Video Podcast #2 – University, Apartment, Colchester

Huzzah! One of the advantages of having internet at home is that I could (more easily) upload the second in our bizarre and on-going serious of video podcast/slide show thingies. This has three major sections, featuring the University of Essex, in and around our new apartment, and Colchester. It has been (correctly) pointed out that I talk too much, so I think we may leave me out of the narration next time :-).

I wasn’t very happy with the compression last time, so I played with generating a higher quality file. The quality definitely is improved, but it takes longer to download and play as a consequence. I also had trouble uploading the larger file to YouTube, so I switched to Google Videos. Google’s software was much easier to use, and actually worked; YouTube, however, clearly has quite a lot more features (many useful) once you have the video uploaded. I also generated a 640×480 version that’s much nicer (if even bigger), but when I uploaded that Google clearly resized it on me because it still displays at 320×240. I might just put the larger one up on our web site and see how that goes.

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Thank the gods – we finally have internet at home

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After way too much futzing, and over an hour (cumulative) on hold with BT(!) I finally got the !$&*!* internet working here at the apartment. Grrrr…

Zen has been really cool, fast, and helpful. BT’s been a right pain in the butt, and has probably cost us a week. Then tonight, when the line was finally live, it turned out that our Jurassic wireless base station didn’t want to talk to our new ADSL modem. It was so incredibly frustrating to be so close (I could get on-line if I directly connected to the ADSL modem, but not the wireless), and being tired didn’t help. Eventually, though, I hacked a few of the settings and got the darn boxes to talk to each other.

So, I suspect you’ll hear a lot more from everyone now that we can surf at home. I’m sure WeatherGirl will be a lot happier now that she doesn’t have to walk into town to use Internet at the library :-).

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