I started The Virtual Couch both on YouTube and here on Blogger in 2006 with the initial plan to stimulate my creative side. Sometimes life gets in the way and your plans get delayed a few years.
Fast forward six years and I have just completed a month of unbroken daily uploads to YouTube of my "60 Seconds on The Virtual Couch" project that was born on New Years Day, not as a new years resolution but more of a "what the heck, may as well give this a go" thought.
So after thirty-five videos (thus far) I am quite pleased at the results and the fact I've been able to maintain the momentum. Sometimes the videos I do are as much a surprise to myself as to whomever ends up watching.
I haven't really scripted or rehearsed much of the comedy skits I do, just start with an idea and ad-lib and hopefully something good ends up happening! Quite a few hit and miss videos to be honest, but a couple that even make me laugh when I watch them back.
So where to from here? Doing a video every day is a real challenge. Okay, let me re-phrase that as "doing an interesting and amusing video every day is a challenge". But life is about setting yourself goals and challenges and striving to achieve them.
Stay tuned, the Virtual Couch just may be a more interesting place to be this year.
Thanks to all those friends who do make an effort to watch my poor acting skills on a regular basis and provide feedback and encouragement it is certainly appreciated.
Feel free to join me daily on The Virtual Couch @ YouTube
Sunday, February 05, 2012
Saturday, July 09, 2011
Google+ : another social networking site
Finally the invitation from a friend worked and I joined the Google+ experiment. After GoogleWave and Google Buzz, perhaps Google+ will be the social networking success that Google has been aiming for in order to take on Facebook.
Is there room for yet another social networking website? Well, Myspace is more or less dead (I deleted my long dormant profile finally last month)and perhaps those with Android mobile 'phones will gravitate towards Google+
It certainly seems to have some more obvious and useful ways of sharing your information only with those who you want to via the concept of "circles" to which you add people (even those who are not yet on Google+). That seems to be a lesson learned from the clunky, bolted on privacy features of Facebook, so that is a tick from me.
Another nifty feature is the automatic 'upload' of pictures and videos from your 'phone (if enabled). These go into a private folder on Google+ which you can share afterwards (or not).
There is a few other interesting concepts I've yet to be able to test - "huddle" where you can gather a group to message together like in a chat room for instance.
The success and failure of the Google+ experiment will depend on how many friends adopt it and utilise it or see the need to.
Is there room for yet another social networking website? Well, Myspace is more or less dead (I deleted my long dormant profile finally last month)and perhaps those with Android mobile 'phones will gravitate towards Google+
It certainly seems to have some more obvious and useful ways of sharing your information only with those who you want to via the concept of "circles" to which you add people (even those who are not yet on Google+). That seems to be a lesson learned from the clunky, bolted on privacy features of Facebook, so that is a tick from me.
Another nifty feature is the automatic 'upload' of pictures and videos from your 'phone (if enabled). These go into a private folder on Google+ which you can share afterwards (or not).
There is a few other interesting concepts I've yet to be able to test - "huddle" where you can gather a group to message together like in a chat room for instance.
The success and failure of the Google+ experiment will depend on how many friends adopt it and utilise it or see the need to.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Posting by email on my phone.
So really this is just a test blog from my phone to see if it works okay.
Got to love modern technology.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
A tribute to those taken too soon
It has been a while, and quite a bit has happened in my life and in the world since I last wrote something here. On a news note, there has been widespread devastation and loss here in the state of Victoria in Australia where I live from the most terrible of bushfires. The final toll is yet to be tallied and the mourning has only just begun.
On a personal note, I am in a much more reflective mood of late due to not only this, but realising that it is the anniversary of the death of my cousin Raine. At just 21, she lost her fight to cancer and passed away in February 2008.
I remember knowing that she was not doing well in the days beforehand, and one particular day I actually took a full hours lunch break (unusual for me as I often work through) and sat by the river, a strange melancholy mood on me.
It was the next day she passed away.
