And so, last night I signed up for a YouTube account.

It took multiple attempts, mind you. For some reason, you have to click 
on every link on the site 4-5 times before the corresponding page 
actually loads. Plus the application form gets rejected if any fields 
are blank, and when it does this it helpfully blanks out some of the 
fields you already filled in (but not all of them, because then you'd 
notice it and wouldn't get caught out).

I did have a go at uploading a video, but this was an excercise in 
extreme futility. The smallest video I had handy was roughly 300 MB, and 
it took half an hour to upload 8 MB. Clearly uploading uncompressed 
video is infeasible.

I shall have a go tonight. Hopefully if I apply a really tiny amount of 
compression, the video will still be recognisable and will unload in 
less than thirteen millennia...

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