January 21 -> 31

Hello,

Since he is doing more "active" things we are posting more videos. Because of this I figured I would give you all a little information about the videos posted. We are using a Kodak DX6490 camera to take the pictures and videos. This camera takes the videos in Apple's QuickTime format. Therefore, to view the videos you must have QuickTime installed on your computer.

Additionally, the videos are much larger in size, and therefore take longer to download. A good way of estimating the download speeds is to assume that it will take at least 30 seconds to download a 1MB movie. So if I say that some movie is 5MB, it will take at least 150 seconds (5 x 30), or 2 1/2 minutes, to download. As you can see, this can be quite time consuming.

And remember, all of these "times" are minimums based on the fastest speed data can move out from our house. There may be things that slow it down between here and wherever you are.

Another stat to know is that the videos record at about 4 seconds per MB. So that 5MB video that will take 150 seconds to download, will contain approximately 20 seconds of video.

Granted, this is not much of a return on your investment (so to speak), which is why I try to give some indication about what the movie is "about". Hopefully this gives you some idea as to which videos may be more "worth" downloading.

Now back to your normally scheduled entertainment.

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1/29/2007 - How long ago was it that I said that he was on the verge of being active? Well, he has pretty much crossed the threshold. He is now rolling over, pretty much non-stop. He gets himself so worn out and frustrated, yet he keeps going. Tummy to back, and back again. Only to start the whole process over. He isn't really "going" anywhere yet. But probably tomorrow he will figure out that he can propel himself to the object of his desires. Whatever that might be.

He is still figuring out the whole sitting thing, but I'm sure that will come now that he is really building up his core muscles.

Our life is just about to kick into overdrive.