The past few weeks I've not been so great either, and yesterday I went for a walk and sat by the river again, and wrote a poem. I didn't plan to write it about my cousin, and I didn't even realise that it was the exact anniversary of her death either. What's more is that when I finished the poem, on the very last line the pen ran out. This was a brand new pen that I'd received recently (not a dodgy biro either). Kind of spooky or maybe just a coincidence.
So here it is; dedicated to my cousin Raine and all those that have been tragically taken from us.
Four is the number of seasons,
A full cycle has just passed,
And still I'm seeking the reasons,
Why you had to go so fast,
Your life cut short so young,
So many things still to be done,
Too many songs left unsung,
A dull ache in my heart,
Where I still am grieving,
So here I am turning to art,
To help myself cope with your leaving,
I've said my goodbye,
My precious memories remain,
To move on now I must try,
Some smiles I have to regain.
On a personal note, I am in a much more reflective mood of late due to not only this, but realising that it is the anniversary of the death of my cousin Raine. At just 21, she lost her fight to cancer and passed away in February 2008.
I remember knowing that she was not doing well in the days beforehand, and one particular day I actually took a full hours lunch break (unusual for me as I often work through) and sat by the river, a strange melancholy mood on me.
It was the next day she passed away.
The past few weeks I've not been so great either, and yesterday I went for a walk and sat by the river again, and wrote a poem. I didn't plan to write it about my cousin, and I didn't even realise that it was the exact anniversary of her death either. What's more is that when I finished the poem, on the very last line the pen ran out. This was a brand new pen that I'd received recently (not a dodgy biro either). Kind of spooky or maybe just a coincidence.
So here it is; dedicated to my cousin Raine and all those that have been tragically taken from us.
Four is the number of seasons,
A full cycle has just passed,
And still I'm seeking the reasons,
Why you had to go so fast,
Your life cut short so young,
So many things still to be done,
Too many songs left unsung,
A dull ache in my heart,
Where I still am grieving,
So here I am turning to art,
To help myself cope with your leaving,
I've said my goodbye,
My precious memories remain,
To move on now I must try,
Some smiles I have to regain.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Abortion
Here in the Australian State of Victoria where I live, there is currently a bit of a hullabaloo going on over a simple legislative change involving removing the "crime" of abortion from the Crimes Act. It is a simple change because abortion is not prosecuted any more, as most rational & logical people realise, it is a personal health matter & nothing to do with government or crime against society.
On the news.com.au site, a reader by the name of "Lucy" posted the following opinion, which I think says it all quite succinctly.
"Any decision regarding a woman's body and/or her reproductive system should be made between her and her doctor and the two of them can work through their respective morals, beliefs and circumstances with the situation. None of us have the right to tell any other person what to do with their body. If you don't like the idea of abortion, don't have one. Let others make the decision for themselves."
Well said Lucy and let us hope the upper house members concur & pass the bill.
On the news.com.au site, a reader by the name of "Lucy" posted the following opinion, which I think says it all quite succinctly.
"Any decision regarding a woman's body and/or her reproductive system should be made between her and her doctor and the two of them can work through their respective morals, beliefs and circumstances with the situation. None of us have the right to tell any other person what to do with their body. If you don't like the idea of abortion, don't have one. Let others make the decision for themselves."
Well said Lucy and let us hope the upper house members concur & pass the bill.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
A blog for Deano
I wrote a whole blog for you Deano (offline) and now I went back and checked my diary entry for Rome, when I talked about losing my mobile 'phone and you left a comment "what about the 'phone".
So months later you've been chasing me up, and I realised that I had actually read that comment overseas and edited the entry to say what happened.
Re-read the Rome diary entry Deano!
Waking up tomorrow for 5am (body thinking it is 4am) is going to hurt!
So months later you've been chasing me up, and I realised that I had actually read that comment overseas and edited the entry to say what happened.
Re-read the Rome diary entry Deano!
:)
In other news, I've finally put something else up on my YouTube channel
Not going to make any promises, but will try for semi-regular updates there, as I have a few things on my mind to do.
Waking up tomorrow for 5am (body thinking it is 4am) is going to hurt!
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