So this is going to be another ranting post. And this time it’s not because of the train. It’s YouTube. The Google property that brings so much joy to people, and so much pain to university Internet Service Providers.

While I could complain about YouTube being a total time waster, I am greatful for that. My problem is getting the video there.

So, I’ve just started video blogging (exciting!), uploaded my first video from university, and I have made my second. I was attempting to finish, upload and annotate this new video yesterday before I left for a friend’s party. I started the long upload process (120mb = 1.5 hours on 1500/256 or whatever-speed-Telstra-wants-to-give-me-below-that connection), and it failed at 99%! OMG!

So I started it again. A bit over an hour later, it said done like a dinner (well, successful, but it’s cool to mix it up a bi)t. So I drive to the party, borrow a friends connection. No video.

WHAT?

Come on YouTube! I don’t have all the bandwidth in the world to use! Don’t ever lose my video again! Don’t lie and tell me your done uploading and then not show the video! I’m going to have to start all over again when I get home! Thank you YouTube!

When I get it up there, please check out my video and get involved in the process. Send me a video response, first person to will be awesome forever because you’ll be my first (YouTube reply that is!). View all my (one) video on YouTube, just search for my user name: smartypants120 (pretentious, I know; I should work on that).