The best-laid plans of mice and men/often go awry...

In this case it's the best-laid plans of one woman and her Sony Handycam. I thought I had my technology figured out, but it seems I don't or didn't. I do now, but I didn't have it figured out like I would have liked to for the inauguration bash at the Tecumseh Center for the Arts.

Yes, I have a wonderful video. I added professional commentary. It all looks great. The problem now is I can't get it off of my video camera. I know what I did wrong, and I've tried almost every way I can think of to rectify the problem, even getting my wonderfully technological wizard of a husband involved in the effort. So far, nothing has worked. I am going to take it to a video professional and see if he can help, so all may not be lost, but until then, my apologies to people like Jo Walker, Harvey Schmidt, Pat Sturk and Denise Dwyer who offered wonderful moments on my video. I can watch it, but I can't figure out how to share it. Hopefully, I'll figure it out. If not, I've learned a hard lesson and hope to have everything in working order for future events.

With that, I add that the Herald is moving into the 21st Century as we explore various aspects of "new media." Those seem to be the buzz words in our industry and we certainly want to keep up with the times and offer all kinds of things to our readers. So, that means I will be out at events with my Handycam in the future. By then I hope to have all the bugs worked out, but as we all know "the best-laid plans..."

Cristina Trapani-Scott