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Thursday, September 11, 2003

Regrets...
I've had a few.
But then again,
Too few to mention!
--"My Way",
written by Paul Anka
When I hear that song, I think of Frank Sinatra, and sometimes Elvis or Sid Vicious -- all of whom have been known to perform, in their own unique manner, that wonderful song. Wonderful because -- though I don't always enjoy hearing it, I've heard it so much -- the song is a wonderful personal anthem. That's something we all need: a personal anthem. A song that praises our individuality; a mark of devotion to oneself. After all, they say you're going to have a helluva time loving anyone else unless you've first learned to love yourself, right?

This is not to replace your love for your God, or your spouse, or your family. I'm simply saying that we all need to give ourselves a bit more self-love at this time of year. (No, not that type of self-love !) Too many of us beat up on ourselves throughout the year, and then nearly destroy ourselves at year's end. No wonder there are so many suicides during the Holidays; the messages bombarding us are to Buy Buy Buy and to Give Give Give -- but what if you have nothing to give but love? If you have a dearth of that good stuff, then you'll have a bitch of a time spreading it around to your neighbors.

So be good to yourself, whether you're Christian, Pagan, Wiccan, Athiest, Hindu, Islamic, Mormon, Podcastin, or otherwise. Don't take the pills, they won't do you or anyone else any good; you'll simply miss out on the Next Big Thing (which may turn out to be Your Next Big Thing). Just do things your own way, singing that little hymn as you do so:
For what is a man,
What has he got?
If not himself,
Then he has naught.
To say the things,
He truly feels,
And not the words,
Of one who kneels.
The record shows,
I took the blows
And did it my way!

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Death by caffeine?

Sorry it's been so long since you've heard from me; I try to add content only when it's worthwhile (in my opinion), and I didn't feel I had much to say this past week or two. I've been focusing much of my free time on cleaning up VoyagerRadio's website. Making it more uniformly-designed, easier to navigate, adding my first feedback form, and whatnot. As I'm learning Perl, Python, and other scripting (programming) languages, you'll be seeing a variety of improvements to VoyagerRadio.com. (Right now I'm looking into adding a file upload feature, so that recording artists and others will have yet another way to get their work submitted to my Internet radio station.) Please let me know if there's anything you'd like to see added to VoyagerRadio, either the website or the podcast.

There will be some changes around here, as well. As you can (probably) see, I've added an audio player to Something That Happened, currently located right below the image of my mug. You can use it to listen to some of the audio I've been producing for various projects, much of which has not appeared on Something That Happened. (If you want to exclusively hear past Something That Happened audio, head to the Downloads area. Better yet, subscribe to the podcast! Here's that feed again:

http://somethingthathappened.com/podcast.xml

Given the choice, however, I would recommend subscribing to VoyagerRadio's podcast, Tempo of the Down, as it's the project I'm currently concentrating most of my time and effort on. The feed? Why, here it is! It's:

http://voyagerradio.com/podcast.xml


If the concept of subscribing to podcasts is still over your head, here's an easy way to get started. First,
  1. Make sure you have iTunes installed. iTunes is Apple Computer's digital audio application; it's free and easy to use. Get it here.
  2. Once you have iTunes, you're going to head to its Podcasts area. To do this, start the application and head to the iTunes Music Store. (You'll find a link to the Music Store on the left side of your screen.) Once in the store, click the Podcasts link you'll find in there. (You'll find a link to the Podcasts directory on the left - but not the farthest left of the app, since that's outside of the Music Store.)
  3. Now that you're in the Podcasts area of iTunes, you can either browse the directory of podcasts or run a search for a podcast you'd like to subscribe to. The search field is currently located below the Account box; find it and enter 'something that happened' or 'tempo of the down' and then click the tiny image of a magnifying glass. You'll be taken to my podcast's listing in the iTunes directory. From there, you simply need to click a Subscribe button to begin downloading a recent episode of my podcast. Remember, it's free to subscribe!

Once you're all set up with iTunes, you'll automatically receive podcasts in the future; just look for them in your Podcasts playlist (which you'll find on the far left, right under the Library link). You can listen to them from there, or you can easily transfer them to your iPod (if you have one; I transfer them to my iRiver MP3 Player to listen).
posted by Harold  11/05/2005 02:00:00 PM
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I once posted, in this space (this right column), the following:

If I had friends they would be listed here

That particular bit o' text, that silly and idiotic phrase, was repeated a dozen or two dozen or so times and was intended to be temporary. I had been working on a project -- a new layout for this blog -- and had intended for that text to be placeholder content. That is, the text was supposed to temporarily replace the content that had previously occupied this column (which was a list of links to friends -- that is, other blogs and web sites I linked to). I didn't know what content I was going to place into that (this) space, so I placed a bunch of duplicate phrases here as a placeholder so that I would remember to fill in this space again later.

At the same time, I thought I was being cute with the heading:

NEW & IMPROVED FRIENDS!

The fact remains: I still don't know what content to put here, in this column. Links again? Pictures? Video? Audio? Ads? Oh, hell no! It hasn't come to me yet, but I'm sure it will eventually, and when it does it'll come quick and (as usual) with consequences.