6 posts tagged “blogging”

There's something amiss when one-liners start becoming the only posts I might see on my Pownce feed every other day now. I'm getting pretty frustrated with people trying to integrate all of their micro-blogging profiles to make it easier for themselves to cross-post. The whole point of the various services are that they have unique ways (for the most part) to display and update your information.

Different types of information are starting to cross-pollinate across the following web services and are seriously having me consider pulling myself out of Pownce because of it.

Twitter is the very example of micro-blogging with its simple RSS accessible feeds for its users. It's fairly easy to get involved with others through @replies (where one posts the at symbol before a username somewhere in the post to get the attention of another user) and their simple social networking scheme.

Pownce is a richer Twitter in many ways that notes can be threaded as well as specialized notes that may have events (complete with iCal event formatting), links to other websites, and even the ability to upload files to your profile to share with your friends. The lack of RSS feeds in Pownce may throw off the Twitterholic and tumblr users, but for bloggers and casual Internet people, Pownce may be the choice for them.

I just wish they would all keep themselves seperate and not cross back and forth over each other with websites like helltxt.com and so on.

Logging into Vox is generally exciting every so often because one of my neighbors posts. But when I find this particular link...

Hey, Vox.

Don't worry, I'm not going to move to WordPress' online blog hosting again. I enjoy you so much. You're such a great platform for serving and publishing my thoughts when they just so happen to be longer than one-hundred-sixty characters or so. For those moments when I cannot bring myself to voice my feelings or condense the thoughts to the barebones on my status, you are there and you always serve up what I give you to publish.

Don't be jealous because I've been to college lately. Yeah, it's only community college, but it's better than nothing. I'm working towards an actual goal--an Associates in Engineering--and I'm happy for the stress it's given my life. I think it has really been the finger int he dam of escaping energy that I have been misusing for these last two years. I wish I could have fixed my situation sooner, but I think that sometimes life simply serves up a new variety in spite of the variousness (and since that probably isn't a word, forgive me) that it already offers.

Don't be jealous that I am in the defining relationship of my life, and that I am happy no matter how things may be one day to the next. That I'm happy at least seeing her smile and that I have a chance to make her mine for the rest of my life. I know it's not been long enough with regards to a traditional relationship, but the feelings just click with her. Whether I misfire with the way that I mean things or the way that they come out, I know that deeper than those failures that an understanding exists between us, and that any misunderstanding will not last forever.

Don't be alarmed because of all the physical wrenching that the stress puts on my body, especially my shoulders--rather, be understanding that while my body is the weakest link in my physical experience, I know that it will not always be like that.

Looking back at what I just wrote, it's sort of amusing to think that I had merely just ranted my way on with the rest of this entry with my eyes closed, touch typing at the keyboard. I just think the thought in my head and then figure out the correct way to type it into the text box, and in the next instant it would appear to have brought my ideas to you, Vox.

Don't worry, Vox. I won't forget you.

Here is a video that I made earlier this afternoon regarding my lack in previous vidoes from the week before. I had only posted links to these on Pownce, but I think I might also start cross-posting these videos to my Vox. I know it's not the greatest use for the text-centeterd blogging service that is Vox, but Vox does integrate into other forms of social multimedia services such as YouTube.

I picked YouTube because I was always curious at how others started their own personal representation of themselves on YouTube with respect to how they would have conducted themselves, how they might post a rather informal message to people, or even begin recording responses to all of the videos that they saw on the website's constantly evolving index.

Perhaps it won't turn out to be a bad move. If there are any cooler sources to host, record and aggragate your own video from as USB connected webcam, please message me on Vox or through Pownce!

Until then, take care Vox. I really do miss you.

Well, today, I have a little plan to send a small care package to my girlfriend. She had been telling me about a certain  lip balm she ran out of that she uses and enjoys, and while talking recently, she joked about sending it through the mail to her at college. Granted, the surprise of actually sending her the  care package is gone, I still wanted to send it to her anyway. I wonder if she reads the blog here, to actually see what I am doing today.

The only issue with this is that I would have to utilize the United States Postal Service, which has garnered some faith from me in the recent years, but not enough for me to stop being paranoid that something will happen to what I send through its system. I am not sure if I could send it by another carrier without having someone sign for it, and I am not sure how her school will handle that portion of delivery, so I think I will put it through USPS on some sort of raised priority level.

I was Vox Group surfing last night and found a group called Self-Portrait Thursdays and decided I would join it. Basically, the premise of the meme is to snap a picture of yourself every Thursday at some point in the day and upload it to the group. I believe the meme originated from a Flickr user group, but Vox really needs a good meme besides the Question of the Day and the [this is good] tags. So, this Thursday, I will be taking a picture with my cellphone--since it has the highest res camera I own--and posting it to the group! Perhaps I will use it as a new icon, perhaps it will simply lie in obscurity.

Also: damned if it did not take enough time out of my life to finish, but I completed the campaign of Company of Heroes last night. Granted its story had some minor spoilers after the part where I had played last, the game play simply turned into a multiplayer skirmish with the computer controlling the Axis army at one point. It was still a fun game regardless, but I think I am about ready to upgrade to the expansion pack which recently came out.

Well, with several of the gaming groups that I was a part of seeming to have lost quite a bit of things going for them all at the same time, I sort have followed suit insomuch that I have been not following through on the audio postings that I have been promising myself to make. A little bit of issue with the podcasting and finding subjects (even finding uninterrupted time) to compose and record said podcast has exploded into a plethora of failures on my part. Perhaps I should just get back to actually writing my opinion, giving worth to the blogs I start and stop producing in time.

I actually picked up a reincarnated version of RF Online, and I have to say, it is really fun to play for a free RPG. Codemasters has put the game back up and seems to be invested in localizing updates for the game. There is a minor balance issue inherent in the game and luckily for me, the race I picked out exhibits the weak side of this balance issue the most.

Regardless, it seems that I will be withdrawing from gaming so much. So, what else do I have after gaming? An opinion and a life, I could say.

Oh, and some music recommendations for those looking for a change of pace.

Thrice's 'The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II: Fire & Water' is a great introduction to how experimental the reformed California punk band makes music that sounds refreshing and unique among countless others in the similar upbringing. The album goes back and forth between songs that find a basis on the subjects of either fire or water. This is the first of two albums that Thrice has produced with a concept with the new style of music composition that they originally published in the album 'Vheissu'. Four stars.

I had been posting over at WordPress on a very simple log and had gotten in the habit, but sort of lost it again. I had really been thinking about podcasting again, and VOX was the only platform I really had success with that in.

Time to start over? I think so.

My first task: deleting all my old posts.