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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!

Friday, March 16, 2007

Been posting commentary a bit more often here lately, rather than narratives; hope you don't mind. Here's an item I should probably be mentioning on my blog and video podcast Video Harold, but I want folks to see the video I've got posted there before I begin resuming my text posts.



NewTeeVee reports the addition of Vlip to the personal webcam community offerings already out there. My question is, why did the new Internet video sharing service, Vlip, select a name so close to one of their established competitors, Blip? Is it because they hope to be confused with Blip, a very well-constructed website/service?



Name aside, I'm going to be optimistic about the service, which I've now registered for and am later going to be delving into. It's always exciting for me to learn about the launch of a new web video service. Okay, maybe not always; perhaps this whole online video craze is already getting old for some of us living on the cutting edge. When I say us, though, I don't really mean me. I'm not bored with online video yet, and perhaps never will be; there's alot of good stuff out there, mixed in with the bad, and I'm interested in seeing how video migrates to mobile devices.



I'm rambling. Let's get back to Vlip. So I'm not sure how the service works yet, and I don't have the time to check it out tonight, but if you can find my member site over on Vlip.com -- if I have one, that is -- then make sure to vlip me off, vuckers!



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posted by Harold  3/16/2007 11:49:00 PM
Comments:
Glad you asked about the "vlip" name, because I thought of it personally a long long time ago and got the URL and trademark a long long time ago. I chose that name for our new active and interactive online video community for many reasons -- (1) "v" as in "video" and "lip" as in "clip"); (2) "vlip" is active,just like our new active and interactive online video community (i.e., you can "vlip it"); (3) "ip" of "vlip" is for "internet protocol"; (4) "lip" is for speaking (i.e., be seen, get heard by speaking your mind); (5) "lip" is for attitude, since the site hopes to have some; and (6) the logo is green, as in "go", because it is easy to use. One final thing, Vlip.com is nothing like blip.tv or any other online video destination. So, check it out and let me know what you think.
# posted by Blogger Peter D. Csathy : 8:13 AM
 
Thank you for posting your comments, Peter. It appears you've given a good deal of thought to the naming of your service. That reflects well on vlip (Vlip?), for if you have given as much thought to your service then it will be worth looking into.

Also, since you've commented, I'm going to fire up my PC (which has enough CPU and RAM strength to be able to handle video, unlike the 90's-era PowerBook I'm typing this from) and test Vlip out so that I don't forget to...Thanks again!
# posted by Blogger Harold J. Johnson : 11:56 AM
 
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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.