Mortaine’s Blog

Click here for the movie! (MPEG-4 format) (22 MB!)

Today’s video comes with a size and technology warning. The size warning is that it’s big: 22 MB. After editing as much as I could, I got it down to just under 8 minutes, but that’s a long vlog for me.

And there’s a tech note on this one. I used the H.264 codec to create this file. What that means for you is that, if you use a reasonably recent Mac, you’ll be able to watch the movie. If you watch on a Windows machine, however, you will need to make sure you have upgraded to QuickTime 7 before you can watch this movie. Unfortunately, that’s also going to put iTunes on your machine– they’re bundled together now.

However, I did test this on a Windows XP box with QuickTime 7, and it worked flawlessly. If you had any trouble playing the file, please let me know by leaving a comment and tell me what went wrong (video wouldn’t play, but audio did, or no audio, or nothing, or it crashed) as well as what operating system you have (Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT?, Mac OS 9?) and which version of QuickTime you have installed. I honestly won’t try to troubleshoot if you have Windows and anything less than QT 7, because I know they don’t work together.

If the filesize was just too big for you to download, it’d be nice to know that, too, so I can keep it in mind when I post longer videos. Thanks in advance for any feedback you want to offer!

Technorati tags: geotagged geovlogged vlog videoblog

Technorati Tags: geotagged, geovlogged, videoblog, vlog

Zoot is hanging in there. I keep trying to get him to eat a pea, so he can flush the bloat out, but it’s not happening.

The other fish are doing fine. The bossy girl now has a name: Tinkerbell. Thanks, Mom!

Have enough work to get through January now. Thank you, world! Seriously, it’s a big relief to know that Wednesday morning will dawn with a full day’s work ahead of me.

I am applying for the carpool lane sticker for my hybrid. She deserves it.

I didn’t do much today, yet I did quite a bit. Met with someone re: having enough work for January. Cleaned up my desk and office quite a bit, though not enough. Applied for the carpool stickers. Bought lightbulbs at Petsmart for the tanks, plus some paper at OfficeMax, cause we were out. Cleaned out my car– probably the biggest thing I did today, actually. I ordered a bunch of field guide books at Barnes & Noble (thanks, Dad!) for the trip.

Tomorrow’s goals, I think, will be to write a chapter and take down the Christmas tree.

We have rain all this weekend. It’s kind of bumming, cause we need to take down the Christmas lights, and I don’t crawl around on rooftops when they’re wet, and I won’t let John do so either.