Briefly Noted…

I'm still fixing my main computer but in the meantime, I fixed something else. A bunch of you wrote me that the video link to Craig Ferguson's speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner that I posted here no longer worked. Well, I found a new link and installed it in place of the old link. So it works now.

By the way: Do you folks all know how to capture a YouTube or other embedded video to your harddrives for later viewing? It's not difficult. If you're using Mozilla Firefox as your browser, there are several plug-ins that will do it for you. If you're using something else, there are several websites where you enter the address and it does the work for you. KeepVid is probably the simplest of the bunch and it will work for many sites. There are also free software programs like YouTube Downloader, as well as software you can pay for if you absolutely insist. However you get them, you'll then need an FLV Player to play the clips and there are plenty of free ones on the 'net…this one, for instance.

Anyway, if you see a clip you like, you might want to grab it while you can.