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I recently uploaded a few more video blog entries to YouTube. You can always find my latest video blog entries there via my channel page, of course, but here are the most recent four on one page for your convenience.
I made my fifth video blog entry a few weeks ago on a night when I was feeling rather displeased with this semester's classes (November 7, 2007), so I suppose you might consider it a bit of a rant, although a mellow one. I ran into some technical difficulties under Windows Vista, so I was not able to upload it right away, but after downgrading my workstation to Windows XP, the Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder worked for this one. If you are a university instructor and feeling particularly sensitive when you come across this one, you might want to save yourself some potential offense and skip it.
I boosted the audio volume in the following entries because it tends to be rather low in videos recorded with my camera. Unfortunately, the only software I had available to adjust the audio volume within video files was Windows Movie Maker 5.1, which does not support most common video file formats and options or any of the ones YouTube recommends (see here and here for details), so the visual quality is lower than it should be. The trade-off is not ideal, but it does seem practical.
It seems both to others and to me as though I rarely sleep, but the other morning, I recorded visual evidence that I slept at least once recently.
In this entry, I introduce my seven-month-old kitten, Milla, who has decided to run around naked. Can you say "naked black pussy"? Oooooooooooh yeeeeeaaaaahhhh! I can say it and I do so in this video, so mind where you play it if those words are likely to offend nearby prudes, humorless drones, or others who may cause trouble for you.
In my eighth entry, it's Friday night and I am single again, so naturally I am home with my cat. We open, assemble, and try out a cat toy of a sort—a cat-sized play tent.
I use both organized Web standards such as HTML 4.01 Strict, which has been a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation since 1999, and de facto Web standards such as Robots Exclusion and Flash Player (for which Adobe regularly publishes ubiquity data here, here, and here). If you are using a graphical Web browser, but no video appears for you in this journal entry (it contains four video blog entries), it probably means at least one of four things: that your Web browser is obsolete (i.e., that it does not support valid HTML 4.01 Strict), that you do not have the Flash Player installed (you can check here), that the version of the Flash player that you have installed is obsolete (you can check both your version and the current versions for several platforms here), or that the video is somehow being blocked (e.g., via a browser extension such as FlashBlock or a user style sheet).
