Well, I'm off in a few minutes for the drive up to
Robie Park to enjoy visiting with riders and their horses before heading to the
Auburn Dam Overlook and Net Control to do the webcast of the 53rd Annual Tevis
Cup.
I have a competent staff of laptop operators at
Michigan Bluff - Heidi Schiavone, Foresthill Hill - Liz Carey, Steve Anderson
and Bruce Baldwin, and the Fairgrounds Stadium - fellow RideCamper D'Arcy
Demianoff.
Karen Chaton will be heading the Photo and Video
portion of the webcast, with her team of Tinker Hart, Sue Benson, Steve Hallmark
and Julienne Rha, with some possible help from Jonni Jewel. They hope to be able
to cover a goodly portion of the ride and Karen is quick to get things up on the
web and does a really masterful job of organizing things. I know with her
heading that department I have no worries!
I will be manning the database and updating the
website from 5:00 a.m. Sat. until every last horse is accounted for Sunday
morning. No rest for the wicked! The usual plan is for the radio personnel to
report in every 20 minutes or 20 horses. By the time that gets to me, gets
translated into something the database can read and then translated back out to
the web pages, it's about 45 minutes with everything running smoothly. As the
night wears on, it's easier to get the updates done quicker with less horses to
report.
I will have my email on so if anyone wants to send
a note and let me know how you think it's going, please feel free. However, I
probably won't have time to answer you.
The website address is www.teviscup.net and you can get to the
webcast by going to "The Ride" and then "Event Webcast." Or you can go directly
to the webcast at http://www.foothill.net/tevis/webcast07/main.html For
those of you that are "Java challenged" I hurriedly built a
sitemap yesterday to replace the main menu in case you can't figure out how
to get your computer to see the java drop-down menu. The link for that is right
under the menu. Hopefully, I typed all the links right!
