Rants & Raves

February 01, 2002 My Netcam Appearance on TSS

Yes, that was me on the netcam on Thursday. If you've watched the TSS cubecam lately, you know about the signs that often appear in the background. The most prominent has been the "Sarah Rules" sign (Daily Dish: The Saga Behind the Sign), referring to TSS producer Sarah Lane. However, Darci Wood also had her "Darci Rocks" sign up for a time. She is one of my favorite TSS people. When I thought of putting up the sign as a way of perpetuating this ongoing gag, I decided it was time to call in with my question about browser safe colors. I had some idea of what browser safe colors are about, but I have no intention of dealing with them for the layout of my site. But I did design a Javascript tool that allows web designers to design the custom scrollbar colors that appear in Internet Explorer. I wanted to know if I should add an option for browser safe colors.

The video portion of the call almost didn't happen. The instructions on the TechTV site listed iVista as an option for videoconferencing software. I had heard that NetMeeting doesn't work with ATI Radeon video cards, so I chose iVista. After submitting my question to Kevin in the Netcam Cineplex, he called me on the phone. He told me that they were no longer using iVista on the TSS set, and directed me to where I could find Netmeeting on my computer. But there was no icon for it under Programs, Accessories, Communications, as he said. At this point he said it was okay, that I would just be on by phone, and put me on hold.

Well, I wasn't going to settle for that after making the sign. Thinking that I had simply neglected to install NetMeeting, I grabbed my Windows 98 CD and went to the Add/Remove Programs control panel. But it said that it was already installed. A quick file search revealed that the icon was in Programs, Accessories, Internet Tools. I started it up and it worked. I'm not sure if NetMeeting was patched or if the driver wrapper that I installed that made it work. Now the problem was to let Kevin know that it was working. Ten minutes before I was to go on-air, he came back on the phone to go over my question again. He got the netcam connection working, commented on the sign, and put me on hold again. Five minutes later he came back to tell me that it was Darci's birthday (which I didn't know) and said I could wish her a Happy Birthday if I liked. When I did get on air, I stumbled over my question a bit, but I loved the reaction I got from Darci.

Posted by Christy on February 01, 2002 09:32 PM

Comments:

Aw, Christy is so cute. Hehe Christy, good going!

Posted by: Rachel on February 9, 2002 04:39 PM

Yeah! I saw you on that day! :-)

Posted by: Sue on July 12, 2002 08:58 AM