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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, November 17, 2006


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"On a rainy day/In L.A...."
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posted by Harold  11/17/2006 06:25:00 PM | 2 Comments | Links to this post

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Thus begins the incident...
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posted by Harold  11/17/2006 01:40:00 PM | 0 Comments | Links to this post

Monday, November 06, 2006


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So I'm ready to begin posting video again. I recorded some video while on vacation in the state of Washington, but only managed to post two of my recordings to this site. Perhaps I'll post some more later. For now, here's a blast from the past -- something I discovered today while browsing my Gmini camcorder's archives. Surely, this has got to be worthy of a Vloggie...


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posted by Harold  11/06/2006 11:58:00 AM | 0 Comments | Links to this post

Saturday, November 04, 2006

If these words appear online (and in the proper format), then I may have just found the simplest way I've ever encountered of updating this blog. I'm using a software application called MarsEdit, which I've never before used.



"What's a blog?" you ask? If you're reading this sometime in the year 2006, then I can tell you -- with nearly absolute certainty -- that a blog is this thing you're currently reading. As I compose this message in the early days of November in 2006, I know that you're not reading these words out of a paperback book you're holding in your hands. You're sitting in front of some type of monitor connected either to your desktop computer or your laptop computer (or perhaps even your mobile phone), so I know (as well as you) that you're reading some type of website. (It's the format of this type of website that makes it a blog, differentiating it from other types of websites.)



However, if it's beyond 2006, I can't make any claims of knowing how these words are reaching you. If it's the year 2010, for example, it's just possible you're not even reading these words. Perhaps some type of artificial intelligence is reading these words aloud to you. Perhaps a gathering of hundreds is watching this text as it is displayed on a hillside monitor somewhere in the Gobi desert. Perhaps it's the year 3000, and a Harold Android toy is preaching this text to your home-schooled child. (Okay, I may be reaching a bit, there...)



Anyway, that's your lesson for today. There will be more words, more audio, and more video in the days to follow. In the years to follow? One can only imagine.

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posted by Harold  11/04/2006 08:28:00 PM | 0 Comments | Links to this post

Businesses in Huntsville, Alabama

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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.