40” illustrations by Simon Smith today.

I thought the music selection of Jap-Jap’s “Blue Shimmery Fall” was great, so I put a video together in Windows Movie Maker – yes that’s right Thomas, you can do video with Windows XP :-).

Anyways, I thought it made for a great story and backing track.

I’d like to try it with Third Day’s “King of Glory” as well – but that will have to come at a later time, as I only have it on my Mp3 player and not on my Lappy 486.

What do you think? Any other musical suggestions?

U2 on Conan

Late breaking news:
Conan will re-air his episode dedicated entirely to U2 tonight on the NBC tonight. The show was filmed back in October and featured several songs from the band as well as an interview and Bono and Edge helping with “In the Year 2000.”
Also, Bono’s trip to Africa is expected to be featured tomorrow night on the NBC Nightly News.

Point and Shoot Video


Just got a trail version of the Pure Digital Point and Shoot Camcorder. It is definately Point and Shoot. Within a minute of opening the package I had the camcorder recording and a minute later copied the file to my computer. It’s MSRP is under $130 and it will record 30 minutes of AVI video.
You can plug it into your TV or VCR and/or take the camera to CVS or Walgreens to transfer the video to DVD.
The camera also uses USB connections to connect to your computer. The only downside to that is that the USB connection pops out from the side of the camera – which is cool, but my laptop USB plugs are oriented in a way that makes it impossible to plug into my laptop without a USB extension.
Anyways, not a bad way to get short video clips and do it very easily.
I’ll post more later as I get to play with it more.