Putting the concert on VCD.

I spent the bulk of the day creating a VCD. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a CD that plays video on your DVD player. You can only record about 45 minutes of video, and the quality is about the same as an extended-format videotape. But you don’t have to rewind it, and you can make lots of quick, inexpensive copies of it with any CD-burning computer. All you need is a Macintosh and Roxio Toast Titanium.

Video editing can really kill an afternoon, but I’m happy with the results. Considering the source material, it came out all right. (It’s of portions of the Spring Concert. David McBride was holding the camera, and he was sitting in the second row, so everything’s too close… and David has this tendency to squeal like a little girl, right next to the microphone. But otherwise it’s all good.)

Xanga doesn’t ask for my password when I post entries. However, it always asks for my password whenever I want to change the “look and feel” of my site.

So, my background colors are secure. Meanwhile, someone could hop onto my computer and easily add pseudopigraphical entries to my blog. Ah, priorities.