The Next Window

After Hurricane Katrina, we had a huge number of hummingbirds visit our house. Perhaps this was because we still had a feeder available.

We had one problem, though. We had been remodelling and our sun porch, which previously had clear plexiglass as “windows” did not have any windows at the time.

Unfortunately, the hummingbirds saw the relatively shady area with plants and decided to visit. When they wanted to leave, however, they tried to get out the skylight — and, of course, they couldn’t. We lost several before I was able to get some fiberglass screening and close in the sun porch temporarily.

This hummingbird almost made it…

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Back in the early 1990’s, I was driving to work one day and heard an NPR announcement of the upcoming radio drama series “Star Wars.”

My excitement at the announcement was overwhelmed by the impression of the actual radio drama!

Instead of the visual candy of the screen version, the radio drama enabled me to visualize the events and people. Definitely a good thing! Several of the roles were reprised by the original actors.

Star Wars (“Episode 4″) was filled in the holes in the movie. The 2.5 hour movie became 13 episodes at about 45 minutes each — lots of time for characters to develop and to address the background, too.

This set includes not only the original Episode 4, but also Episode 5 (The Empire Strikes Back) and Episode 6 (Return of the Jedi).

I highly recommend this CD set. You’ll enjoy it for a long time.
The Complete Star Wars Trilogy, Episodes IV, V, & VI Radio Drama (Audio CDs)

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Buy.com has the SanDisk Sansa 4GB mp3 player on sale, ending 6/25/06.

It also plays videos, has an FM tuner and is a voice recorder!

I have their 1GB MP3 player, which is really light. You load & unload MP3 files and even data files using WIndows Explorer — or you can use Windows Media Player to load the mp3 files. I assume this works the same way.

SanDisk Sansa e260 4GB MP3 Player $174.95 After Rebate

Expires 06/25/06

Video Formats

• AVI Playback
• MPEG-1 Playback
• MPEG-2 Playback
• MPEG-4 Playback
• VOB Playback
• QuickTime MOV Playback
• WMV Playback
• MPEG Playback
• DAT Playback

Product Features

• FM Recorder
• Voice Recorder
• Audio Player
• Video Player
• Photo Viewer
• FM Tuner

They’ve also got the Creative Zen Micro Photo 4GB MP3 Player – Photo Viewer – FM Radio on sale for $139.99.

The Zen Micro Photo plays MP3’s, WMA (Windows Media Audio) and WAV files and displays photos. It does not play videos and doesn’t include an FM tuner, though.

Allposters has a great selection of posters for the current World Cup Championships. I’ve bought from them before and found their products to be excellent in quality.

There’s a new article at Terry’s Computer Tips about Windows Mobile 5, especially in comparison to Windows Mobile 3.

Walter�s New PDA, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Lov- uh, Live With Windows Mobile 5.0

If you’re thinking about a new PocketPC, check out this review of one user’s experiences “upgrading” from a Windows Mobile 3 Pocket PC to a Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC.

HP iPAQ hx2495 Pocket PC (Electronics) Manufacturer:Hewlett Packard Released:

With the latest news — a new Star Trek movie is on the way — featuring James T. (Tiberius) Kirk during his Starfleet Academy days — many fans have mixed emotions.

You know, “they’re doing it again, I’m not getting suckered into spending more money on Star Trek movies, Opening Day, Sure, I’ll be there.”

The User Friendly cartoon strip has a view that many fans will appreciate…

“Reduce Your Phone Bill!” Ever heard that? I bet this guy wishes he’d switched!

The New Straits Times (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ) reports:

PENDANG, KEDAH: A meat importer had a shock when he received a hefty telephone bill — for RM800 trillion.

That’s about $220 TRILLION DOLLARS at today’s exchange rates.

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It was a fast, close game — and LSU pulled away from Duke at the end for a fantastic NCAA Tournament win.

LSU 62, Duke 54

LSU Moves Up, Duke Moves OUT!

Great job, LSU!

In February, I received a “2005 Volunteer of the Year” award at the Cajun Clickers Computer Club’s volunteer appreciation dinner. Everything at the Cajun Clickers (www.clickers.org) is done by volunteers!

I was recognized for my work leading the Cajun Clickers Katrina Pet Rescue Project, as an volunteer instructor, as a PC Tune-up volunteer, as member of the web site maintenance staff, as one of the Cajun Clickers Radio Show hosts, and other volunteer work.

Two other volunteers were selected also to receive Volunteer of the Year awards also: Penny Cano (PC guru and instructor of our popular “Computers for the Dumb and Dumber” series) and Pete Galik (head of our 2005 garage sale and a volunteer for almost everything).

We have over 1,500 families as members of this all-volunteer computer users group in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Membership includes the immediate family (those living in the same house). Visit our web site to see this month’s schedule of programs.

Cajun Clickers has a monthly general meeting, and many other meetings, too. We usually have 40 to 60 educational events (classes, workshops and special interest group meetings) at our permanent offices, and there is no extra charge for these events.

We also have a mailed monthly newsletter, available via download, too, our Cajun Clickers Radio Show every Saturday morning at 9am CST on WJBO (you can listen on-line at www.wjbo.com), and active mailing lists. We have two lecture rooms and a computer lab (15 student computers), all equipped with instructor PCs and projectors.