Technology, Music, etc. 

Technology, Music, etc.

On Monday evening I went looking for a video of M.L. King Jr. delivering the "I Have a Dream" speech. For a while I thought I was going to have to download QuickTime, but then I found it in Windows format. I watched it (17 minutes) told my son about it, and he watched it.

When I was teaching in the U.S. in the late 80s, I searched high and low for a VHS video of that speech. Someone at the college finally offered me a complete set of "Eyes on the Prize" on VHS, the idea being: fast forward to the speech you want. Sometimes the technology today still amazes me.

Of course our son, almost 15, uses a wider variety of tools and functions than my wife and I do. The other day he saw "Fern Gully" on TV, something he hadn't seen for years. He looked it up, realized there were some big stars doing voices in it, etc., and started looking to see if he could find the music from the movie. I think he found some.

He loves his MP3 player. He often comes to the computer to download some tunes, and change the mix on his player. Unfortunately, the last couple of days, when he has finished, it is hard for me to get on the Internet. He tells me he completely removes the downloader when he is finished with it--deletes all related components, even from the Deleted file. This is good; I'm proud of him. Music downloaders are notorious for including spyware. So what goes wrong? When I try to open our usual home page, it shows up, and the bar at the bottom says "1 item remaining," and then freezes.

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