Pablo Averbuj

Real Alternative

I don’t know a single person who has any fondness for Real Media/Player, and that’s putting it pretty kindly. Unfortunately, NPR still does a great deal with Real, especially old shows before they saw the light. I was very pleased to find a program called “Real Alternative” which is an independent player to play Real music/video files. I used it to listen to an episode of Diane Rehm and it worked perfectly.

My life up to Anna

I won’t trouble you with sentimental gushing over my daughter. Similar sentiments have been expressed elsewhere and with flair with which I cannot compete. Suffice it to say that life has been good to me. But that is not what I’m writing about.

In the past 10 days or so it occurred to me how much of everything I’ve done has come together on this occasion. Projects that many people considered a frivolous or idiotic use of time or money. Don’t get me wrong, these are not all essential skills, per se, but nevertheless in a way I feel that life has been leading up to this. It’s difficult to enumerate but I’ll give it a shot:

• Nocturnal habits
• Photography skills honed in camera club
• Video editing/publishing
• The 1TB NAS storage device holding all the video/pictures I’ve captured since her birth
• Bulk mailings (snail mail)

Ok, you called my bluff. I don’t really have an idea what I’m talking about but there is definately a disquieting sensation that life has reached an apex (in a good way).

Anna Caroline Averbuj

Anna Caroline Averbuj – 9.02 pm – 8 lbs 4.5 oz – 20.5 inches. Leigha was incredible. Mom and baby are great.
Update (3/2): I uploaded pictures to Leigha’s Gallery.
Update (3/6): There’s now a Meet Anna video (~10 minutes/24mb) available for watching.
Update (3/12): Anna’s website is now online!.