I've been looking at YouTube videos

You know, YouTube videos are a right mix of insane to crazy to just unbelievable. It's hard to imagine how some of them ever get past the Google censors. Those that consist of content where the 'actors' are performing crazy, death-defying stunts are really quite gruesome to watch, and I believe that unknowing kids might well be disturbed by such videos.

The so-called 'funny' videos are a mix of laugh-your-head-off, what-a-load-of-cr*p and completely un-funny. Unfortunately, the latter two categories appear to have the lions share of the market.

If you run a funny videos site as I do, you need to do an awful lot of searching for funny and entertaining content, which means having to sit through what seems a mountain of complete and utter dross.

I think the problem these days lies in the fact that everyone on the planet owns a digital camcorder, or digital video phone, or one of the countless other 'must have' gadgets that do photos and video. And it's just a matter of point and shoot, then upload directly to YouTube. Easy peasy.

It would be nice if Google could find a way of putting the dross somewhere else, like in the bin, so that when we watch a video on YouTube we're not driven to taking our own lives because of the long, monotonous process of finding something worthwhile to watch.

What do you think??

Dave

Take a look at the video below for something really funny..

Found how to add video content...

It took me a while to discover how to do this. I read the Google help pages for uploading videos to a blog and discovered that you had to click on the filmstrip icon in the editor.

But, I couldn't see the icon, and I was beginning to think that Google had withdrawn the service. So I left it for a couple of days then came back to it.

I decided to start from scratch and take a look a my basic settings. I was surprised to see that there were two editors for the blog - the new one and an old one. I had selected the new editor when I began writing the blog.

So, I edited my settings to use the old editor, just in case some of the settings had changed. Lo and behold, the filmstrip icon appeared in the old editor. Why Google has created a new editor without the ability to upload videos is beyond me. Maybe they don't like the idea of users competing with their utube service??

Makes you wonder, doesn't it...

Dave

Here's a very funny prank pulled on a doctor that is preparing to do an autopsy.

I've just discovered something else...

I've now found that I can promote my other 'regular' sites on blogspot.com. That sure is a bonus! It means I can provide you with links to my other sites on the net and give you the opportunity to see them at first hand.

These sites, along with my funniest-videos site - Funniest Videos in the World - are a bit of a mixture of the things that interest me. One, is a hurricane tracking site that I maintain. Two, is a site devoted to two of my most favorite games of all time - Morrowind and Oblivion.

The hurricane site called Hurricane Tracking is a site dedicated to tracking Atlantic Hurricanes as they head towards the eastern US seaboard. I use Google Earth to provide a pictorial representation of the tracks of hurricanes and tropical storms together with details of their wind strength, direction of movement and predicted track.

The Morrowind site called Morrowind-Oblivion is a site dedicated to the Bethesda games. These are the most fantastically detailed games that you can ever imagine, and they provide hundred of hours of superb role-playing fantasy entertainment. The mods for the game, modifications to the game that play as self-contained games in their own right, are plentiful on my site and the rest of the net. And, best of all, they're free!!

Mods make Morrowind and Oblivion - they extend the life for years after the game has disappeared from the shelves. These mods are created by the huge fan-base of 'modders' out there. Just download the mod, point the game to the location of the mod, then play it. Simple.

So, if you fancy taking a look at my sites, then just click on the links above. And I hope you like them as much as I do.

Dave