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There's still a few bugs to fix. I know I _should_ look into them before I continue to make more code filled with bugs. (But it's more fun to make more functions) There's also one feature that is really bad and should be improved -captioning.

Another feature I would like is audio support, and possibility to choose audio track for each project. And it should also be possible to cut the video in both ends, unlike now when you can only cut the last bit out.

Anyway, after these features are more or less finished, I urgently need eager and helpful people willing to try vlogging through this web-service. I hope that will happen in less than a couple of weeks, but time will show….

As I promised a couple of weeks ago, erh, I mean a couple of months ago, I've made a “smarter user interface for users”. OK, nok very smart, but I'm on my way. My other promises has all been lies; e.g. I've not implemented further trackback capabilities.

But these issues has been taken care of:
* Major tidying of code, less mess (still a long way to go)
* Less code means less bugs
* Nicer-looking blog/vlog (at least I think so)
* Better editing features, still not exactly pretty, but I might fix that.
* New menu on the side including ability to show last video/text/picture posts. These are also listed on every vlog (by force, how do you like that?)
* Hmm, and several other things you don't want to know about… (minor technical things, etc.)

I'm also quite satisfied with the new ubuntu system, there's no downtime yet (except for several caused-by-me-php-bugs downtime)

This is really funny. Today I was looking at the vlog-defeinition by Wikipedia. I randomly opened some pages, among those the “first (known) videoblog entry ever”. The funny part is that the picture (it’s not really a video) is showing the building where I’m sitting right now, and have been here for the last 1.5 years. (My window is approx 10m further left from the top left window.) This can’t be by chance, it has to be “meant to be”!

I've been away a few days a few times the last few weeks, and I will travel again the following few weeks.

Anyway, there's been *some* progress. First of all, I've changed server. Ubuntu, Athlon 1800+, 512MB RAM and updated versions of FFMPEG and MPlayer are now my new friends. I had to spend a lot of time getting to know them, but it was well worth the time.

Concerning VidEd, I've changed some of the database structure. I'm working on letting people publish finished projects as well as copying published projects from other people.

It's not much to show right now, the GUI is really bad, as it sort of was designed for a system that has evolved a lot since the “design” was created. Which means navigation is quite non-intuitive….

Also, some of present bugs might be due to a server change, meaning that I switched both hardware and OS (FreeBSD to Ubuntu Linux). I know about several bugs, I just don't have the time to fix all of them right now. Right now I think of the system as a “proof-of-consept”.