Tooltips

Busy busy - no new shoots - I spend the day lining up people and working on the Web site.

First thing, I put up Ashraf's speech on YouTube. He's thrilled but wants the first 32 seconds cut out. If only YouTube would let you revise a video. No; you have to delete it and go right back to square one. There must be a reason. The 116 hits on the first one simply disappear.

I make DVDs for the National Kidney Foundation and Bonnie Addario Lung Cancer people. Suddenly I'm a Duplicating Dept.

It's good to get back to 2-59. I decide to revise the home page with portrait type photos rather than 16:9 wide screen stills from the video. After all the site is about people. So portrait - not landscape. Also this way I can fit 25 to a page. Let's see - that's only 40 pages for 1,000 videos.

Lunch at Baja Fresh, Corte Madera. Warm day. We sit outside. We meet Burton by chance. Line him up for a shoot. Anytime he says.That's five for this week.

Back home - I decide to crack Tooltips. It's tough. From 3:00 to 8:30. Finally I succeed. Woo Hoo! The problem is that if there's a " ' " in the pop up line it all falls apart. It's hard to write anything without a ' ... Take the word "It's" for example. Nowhere, I mean nowhere, does anyone say - you can't use a ' .

For two hours nothing works. I think it is a major mistake of mine. The demo pop up boxes work but mine don't! I start shortening my copy and suddenly it works (I had deleted a ' ). So now there are words like "cant" and "its" without their 's - crazy.

I scrap the old vertical menu and make a better one without people's names.

To bed. Yawn...