Busted by YouTube
January 30th, 2009
A little while back I posted an insanely cute video of my baby daughter taking some of her first steps on YouTube. The quality was pretty bad because I took it with my camera, so I spiced the vid up a bit with an intro title, outro message, and one minute of music; namely the song “Tree Hugger” by Antsy Pants and Kimya Dawson. The song is on the soundtrack to the movie “Juno”.
Being a musician myself, I know it’s not 100% kosher to take copyrighted material and slab it onto a little YouTube action. Still, given the high-scale rampant copyright violation constantly taking place on YouTube, I hardly expected to have my little video muted by the powers that be.
To put this into perspective, my video has 60 odd views. It contains no hidden advertisements or agenda. I know this is YouTube trying to cover its ass, but I think this is going a bit too far.
Please subscribe to my feed.Filed under: Computers, Music
A Few Seconds Remaining
January 19th, 2009
So I’m pretty sure that Mac OS X is the best consumer operating system and that the best web browser for OS X (and Windows for that matter) is Firefox. I don’t know what I would do with the ability to add on extensions such as NoScript, Firebug, and Download Statusbar. I recently stopped using Adblock Plus because it was getting in the way of certain pages working properly, but it’s also pretty nifty.
That being said, I’ve recently run into an extremely annoying bug which seems to so far be without a fix. About 70% of the time I try to download a file with Firefox the download hangs at 100%, or a “a few seconds remaining”. This has been happening for about one week now and is, as mentioned, very irritating.
Filed under: Computers, Travel
Of Vineyards and Dashed Dreams
January 13th, 2009
I recently came to the conclusion that my place in life was to start a vineyard and tend to it. I would care for each individual grape and produce small quantities of (hopefully) great wine. That’s not to say that I’m not hammering out a great living as a web content maestro, but I have felt the need to reconnect to the soil. Get my hands dirty.
Of course, not being independently wealthy, finances would play a role. We’re talking just a small scale operation here, no economies of scale, no mass production, no greed. I figured we’d go for production of less than 1000 bottles per annum. I’m actually in the process of house hunting, so I figured I’d look for a place a bit more remote with some suitable land for a micro-vineyard.
Filed under: Food, Safety, Science
