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Mother's Day

Sunday May 13th this year (2007) will be Mother’s Day in the United States.  In the United States it is held on the second Sunday in May.  There will be a lot of phone calls made.  There will be a lot flowers sent and candy sent to mothers.  My mother passed away many years ago.

I think men like me later in life wish they had done more for their mother.  You think about all the little things that you could have done and you did not.  My mother always wanted to show me the family photos and talk about them.  I could have called her on the phone more often.  I could have seen her more often.  Now it is too late.  All I can do is tell you young people to do those things now and you will not be old one day and wished you had done those things.

One good deed I did do was keep my mother out of a nursing home.  She never wanted to be in a nursing home.  (She had been a nurse.  She was an “LPN.”)  My mother had to go to the hospital a few times.  When she got away from her home she got wild and would be confused and fight with the nurses.  The doctor told me that she needed to be in a nursing home.  I told him no.  I took her home and Hilary, my daughter, moved in with her and took care of her until she died.  So my mother died in her own home and did not have to go into a nursing home.  I could not have done that with out Hilary.  If it had just been me having to care for her I am sure I would have put her in a nursing home.

Sometimes I have a dream that my mother is in her home and I dream that I have not gone by to check on her or call her in weeks or months.  In my dream is has no one and is alone and has no way to get food or anything.  I wake up and for a few seconds I have to stop and think is my mother live or dead?  Did I forget about her?

Young people.. spend some time with your mother …listen to her..let her tell you the stories she has told you before..let her show you the family photos..let her show you her lists.  Better you should do those things now..and make her happy..and maybe you will not wake up in a cold sweat from a dream some night.

End this war now

Howard On Video Sites

You and everyone else sure seem to turn off all banners.  I have noticed that for years.  You just never look at them. It has been like that for years.  I do not think there is a day that goes by that I do not have someone ask me how they find my web cam or my photos or find something.  It will be things that I have flashing banner with horn honking and people pay no attention. 
Now I hate advertisements as much as the rest of you and maybe more…but Christ people should look around a little bit. 

Show Me Video is going to work out OK.  Is a free BlogSpot site for me.  If your looking to set up a blog I can recommend BlogSpot.  Click on Show Me Video and you will see how to get a free site. 
I am going to use that as a site to share information about everything going on video.  I was trying to put it on Howard’s Notebook  but it works out better having a blog and having everything in one spot.

I have set up another video site and that is Show Me TV.  That site is using Blip.TV.  It is excellent.  They have everything first class from one end of the site to the other end. 
Right now if your interested in your own video site I would recommend Blip.TV or Stickam.  If you want to make videos and post them or have a show on the Internet then check them out.

If your looking to see videos I bet you have checked out YouTube many times.  They are still a site to visit for videos.  LiveVideo has a nice look too their site.  I would have to put them number 3. 
If your looking for a place to put your videos do not waste your time with MSN SoapBox  and Stage6. 

Now if you are looking to see adult videos then check out:  Sextoy TV. 
If your looking to see X rated adult web cams then check out:  ANYWebCam.  I am not fully up to date on adult sites I will do some research and try and come up with a better list of sites.  I would like to have a list, for you, of adult sites that are free and ones that offer live web cams for a small fee.  I will work on it when I get time.

Well it is 0100 and I am going to get into bed.  I do not have to wake Russell for Ken tomorrow early.  I can sleep with out setting an alarm.

First Amendment Fund Raiser

The following is from Carlos Miller:

“As many of you know, I was arrested for photographing police against
their wishes in February. 

In arresting me, they tackled me and bashed my head against the
sidewalk, breaking a $400 flash in the process. Then they charged me with
nine misdemeanors and threw me in jail for 16 hours, claiming that I
had been standing in the middle of the street when a photo later
revealed that the street was behind them.

The truth is, I was arrested because I did not back down from their
intimidation tactics when they were violating my First Amendment
Rights. 

Show Me TV

I found my way over to Blip.TV and it looks great.  There are a great many things about it that are just great.  I have checked out other sites and BlipTV appears to have them all beat hands down.
So I am going to be posting some videos to the site.

Blip.TV

I will not talk much about it here because I am going to cover the subject of videos on Show Me Video but I just checked out and signed up for Blip.TV and here is the first video I made for the site.

