The event is called The Big Blue Test because the blue circle is the international symbol for diabetes. The idea of a shared "blood sugar test-in" started with an activity organized in July 2009 by TuDiabetes. More than a thousand people participated then. Now, we seek to reach thousands of people with diabetes through seven other diabetes social networks and Twitter. The activity incorporates 14 minutes of physical activity to reinforce the importance of exercise.

People with diabetes have to test their blood sugar routinely. It can be a very lonely activity. So we want people to take The Big Blue Test, to shed light on this chronic condition and the importance of exercise on World Diabetes Day.

Recently, I woke up with an idea for a video leading up to World Diabetes Day, this coming Nov. 14. It would have a fun theme, a-la-Charlie Chaplin, with some unusual photos that would hopefully get people's attention... so I wondered whether using some ACTUAL music like the one Charlie Chaplin's movies had would be possible.

It turned out that his first movie, Making a Living, was in the public domain. With some trial-and-error on iMovie, I was finally able to extract the audio track from the video (Archive.org carries the entire movie, for you to download) and with a few hours of editing work, this is what resulted: