Just a few minutes ago I heard tiny howls coming from down stairs. I’m trying not to reward that behavior with attention, so I slowly peaked over the upstairs banister and saw little Mimi’s jowls puckered up in a tiny “O” just howling. I shot this video earlier today of Mimi exercising her newly found bark as she meets Saphy Waffy Babowski.

As you now know, Perez Hilton’s channel was suspended on YouTube for alleged copyright violations. I did some digging and found this video of Perez Hilton being confronted by a photographer for even more alleged copyright violation. Watch as Perez demonstrates a typical attitude among some bloggers on use of copyrighted material.

Hollywood gossip Perez Hilton’s YouTube account has been suspended. Hilton says YouTube removed a Liza Minnelli video he posted on Monday because of copyright violation. Perez posted this video under a different account in response.

“I’m going to try not to get angry, or upset or raise my voice because thankfully I’ve already done enough of that without the camera rolling. My YouTube account was suspended. I’ve emailed YouTube, but I’ve yet to hear from any person there. I’ve just got an automated email from them.

Apparently, the Liza Minnelli video that I posted on Monday was in violation of someone’s copyright which is really confusing to me because the person who took the Liza Minnelli is a reader of my website gave me permission to use the clip and I still have mutliple emails from that person sending me the video and giving me permission to use it.

The only thing I can think of is someone at Liza Minnelli’s record company was upset that this video showing her being drunk or on drugs allegedly is out there and they wanted to get it removed from YouTube. Well, as a result my account was suspended.”
[Perez Hilton - YouTube - 12-18-07]

UPDATE 5:12p.m. - Now this video has been removed by YouTube with the following statement in its place: “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.”

UPDATE 12-19-07 7:44a.m. - In part of the video I transcribed above (no longer available on YouTube), Perez Hilton claimed no one ever complained about copyright violations before the Liza Minnelli incident. This is not true. I alerted Perez Hilton on two violations prior to his account being suspended and got no response. One was for posting an entire segment of ABC’s daytime talk show The View. The other was for using Macy Gray’s music over a photo montage of his new dog.

UPDATE 12-20-07 - 2:49p.m. - Perez Hilton has returned to YouTube.

I took Mimi and Trudy to the vet this morning for their third round of shots. Trudy weighs in at little over 3 pounds. Mimi is a little over 2 pounds. I learned from the doctor that Mimi has a health issue. He said there is a 40% chance that her soft spot on her skull would completely heal. That means either she’ll have to walk around with a chihuahua sized helmet on, or we’ll have to baby her for the rest of her life. We’ll know more when she’s about 4 months old.

Today…

The word was created by Jorn Barger to describe what he was doing with his pioneering Robot Wisdom web page.  The word was an abbreviation for the “logging” of interesting “web” sites that Mr Barger featured on his regularly updated journal.
[Weblogs rack up a decade of posts - BBC - 12-17-07]

or a few days from now…

We are approaching a decade since the first blogger — regarded by many to be Jorn Barger — began his business of hunting and gathering links to items that tickled his fancy, to which he appended some of his own commentary. On Dec. 23, 1997, on his site, Robot Wisdom, Mr. Barger wrote: “I decided to start my own webpage logging the best stuff I find as I surf, on a daily basis,” and the Oxford English Dictionary regards this as the primordial root of the word “weblog.”
[Happy Blogiversary - Wall Street Journal - 07-14-07]

or back in April.

Created by the US web guru Dave Winer, Scripting News is sometimes described as the first modern blog, though the term “weblog” was not used in the early days. Flickering into life on April 1 1997, Scripting News is still going strong and is credited with helping popularise RSS and podcasting, too.
[Blogs turn 10 - Gaurdian - 04-07-07]

I peaked out the peep hole not knowing who would be ringing the doorbell this early. It was a little girl on a bicycle with a bag in her hand.

“Here’s your cookie dough,” She said handing me the bag. I vaguely remember Vince telling me he had bought it as part of some school fundraiser.

Vince made these cookies for the Christmas party. An hour earlier we weren’t sure we were going. I had called Mike with regrets. Noah was staying with us through Monday while they work on the vocals for his new album. I didn’t want to impose, but Mike was very kind and said to bring him along. So we did.

I buy Christmas cards every year. There is something magical about getting a card in the mail, and it’s easy to do. So why the cards end up in a growing collection of cards that are never sent keeps me staring blankly into the foggy mirror of life.

Anyways, I tried to get a few out this year. Some made it, and some didn’t. Merry Christmas.