The New Dollar

A friend of mine sent this to me. I think it is hilarious on various levels!

Book Review

Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism by Bob Edwards

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
Most of the book was a review of the highlights of Murrow's career, but Edwards emphasizes Murrow's desire to educate through media. Edwards himself would prefer that news help us learn about both sides of an issue, make us think.


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It Works!!!

Jesse received a Roxio media suite for his birthday in April. We installed it but started experiencing various bugs, including one in which PhotoSuite crashed every time I tried to save a picture. I left it alone for a while, but we have several pictures I wanted to "scrapbook"; I held my breath every time I saved a doctored photo, but it didn't crash. I proudly present my first Roxio photo project! Hip Hip Hooray!!!

(If you click on the photo, it looks better.)

NEWS FLASH

We got a new camera! We had a five year-old camera that was driving me nuts! Every time I wanted to take a picture the battery was low or dead, even when it had just been charged. Costco sent us our executive membership rebate and a coupon for a new model of Nikon camera, but Jesse wasn't quite convinced; he kept arguing for the purchase of a new battery for the old camera. After a week or so he caved, and we got a Canon SD850 that was packaged with a photo printer (not needed, but nifty). The 850 has more megapixels (better photos), fun in-camera photo editing features, and better quality movies than the old camera. I am very pleased. ;)

We had a photo shoot this morning before church to try out the new camera and printer. Our best photos are in my picasa web album, which you can access from the slideshow at the right.

"Quote Of the Week"

Josh was walking on the back of the couch. I told him to get down. He looked at me, smiled his best smile with his head slightly tilted to one side, then said, "Mommy, walking on the couch isn't dangerous for me." He posed with his sweet smile, then kept walking to the armrest.

Video Time!

Jesse chose the automatic movie maker option this time: check out the clips from our trip.