Paul's Comments

I want to thank those people who either e-mailed or wrote comments in response to messages I left on Usenet regarding converting AVI to WMV so I can edit files, as well as video editing tools. I will check out the suggestions. I will add a note here in case I forgot and only put it on the followup video I placed on You Tube, that I eventually did figure out how to edit video; tell the conversion program that came with the camera that I want to convert the AVI video to a format readable by the Microsoft Zune portable media player; that one uses WMV files which are readable by Microsoft Windows Movie Maker. I still wish there was something better than MSWMM, especially for putting in captions, I'd like more options.

On a side note, for some reason if you go to this blog as http://www.paul-robinson.us instead of http://paul-robinson.us this software believes that to be referrer spam. That does not make any sense and I'm not sure why. Technically I don't use the WWW. prefix almost all of the time, and in theory, both should be identical. I will probably post a comment at B2evolution and ask why it is doing this. Probably the system is set up without the WWW and adding it causes it to mistake it for referrer spam, and wouldn't if it was the other way around, e.g. if it had been installed to WWW it wouldn't care if it was not present. This probably has something to do with people putting some form of extra sub-domain on a domain name. I'm not sure, but this particular behavior is incorrect and shouldn't happen.

[Update: 4/16/2008] The software that runs this blog had Google groups - the system for reading Usenet News through a web browser - listed in its database as a referrer spam site. What's interesting is that when accessed from a google groups display page as http://paul-robinson.us it didn't have a problem, but when accessed from http://www.paul-robinson.us it would pop up an error page indicating that it was suspected referrer spam, but on that page it would post the exact same link which you could click on, and that would work! (I find this behaviour rather comical.)