Click To Play

I have been on line 24/7 since 1982!  The way not a typo error.  Yes since June of 1982 people could connect with my site.  At first it was via a telephone line, and modem, at 300 baud.  Later I moved to the WWW after they invented it (about 1995).  I was one of the first on the Internet.

I suspect I am the father of the blog. I been doing a blog since 1982.  I had one of the first web cam sites on line.


Check out what maybe the world's first blog:  ShowMeBlog

Satellite Internet

CNN has a report on Satellite Internet.  If you been reading ShowMeBlog for a few years the story will not come as a surprise.  It does day that 10% of U.S. households rely on satellite Internet.

You will remember I had it in Orlando FL when we lived on Dock Road and there was no DSL or cable for us.  At that time it was Internet down only and I had to send data over a phone line.  It sucked.  Later we moved into town more and we got cable.  I think that was Road Runner again.  It was excellent.

Then we moved to TX and we had DSL.  Then we went to cable.  Then we moved to a small town south of Dallas and we had to go with satellite Internet.  By that time it was two way via the dish.  I posted a photo of the dish here and told you all about it.  It sucked big time.  Of course we had a number of computers hooked up.  I think if a person had one computer hooked up you could stand to use the service. 

I feel sorry for the 10% that have to use a satellite for the Internet.  The good point however is that if your a rural resident you can get Internet service. 

Hurricane Season "Very Active"

CNN reports that scientists expect up to 17 named storms and nine hurricanes.  Hurricane season begins June 1^st. 

I wanted to get a cam corder soon but I better move that too the bottom of my list and get a ham radio before June 1^st. 

About the middle of June Ken will be going to the Washington DC area for two months of training.  Ken will get to visit with LaDawna and her husband in the DC area.  But the company that Ken works for will put him up in a first class hotel for the two months and pay him some pretty big extra bucks during the training.

Streaming video has made some major progress in the last few months.  I hope we do not get any hurricanes at all.  But if we get some this year I will try and stream the video out on ShowMeCam.  Of course if we lose power or cable that will be the end of that project.  I will try and post to ShowMeBlog some photos using the Palm Treo but those photos are not very good.

I hope we do not have any storms this year but if we do I plan to get some photos.

Did it again

I did it again.  I messed up my OS.  I had put Windows XP Home back on the computer and started installing stuff.  Then I get the bright idea of installing Linux so I could dual boot.  If it sounds like you have heard this story before.. well you have.. hell I must be getting very old.  Next stop nursing home.

Well SUSE 10.2 looked like it was going to do everything correct but just as it started to write to the hard drive..bang.. a disk error..so I crossed my fingers and did a re-boot and no OS.

I just installed Vista RC1 preview copy of Windows.  Which is only good until the end of this month.  On the 18^th I will start to get warnings about this version.   Hell.. the way I have been doing things.. I wil have crashed it before the 18^th and for sure before the end of the month.

Windows has had an offer for sometime, I think, they will let you use Windows XP Professional x64 edition for 60 days or is it 90 days.  You can download it or have it sent on a CD.  Two or three times I signed up for them to let me download it and they never sent a email to me.  Maybe they have hnbbs.net locked out as a spam site or something.

Well I just paid them to send it on CD to me.  I gave my Yahoo email address and I never got an email from them.  I think they have some sort of problem.

Russell and I own a copy of XP Professional but it is the 32 bit version.  XP Professional was a good OS.

Well right now at 0315 I am running Windows Vista.  It does look pretty.

Blogger's Choice Awards

Remember the Blogger’s Choice Awards?



Yes ShowMeBlog still has ONE vote.  That is my own vote by the way!
Truth is I do not care.  But on the other hand consider this…In the beginning there was a void…Then in June of 1982 Jim Howard created the world’s first and only blog.  People came from all over the world to connect with it at 300 baud.  Many years later other people decided to do blogs. 
What is funny is that here they have a bloggers award and ShowMeBlog gets zero votes.
They were going to hold the awards in Orlanod FL and that is a drive of a couple of hours from here.  I had no desire to attend.

Now in November it is going to be held in Las Vegas.  I have never been to Las Vegas I would love to go to Las Vegas.