Kids today
are born with a special DNA strand for technology usage.
People of my generation – somewhere between
World War II and Vietnam (note: here in the U.S. we can always
distinguish time periods as between wars) – have had to make the transition to technology from an era when black and white television was the new innovation.
This week I
was trying unsuccessfully to down load a clip from YouTube to my blog. That same day I noticed that SQUATLO was
displaying the clip (John Oliver’s roast of Trump) on his site. I left him a comment asking how he had
managed and he answered that he embedded by copying the HTML.
Now most men
my ages understand the web to be a marvelous invention that allows you to
access porn without an eight millimeter projector – and if you are old enough
you will know what I am talking about.
However, something called HTML is a total
mystery.
But the WEB
is a marvelous place and recently I have discovered that anything I need to
know can be found on YouTube. So off I
go to YouTube and ask how I can embed video in a blog using HTML – and the
first one up gave the answer.
In case
there is anyone out there besides me that doesn’t know how: you find your clip on YouTube; you right click and select - copy HTML; you go back to your blog post and select paste. That's it!
Technology
is wonderful: now all I have to do is go to YouTube and find out how to text
with my new cell phone.
It is all a learning curve - an adjustment to a Time Warp.
the Ol'Buzzard
