Technological experimentation
We had our first experience with Skype and a video camera on Sunday. First we spoke to my parents early morning. It was reasonably successful for a short while although the sound wasn't as good as a landline and our internet connection went down after a few minutes.
We tried again with Sean's parents in the evening, this time with two way video. It was a bit stuttery but certainly feasible, except for the fact that we couldn't keep our connection up for more than two minutes! And then we had to reboot to get the connection to work again.
I called the support line on Monday and it turns out that the problem was this: (anyone technical - let me know if this sounds like a load of rubbish) the modem was connecting via a USB port and so was the video camera. Apparently there is only a certain amount of power available to all the USB sockets. I've now connected the modem via it's ethernet cable (I don't know why they didn't tell me to use this to start with!) and I'll let you know how that goes.
My other piece of technological experimentation was trying to show the comments on the main blog page. I couldn't find a check box for this but I did find some kind of pseudo HTML that I hacked for a bit. I managed to get the comments up but thought that I had lost the sidebar in the process. However looking at the blog now, the sidebar is still "lost" (i.e. down the bottom) on their default setting. I'll put them back now and maybe I'll look at getting a new layout.
Apologies to Aunty Sally and Uncle David for not being notified of the blog - still you can now read quite a bit in one go...
Mike - I haven't forgotten about food! I'm just saving it all up for a special food related post (with pictures).
And Cat - I'm not sure that I'll be letting you use the facilities if you think that's the wrong way to flush things down the toilet!
In other exciting news - we're going to see the Rolling Stones in Telstra Stadium! https://tickets.rollingstones.com/
We had our first experience with Skype and a video camera on Sunday. First we spoke to my parents early morning. It was reasonably successful for a short while although the sound wasn't as good as a landline and our internet connection went down after a few minutes.
We tried again with Sean's parents in the evening, this time with two way video. It was a bit stuttery but certainly feasible, except for the fact that we couldn't keep our connection up for more than two minutes! And then we had to reboot to get the connection to work again.
I called the support line on Monday and it turns out that the problem was this: (anyone technical - let me know if this sounds like a load of rubbish) the modem was connecting via a USB port and so was the video camera. Apparently there is only a certain amount of power available to all the USB sockets. I've now connected the modem via it's ethernet cable (I don't know why they didn't tell me to use this to start with!) and I'll let you know how that goes.
My other piece of technological experimentation was trying to show the comments on the main blog page. I couldn't find a check box for this but I did find some kind of pseudo HTML that I hacked for a bit. I managed to get the comments up but thought that I had lost the sidebar in the process. However looking at the blog now, the sidebar is still "lost" (i.e. down the bottom) on their default setting. I'll put them back now and maybe I'll look at getting a new layout.
Apologies to Aunty Sally and Uncle David for not being notified of the blog - still you can now read quite a bit in one go...
Mike - I haven't forgotten about food! I'm just saving it all up for a special food related post (with pictures).
And Cat - I'm not sure that I'll be letting you use the facilities if you think that's the wrong way to flush things down the toilet!
In other exciting news - we're going to see the Rolling Stones in Telstra Stadium! https://tickets.rollingstones.com/
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