Walter Hutchens’ Blog

Below is a short (2 minute) video about the arrival of my Sony U and my first impressions of it. Actually, this “video” is just a fancy slideshow that I created on my Sony U750 using Photo Story (free download from Microsoft) and pictures shot with my tiny Pentax S5i.

Below that are links to two longer slideshows that I made for my ex-wife. She is in D.C. for the holidays while I’m here in Alabama with our daughter. I sent her these slideshows as a gift and to let her see what our daughter’s been doing while down South.

Making the shows with Photo Story was amazingly easy, but getting and tweaking HTML code to embed a Windows Media Player in a web page created with Blogger has actually been a big headache. I still haven’t got it quite right.

The “embedded” media player below works fine, sometimes, for the Firefox browser, but not yet for Internet Explorer (go figure–it works with a third party product, but it doesn’t work with three Microsoft products–Windows MediaPlayer, Photo Story and Internet Explorer!).

However, anybody with Windows Media Player (which exists for the Macintosh, too) should be able to click on the three simple links I’ve put below the “embedded” player. Each of these links should then launch and play one of the slideshows in a new window.

Launch Sony U Slideshow in a separate window

Launch Personal Holiday Slideshow 1 in a separate window

Launch Personal Holiday Slideshow 2 in a separate window

The difficulty of posting video with Blogger surprised me. Posting photos to a web page built with Blogger is now phenomenally easy with free tools like Picasa and its affiliated Hello component. However, video blogging (even with just slideshows) is apparently not yet idiot proof.