Chris Leckness is a Geek

I have been under a rock for a while I guess. I just cruised around YouTube and learned some things that I must have missed.

1. I have revenue sharing on my account. I don’t plan to use it, but it’s there. I can put Google ads into my videos. Cool. Don’t worry, i’m not using it. hehe…
2. They have much more custom settings for your account. i added some cheesy Mobilitysite graphics to all my pages on YouTube.
3. Holy Crap. I can upload files up to 1gb now. THAT IS SWEET. So, since I am lucky enough to have a legacy YouTube account that let’s me upload videos longer than 10 minutes, they won’t all be so grainy. I hope at least. I am uploading a video right now that I forgot to put online 2 months ago in a better resolution to test.

Kudos YouTube. One of the reasons I continue to use Youtube as opposed to the other services out there that have better video quality is the community behind YouTube. Now that better videos can be uploaded, it should be a win/win.

All I have to say is thanks!

If you upload videos, you get notifications when someone subscribes to your feed, when someone comments on one of your videos, and when you get a direct message via their inbox.

Youtube has recently changed the emails that come in as a result of these actions that happen. The problem for me was that the email used to just say that someone left a comment and no real details. You’d have to visit the site to see them.

Well, I get 20-30 comments a day on my various videos and I don’t want to spend all day clicking through to read another Apple vs Microsoft bullshit comment.

The new email actually includes the comment text. This is great! I can now read them and only click through to Youtube on comments with questions or something else constructive.

Thanks for this YouTube!

Thanks Google for making it easier to use your online services.

The other day, I got a message when logging in to Google Adsense. It asked me if I wanted to merge this login into another Google account. I was very happy to see that. I had like 4 different logins across several Google services. 30 minutes later, I have one login to access Google Reader, Gmail, Google Analytics, and Google Adsense. It makes life much easier. Thanks for the prompting Google.

Unless you live under a rock, you’d know that Barry surpassed Hank Aaron for the All Time Home Run record a couple of nights ago. Some say congrats, some shun his accomplishment, some are calling for an asterisk. I say congrats.

I don’t give a shit if he’s taken steroids. Steroids don’t steal bases, steroids don’t make your hand/eye coordination better, steroids don’t make you see the ball better. If they ever prove he did take steroids, I would love to see proof of the time frame. My guess would be 2001 timeframe if ever. Do I think he hasn’t taken them? I am not sure, but given the amount of players that have taken, I am not really concerned.

I am just happy to see this record be broken. Not to see Hank lose the record, just to get all the attention over with. I love baseball, but I was tired of hearing about the chase.

If you didn’t know, I have his 312th Home Run ball. ( Link to Photo ) 

I have given away so many things in the last 4 years, I forgot what it was like to win a contest myself!!! Today, that changed and now I feel giddy like a school girl!!!

Thanks to you guys for the help and thanks to Palm for the contest, I am now the proud owner of my choice of Palm Treo Devices!

Do I get the orange Treo 680 for my wife or do I get myself the Treo 750?

Anyhow, this is the contest: Final Contest and Random Drawing Winners and this is the post that got your support: Let’s Win a Palm Treo!