Today’s my first Blog Anniversary!

Check here for my first post covering the rally in support of the Danish Government at the Danish Embassy here in DC, organized by Christopher Hitchens.

It was during all the Mohammed Cartoons meshuggas. I had just bought my first camera … a Sony CyberShot 7.2 MegaPixel (which has a video function as well as taking high resolution photos), and I trotted down to the Embassy to check it out and lend my own support.

The video of Christopher Hitchens is at the bottom of the post, so keep scrolling. In between you’ll see photos of both Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan who attended the rally.

I’ll repost the video here, too:

Seems like more than a year. What a great time.

Michelle Malkin kindly featured the post and off I went…this year’s promising to be just as interesting. And then there’s the election. Heh.

I still use the Sony for most of my stills and some video … now I’m generally using a Canon Elura 100 for most of the videos and a still-photo every now and then, though the resolution isn’t great (compared with the Sony) when used for photos.

Video: Christopher Hitchens

This was a video I made on February 24, 2006 in front of the Danish Embassy in Washington DC. We were meeting together to express solidarity with Denmark and free-speech during the “muslim cartoon” insanity. At the end of the rally, Hitchens got up to give a short address and I decided to test the video setting on my new Sony MegaPixel.

I posted the video and it quickly spread around the net … it was my first attempt at “videoblogging” and, luckily, I hit a home-run.

I’ve finally given up on Google Video and am now, one by one, transferring all of my archived videos over to YouTube.

I don’t know what I was thinking … that when Google purchased YouTube they would somehow merge their databases? Perhaps that’s in the works but I certainly haven’t been notified. As it now stands, YouTube is the standard for web-video and that isn’t likely to change any time soon. That’s where all the viewership is and all the action.

Funny, when I made this video … just February of this year … YouTube didn’t even exist.