Not My Cup of Tea Either

Well, I recently got in touch with a very intelligent person. Kevyn B. is the one who originally posted the wonderful video in Tribute to our mutual friend Lenworth (See my previous post) Kevyn and his wife have a very inspiring Blog called 'The Best Life Ever'. They are amazingly upbeat people with a fantastic outlook on life, in truth reading their blog was what originally inspired me to write my own. Well Keyvn recently wrote about how he has decided to stop saying he hates things and instead say that these things are "not his cup of tea". Now I am very guilty of the 'H' word myself so I think I will take Kevyns advice and do the same.

Thanks for the heads up Kevyn... life is too short to go around Hating stuff.

On a totally different subject... this most definitely IS my cup of (steeped) tea, and I love rolling up the Rim even though I hardly ever win. LOL

Lenworth Chapman 1967 - 2005

Well You Tube let me down. My Friend Lenworth Chapman passed away suddenly in 2005, He would have been 42 this year. He had a lot of friends because he was a great guy. One of them posted a really touching video on You Tube with some nice clips and pictures all to the Gordon Lightfoot song 'Beautiful'. Well in its infinite wisdom YouTube decided that they needed to remove the audio of this Tribute video due to copyright infringement. Now don't get me wrong, understand people copyright their creations to protect their intellectual property and ensure that no one get rich on their backs. But lets face it, this video was not hurting anyone, and for that matter, it introduced me to this song which I had not heard before and like very much.

All that being said, the main reason YouTube annoyed me was the fact that the Audio on this tribute video contained more than just the Gordon Lightfoot song. There were a number of clips of my late friend speaking and hearing his voice was wonderful, but these were also removed when YouTube disabled the audio on the clip.

Well as luck would have it, the first time I saw the video I saved it to my harddrive and with a little work I was able to remove the offending copywritten material, while still leaving the speaking parts of Lenworth and then I did a cover of the same song behind it all. Admittedly it is not as good as Gordon Lightfoot, and I couldn't remove all traces of the original audio so it doubles up a couple of times but I don't think Lenworth would mind too much.

Please note that I am not commenting on Mr. Lightfoot himself, I am sure that he would not have objected to his song being on this tribute. My belief is that YouTube is simply being over-zealous in its actions. (By the way, there are still a number of Gorden Lightfoot videos of this song on YouTube so removing it from my friends memorial really makes no sense at all.)

Sorry for the long post, here is the video:

The Weekend

TGIF finally the weekend has arrived. I have been so tired this week... I just want to lie in bed all weekend. Oh well, that isn't gonna happen as we have skating tomorrow. With luck I will get to bed early at least! BONUS has arrived so that will definely help. Life is good.

Here is a pic, not really that recent but cute and it shows Sydney doing what I wish I was doing... chilling in bed!

Even more reasons for living! Making Contact!

Finding old friends. Well recently I have been catching up with old friends on Facebook. Initially I only signed up to chat to my family but I have started finding lots of people that I grew up with. Finding Bruce was great and we have shared some good memories, caught up and I managed to get ahold of some pics and videos from those long ago times. In the last little while I have found even more school mates on Facebook and it is great fun to see what they are up to and check out how they changed and stayed the same.
Life is sweet. :)

Also there is this picture of Rovin at my work for no reason at all, other than it makes me laugh. Lovin' the headphones!

Old Tyme Dancing Girls!

Here's a little video I put together from the footage of my daughter at her School Assembly. This actually is the menu for the DVD I made. I thought it was pretty good, hope you like it!

Where's Charlie Chaplin when you need him eh?

Sydney's a Star

Last Friday I took the day off to go and see my little pumpkin dance at her school assembly. She did great! Take a look!

Unfortunatly just a few days later she was sick (caught it from her Brother who was down with it all weekend) It's been a bad year so far for colds and flu, I haven't cleaned up so much puke in years (but that's another story) On the bright side it will be spring soon enough. The Ground hog says 6 more weeks of winter but I am going to cross my fingers and think positive.

TTYL