I was very busy yesterday and worked from 9 AM to 5 AM the next day. I put my computer to work running a Web Position Gold ranking report and then went out to do some errands. I withdrew some cash using my bank’s ATM machine and bought a new 256 MB thumb drive because my old one is write protected and I can’t do anything about it. Thumb drives are getting to be pretty cheap. I paid less than $20 for a replacement at Wal-Mart. I have a script that copies some of my most frequently updated files to the thumb drive. I was unable to run that script until I had a new thumb drive.
I also bought a ten pack of DVD-R discs. I still have a few DVD+R discs but my other computers have older DVD-ROM drives and cannot read those type of discs. I had to make several attempts to burn a new DVD of Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise Edition so I could finally install it on my DELL computer. Eventually I managed to burn it onto a DVD-R disc. I installed Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise Edition, Visual Studio 2005, and the MSDN Library on my DELL which consumed a good portion of its 20 GB hard drive. I need to upgrade it to a bigger hard drive.
I also spent a lot of time documenting color correction in Adobe Premiere Pro. I am up to chapter 11 of Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies by Keith Underdahl. My camcorder does not handle low light very well so it proved useful to know how to adjust the black/white balance. I was able to improve the look of several video clips. I did a video of an aromatherapy candle sold by Paul Robinett, a popular videographer on YouTube. I created most of the video in Windows Movie Maker but I color corrected a few clips in Adobe Premiere Pro and exported them.
