Computer Technology, a fickle lady

Computer Technology can be so wonderful when it works as it should, but it can be like a fickle lady sometimes, too. Just when I think I can count on my computer do do things for me, there is a glitch. Then there has to be a lot of thinking and problem-solving to fix the problem.

Today I am finally able to get into Blogger to create another blog...I have been trying for an hour or more. I count on my computer to help me remember the username and password. Most of the time Blogger will just skip over the sign-in process and go right to the account. But today it knew nothing to help me, so I tried to find my Second Life Computer Log book to see if I had written those magic words and numbers there. I could not find them. I was getting so flustrated, so I took a break and walked with my dog and had lunch. Then I went through the process again and finally had to go into "Edit" personal information to finally access the Blog to make an entry.

Earlier this morning I tried to log on to Second Life and found that it was not working today. I tried going in on the older version without First Voice and found that it was not working either, so I went to secondlife.com to check out the grid status. It showed that it was not working this morning.

While I was there I started looking at some pictures in flickr that had been taken in Second Life and they were pretty interesting. There were also some good tips for taking pictures. One that impressed me was the idea of going into the "Client" tab . (First you have to access that tab by holding down Control + Alt+D.) Then you can go to Client > Character > Slow Motion Animations to slow down an action shot to half-speed. It just plays it in SloMo locally for the user to see, and not in-world for others to see.

This seemed like one of the good things that comes from a less-than-desirable situation of not being able to log on to blog. And I wrote all my vital statistics down in my notebook, so the next time it asks for a username and password, I will have it handy.

I guess we will just wait and see if Second Life is up and going by Sunday evening at 7:00p.m. CST when our group is supposed to meet to discuss our pictures for the news article for the current assignment.