Turns out I didn't even bother to test my blog template in Internet Exploder. Apparently, the template did not play well with IE, so I reverted to an even simpler template. I guess I like it, but I was in the mood for some centered pill columns. Oh well, at least this version is just a simple and clean.

I am still waiting on my slice of lime.

I decided it was time for a facelift here on the ol' blog.  And, I dropped the moniker "valence".  Nobody really got the Chemistry 101 reference unfortunately, and presumed I was running some sort of blog on variations in window dressing and decor.  So, in honor of Independence Day, I celebrate my independence from my previous template and welcome my new Blogger template overlords!

Happy 4th everyone!

I finally got smart and decided to post some reference material for myself, seeing as tagging works like a charm in the ol' tag cloud. So off we go...

1. Prepare the AVI file. And by prepare, I mean make it available. And by make it available, I mean don't have it deleted. And by don't have it deleted, I mean have it edited to your satisfaction.
2. Login to your YouTube account. I use my Google account, so Blogger & YouTube are all in sync.
3. Upload the video. You'll have to make it public in order to share it, but I disable comments, ratings and responses since I don't really care about that. Keep in mind that it will be public.
4. Wait. AVI file's aren't smallish, and chances are unless you're uploading this from work, you'll have a poky 384kbps or less upload speed. So grab a spot of tea.
5. Once the upload is finished, YouTube presents you with a nice bit of HTML that you can copy and paste into your post! Voila!
6. I should note that it does take a bit for YouTube to process the video, so if you immediately post with your embedded object, you won't be able to access the movie. Instead of seeing the preview of the movie, you'll see a generic camera image, and after pressing play you'll get a message indicating that the video is no longer available. Just sit tight. Depending on the size of the movie, it may take anywhere from a few minutes to an hour to prepare. In my recent exercise, I noticed that a 33MB file took around 5 minutes to process.