As I stared in frozen incredulity at the equally frozen YouTube video at yesterday's staff meeting, I was stumped at what the problem could be. I, and others on the Learn2Web2 team had watched that darned video several times at our desks, without any hiccups. Why did it choose "show time" to fail???
After the meeting, Jorge and I went over the possibilities for what went wrong: Maybe we shouldn't have viewed it in full screen? Maybe we should have run the video once before the presentation, just to make sure? Maybe Verizon was having a problem, or YouTube?
The funny thing was that the answer was right there on the screen, the whole time. Did you see that little pop-up message on the bottom right? Microsoft had some updates that it wanted to install. At home (and maybe in the office too -- Jorge, correct me if I'm wrong), my computer is set to let Microsoft do automatic updates during the middle of the night. But now I remember that each time I wake up my laptop at home, that also wakes up the Update Gremlin and I can't do anything on the computer until those updates are done. I think the Update Gremlin paid us a visit yesterday, and sabotaged our YouTube video.
Does anybody have any other theories about what shut us down?
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That makes sense. Microsoft is the root of all evil.. or wait... is it Google now?
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