The Report of My Death is Greatly Exaggerated

I love learning new technology (is that where Corey gets it, or did I get it from him?). You might remember my post about the individual who couldn’t find me and so I had to up my technology presence (if I were good with this blogging yet, I’d figure out how to link you to that post!).

I have a number of “Google alerts” set up for various internet/news/interest issues that I like to follow: Conrad Black; Integrity; Employment Law; etc. I also set up a Google alert for the name “Brenda Glover”. I can find out if anything on the net is posted with my name attached to it. So, that is how I found out this week that I died!

Actually, it was Brenda Dianne Glover who died, not Brenda Mary Maureen Glover. Good for me; tragic for Brenda D. Glover. Scary, she is really really close to my age. Rest in Good Peace, Brenda Dianne Glover.

A new acquaintance of mine googled me after they met me. She found that an award-winning paper that I wrote while I was at law school was posted on the Net and congratulated me on it. Cool! (note to file: did I copyright that paper?). People do google!

Continuing on the technology front, Kelly has taught me how to have a video call with her. It is stunningly an amazing way to connect with her. All you need is an MSN messenger account (free), a computer with a webcam (not free) and a microphone (built in or internal to the computer, but not free). Then you can see each other and talk to each other for as long as you want, for free!! So Star Trekky. Don’t beam me up yet, Scotty, I’m having too much joy talking to Kelly. Besides, you already beamed up one Brenda (Dianne) Glover and one Brenda Glover is enough for now, as many of my family and friends would tell you about the nightmare of having me up there!

During a video call I can even carry the laptop around the house and show her stuff. Jim and I were debating about how I hate the way he has set up the re-painted family room. I couldn’t do it because of the broken arm (link would be to that post here if I knew how to do it...). I told him he could keep it the way he liked it but Kelly would be the arbitrator of the dispute. Kelly, because she was always rearranging her furniture and I always liked the way she did it.

So, I carried the laptop downstairs and did a real-time, virtual tour for her. Jim won the toss on that one. But now I’m waiting for Lynn’s opinion because she is the real estate star. No, that wasn’t part of the rules going in. But when you’re losing in the game, try to change the rules!

My next challenge is to figure out how to link to previous posts and how to post all the great comments I am getting via e-mail – including some great stories and suggestions for posts from other people. You can post your comments here but you have to know how to do that.

I also have to figure out simple instructions for people to access the RSS feed for the post, since they want to keep following the new posts but don’t know how to do it. (interim workaround, save the blog to your favourites and keep checking in.) The next blog may be about you!

Stay tuned, Scotty.