So then she’ll troubleshoot for an hour before she decides to figure it out another day.

But before she logs off, she’ll see that some of her blogroll links are broken, too.

So she’ll get down to work cleaning out the all those bloggers who return 404 pages. (Sniff!)

And while she’s at it, she’ll correct all the changed URLs for bloggers who’ve moved! (Hooray! New sites!)

But not before an evil, ruthless, bushwhacking urge comes upon her! (Grrrrrrrrr…)

She’ll brutally SLASH AND BURN all those links that don’t link back to her. (“Bwa ha!”)

(Some sites she’ll leave up anyway — for unknown reasons — unless it has something to do with bloggers in the possession of certain compromising photos.)

At that point she’ll start feeling guilty.

She’ll worry she might have deleted somebody who DID link to her, who wasn’t returning a 404 page, and who never, ever blackmailed her.

She’ll resolve to ask their forgiveness but also to tell them to contact Her Mooshishness IMMEDIATELY so she can relink to them again.

And after all this toil, she’ll notice that many other aspects of her site require some major updating in order to work properly — but that’s when she’ll just pick up her moose-sized rear end and go shovel down a muffin.

Make that TWO muffins.

The most noticeable kablooeyness was the disappearance of my Super Sabado post. It’s been there all weekend, but some of you couldn’t see it.

If you came to me through a bonniewren.com link (no “www”) then it was gone. But if you put the www in front of the bonniewren.com, kapow! There it was!

I learned all about 301 redirects and inserted one into my .htaccess file. Hopefully I took care of this problem, but as always, if something seems awry—more than USUALLY AWRY, that is— please let me know, because I’m consistently oblivious.

This is my first project with iMovie 6 (6.0.3), and I find it much buggier than iMovie 5. I wasted more time dealing with odd little quirks than actually editing the movie, so I’m not at all happy with the result.*

Also, I usually don’t let Mojo take the lead like that—I just did it so I could hold the camera. We used to use a harness, but Mojo would pull us all over the place. Then we watched a whole DVD’s worth of “Dog Whisperer” shows and realized we just needed a cheapie little leash held up high, under his ears.

We got rid of the harness and now walks with Mojo are a lot more fun—unless you’re trying to operate the Mojo Cam.

And here’s a warning for those of you prone to motion-sickness: this little video might make you a little nauseous.

*For any iMovie people who are curious, here are some of the problems I had:

1. Extracting the audio didn’t “keep”. I’d extract it, and then later on it would come back. I never could get rid of the audio in some clips. Very frustrating!
2. Removing a “video fx” wasn’t as straightforward as the manual claims. Oftentimes I’d remove the fast effect, only to find I now had two of the same clips. Somehow removing an effect duplicates a clip—sometimes.
3. Occasionally iMovie would lock an audio clip to a video clip, even though I didn’t want it locked.
4. The manual says, “To unlock the audio, select the clip and choose Advanced > Unlock Audio Clip,” but there is no “Unlock Audio Clip” command in the Advanced menu. There is a “Lock Audio Clip” command, but it is greyed out.
5. It kept crashing. And crashing. And CRASHING.

I had to restart several times. I ran my Disk Utility program, deleted the iMovie plist file, and rebooted a couple of times, too. What an ordeal!

The worst part about the entire experience: everything uploaded to Youtube is pixelated, no matter what settings I used (based on several recommendations I found on the web). Awful! Google Video isn’t much better, either.

iMovie 5 was a lot easier to work with. I hope iMovie 7 is an improvement.

It not only takes photos (and really good ones, too!) but it shoots videos as well. To celebrate, I made up an ultra-short movie composed of nothing but photos and videos I took with my cell phone.

Have a look and see:

And here is the link for all you feed readers out there.

We’re talking HUGE. I keep bumping into things I never used to bump into, a sure sign I need to start working out again. Either that, or move into a bigger house.

Anyway, while I was living it up in the candy bowl my laptop battery decided to go on strike, so I visited the UTC Apple Store to check battery prices.

While I was there I played with some of the new MacBooks and the software that comes with them, including something I never heard of before called “Photo Booth.” It sounded interesting, so I clicked the little Photo Booth icon and started it up.

A video began and I decided Photo Booth must be a movie player of some kind. And I wasn’t going to say anything critical until I knew more, but this movie was pretty darn boring! Kind of like an art student project where nothing ever happens but the actors look pained all the time anyway.

There was only one actor so far, an older woman who did nothing but peer into the space below the camera. I waited, but she didn’t do anything else, except squint. And look kind of peeved. Or maybe she was trying to convey annoyance about something.

Boy, I thought, that gal sure looks an awful lot like my mom. In fact, she could be my mom’s sister! No, maybe a little younger than my Mom. Maybe more like her… her…

… her daughter.

Good grief.

Turns out Photo Booth makes videos using the iSight video camera built into the MacBook screen. And that art movie? It was nothing but a horror flick featuring me—the old, squinty, peevish woman at the UTC Apple Store.

I’m sure Photo Booth will be handy for video chats and the like, but you won’t catch me using it again, unless I put a paper bag over my head.