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Just a quick note for any and all of you who’ve ever posted videos on YouTube (I have). You can change the thumbnail that displays for each video on your user page and in search results, et cetera. Go to the page of the video you want to change, and click “edit video.” At the top of the next page, you’ll see the three thumbnails it takes from your video with the middle one highlighted. If the left or right one is better… choose that instead! It doesn’t give you much option, but it helps out if your middle frame was something fuzzy and indiscriminate.

Also note it took about 24 hours for my changes to show up last time… and you can only choose the thumbnail after your video is processed and live.

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The Internet is huge. I mean, the Internet is probably bigger than Earth, if you really start thinking about it. Heck, the Internet is probably more like the Universe… so amazingly big and unending (well, most of the time) and getting bigger all the time. It’s impossible to see the entire thing. It’s impossible to know where it begins and where it starts. It’s enormous.

At the same time, just like the world we live in… it’s also incredibly small (and if anyone starts singing that Disney song, I’ll cry). No really, hear me out. I was thinking about this earlier. Before the Internet, it was very easy to forget about people. Maybe later, you’ll have a fleeting thought… I wonder what ever happened to What’s-his-face?  You’d shrug, and get on with your day. You were probably busy milking cows or whatever it was we did to amuse ourselves before the Internet.

Now? I wonder what ever happened to What’s-his-face? Well, I’ll Google him.  Oh, he’s got his own website now! Hasn’t been updated in a while… so I’ll go search him on MySpace. Oh look… there he is! Man, he’s gotten cute. Really cute. Wonder if he’d still remember me after — oh, five or six years? 

Boom! Now you’re history’s right up in your face again, which could be good or bad, depending on the situation. No, nothing prompted this, particularly, besides Meli having fun with MySpace searches the other day. It’s just weird how the Internet doesn’t let you forget… both the good and the bad.

Well, it’s back to the classroom! College really isn’t coming through right now. It’s really frustrating… and I’m sure I could be doing a million things better. I’m not going to dwell on that right now.

Besides that, none of the colleges around here have a great web design program (most don’t have one at all), and there’s not even any art institutes, like Andrew suggested. Anyhow, the local tech center (Gordon Cooper) has online classes… and quite a few that are on web and graphic design. Hooray! That means no fussing with my work schedule (I really do like working days) and no transportation issues (another story entirely). Classes start tomorrow. I got to bypass all of the way, way easy courses (Shawna, they teach you to use tables and iframes and <FONT> tags… oh my!).

I was a nerd in school. I’m really excited about starting this tomorrow. Six weeks! I’ll be having a blast. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow.

Edit: I “attended” my first class today… and really enjoyed it. It was informative and didn’t assume you were an idiot. I think this will be a fun six weeks!