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This music video is streaming off my own website, not off YouTube. Still experimenting to see how much streaming the site can take. If some of you would watch it and let me know how it goes, I’ll put it up on YouTube and announce to FR generally. (Hi, generally!) Deeply sorry, Bags. I don’t think any of your memes made it in.
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Excellent job, Mairdie.

Mairdie,

Finally got around to your video and finally got it to play.

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTICALLY WONDERMOUS!!!! Loved the 1812 Overture choice. Maybe 4-5 of the memes were a bit too fast for me to read but I just started that portion again. Am planning to send it to my email list. THANKS HUGELY.

Consider those cannon blasts to be accompanied by enthusiastic hugs.

No one has said they couldn’t see the video, so I’m guessing the streaming held up. I only announced this version to this thread, to hold down the views. The YouTube version was hit very hard and I couldn’t have sustained that on my website.

I’d like to be able to stream some videos myself. Quality has always been primary for me. As the technology changed and I gained new sources, I’ve redone my entire collection of videos over and over again. YouTube drives me crazy by degrading all the quality I put into the videos, and I’d love to be able to show the originals in their high quality form.

It’s sort of like when I first put up my videos on the web, rather than their being sent around the community from international copy centers. I could handle such a limited download on the site that I would announce a time, it was first come/first serve, and the video came down after the initial rush. For some reason, this reminds me of Captain Grace Hopper, whom I invited to speak to my languages group in Boston, explaining the archeology of computers and how old ideas need to be remembered because their need will arise again. How desperately I wish I had been videotaping in those days.