A Brief Note

I'm getting a lot of e-mails tonight from people saying, "The video clips on your weblog are missing." I guess I need to explain that there are no video clips on my weblog. The things you click on here are on some other site — usually YouTube or Google Video — and I just embed links to them on my site. Each link creates a little window on this page that lets you see a video that's really part of someone else's website on some other server located God-knows-where. At this very moment, YouTube is down for maintenance so the embedded links can't connect there. Ergo, there are blank holes on my page where video gems usually reside. YouTube will be back up soon — maybe even by the time you read this — and the video fun will magically reappear.