Note vis Video

I am testing a new and (in some ways) improved Flash player, and I don’t know how long I’ll have it in place. It seems to be playing the files as well as the older version, but the preview frames aren’t working and it doesn’t fix the progress bar problem seen with some of the clips that are sourced from YouTube.

Lately, YouTube has gotten terribly slow, and its videos are prone to being pulled, so for now I’ll download them, and Google’s too, and post them myself.

P.S. Problem with the progress bar was, as I originally stated, with the video itself. I’ve figured out how to fix it and will do that now.

P.P.S. OK, I’ll let this go for now. Back to the old player.

Cingular AT&T

What lamebrain at AT&T decided to announce the Cingular name will be retired, the very same week that Apple has introduced the iPhone, which is being promoted with the Cingular logo?

It’s the AT&T brand that should be retired. “Cingular” is one of those mushy, meaningless words, like “Camry”, but how descriptive is “American Telephone and Telegraph”?

Storm Trooping

I stopped paying attention to Bush’s speech about his latest plans for Iraq after he said this, because it’s the only part that matters.

[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/JAN07/BushSpeech.mp3]

Going door-to-door to gain the trust of Baghdad residents? Don’t think so. There’s going to be a clamp-down. The residents of Baghdad are already terrified to leave their homes, and now they’ll be terrified in their homes. A lot of civilians are going to get killed.