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Taking a train from NYC to Montréal. It’s a 9-10 hour ride, so you have to be creative to keep yourself entertained. The video isn’t much in itself, other for than the fact that it was shot, edited and scored on my Nokia N82 cell phone. Ahh, the possibilities are endless…
The song is Blah Blah Blah by Say Hi To Your Mom.
Yesterday I found a bunch of mix CDs I made before I even owned an mp3 player of any sorts. I played this particular one on a drive to downtown, it’s called #7 (yes, I numbered them - #1 I think was a mix tape) but it might as well be called “The early days of podcasting”. Tracklist:
A BBQ with friends, in a minute.
The song is Struttin’, by Tryad, under a Creative Commons license
Doing dishes while listening to Croncast. You need to click on that link and go listen, it’s one of the funniest podcasts out there.
For some reason, I had this done a few weeks ago but I never got around to posting it. Some vlog I have, eh?
While in chile, we met a really nice guy from New Zealand who was paragliding across south america with his fiancee. They were taking a friend for her first flight, and they asked us if we wanted to tag along.
The video is in 640×480, but the Blip.tv player resizes it to 320×240. Which is a good thing, as the larger one wouldn’t fit on this site. The feed has the full size video.
Song is Ana Said (heavy with hurt) by Rick Temporao
Hi. Welcome back. Excuse the mess, this blog has been unattended for several months now, but now once again you get to enjoy a breathtaking display of literature by yours truly. Ok, it’s more like a few words coughed into my keyboard, which I’m hoping will make any sense, but I know they most likely would make all my english teachers curl into a ball and cry like newborns.
What better time than 4 in the morning to clear the cobwebs from the Wordpress backend and drop a few lines here, eh?. Specially since I have to be up in a few hours, and preferably not looking like I wish I was still in dreamland. But for some odd reason I felt the urge to bring this blog back from the dead now. I guess I’m just weird like that.
I spent last weekend (a long one, 4 days) in Chile. Holy mother of god was it a fun fun fun trip! Me and a friend spent two crazy days in the city of Valparaíso, where we partied with crazy hostel people from around the world (mostly north america really) and walked up ridiculously steep hills to see Pablo Neruda’s house. That cop wasn’t kidding when he said “but you want to take a cab up there!”. The remaining 2 days we spent in Santiago, where even more hills awaited us. We decided to walk up or down most of them. You’d think we were freaking masochists. But at least we also met a really nice fellow from New Zealand who just happened to be paragliding across south america. He and his fianceé were taking a friend for her first flight, and they asked us if we wanted to tag along. Hmm, let me think… DUH!!. I love that sort of crazy experiences.
I also got to introduce my friend to the Starbucks iced white chocolate mocha. We picked up two large ones (large as in really big, not as in the stupid Starbucks cup size names) at the airport, and I’m now thinking it may have been a bit too much, as we boarded the plane in a sugar-rush induced giggles fit. We were like stoned schoolgirls, only smellier and gnarlier and… nothing like schoolgirls really. This incident made my friend come up with the name Mocha loca, and you can imagine how much that silly thing made us laugh.
There are more pics on my Flickr, and there are some videos that I may use to bring the vlog back to life as well. Could you start seeing some more regular activity on this website? Maybe, just maybe…
Back in June I had the chance to see the french and english side of the canadian national holidays: the Fête nationale in St Eustache, Québec, and Canada Day in Ottawa, Ontario. On this video: Neil, Cat and Bob
Technorati Tags: vlog, Fête Nationale, Canada Day, Neil Gorman, CatFishShow, Bob Goyetche
Sailing on a saturday afternoon. The song is “All I’ve Become” by Launch The Ships
The home page of this website shows most of my online activity, but the RSS feed was lagging behind; it only showed the blog posts. Both Flickr and Del.icio.us provide RSS feeds, so how hard could it be to mix the three in one big feed? Turns out not at all, thanks to Yahoo Pipes
I had heard of the service but never tried it. I never really had a use for it. I have to say the interface is extremely cool. Being a visual guy I was very impressed with how you can manage your feeds easily as a diagram, pipes included!. What I did was the following:
I wanted to do an extra step, adding the link URL to the description on the del.icio.us feed, but I couldn’t find a way to do that from within Pipes. I probably could with an extra step (maybe run it through Feedburner first?) but I don’t want it to get too complicated.
So if you notice some glitches on this feed it’s because I did all this. It should be pretty seamless though.
Edit: the only problem is that the feed title links to my Yahoo Pipes page instead of my website. I think you can change that on feedburner, but I can’t find it (anyone?). If I can’t fix this I think I’ll have to drop Pipes and use only Feedburner to merge my feeds. For now it’ll be pretty much the same, but I’m planning to add another feed in the future and it would be tricky withouth Pipes.
Technorati Tags: Yahoo Pipes, Feedburner, RSS feed, RSS, RSS merge
