I have found that some people cannot figure out how to remove a video from YouTube once it has been added. You might want to do this if the quality was not what you expected, if the video is no longer relevant or has been updated.
This is all you have to do
1. Go to YouTube
2. Sign in if you are not already
3. In the top right hand corner of the page you will see a menu item with the name of your account and an arrow to the left of it

4. Click the down arrow
5. Click “My Videos”
6. This brings you to the My Videos page
 
7. Check the box to the left of the videos you want to delete
8. Click the Delete button at the top

That’s all there is to it

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One of the needs we all face from time to time in the digital age is how to share a file. Often we use email to send files to friends and business associates. But this is not always the best route. In fact if your file is larger that a couple of megabytes there is a good chance that it may never make it to it's destination.

There are many solutions on the internet to help solve this problem. They come in many varieties. There are free and paid services. Some services allow a lot of storage or huge file sizes. Some that are best for sharing within your company.  Some that only become easy to use once you pay for the service. They each have their own way of doing things.

One service that we use often is Microsoft Live SkyDrive. It is part of the Microsoft Live system. It gives you 25 GB of storage but a maximunm file size of 50MB. The 50MB should be plenty for anything other than large video files. The 25GB total for all files is a lot that you will be hard pressed to use up.

Sharing files is simple use Microsoft Live SkyDrive and best of all the service is FREE. I love that word. I love the way it rolls off of my fingertips onto the keyboard ;-) If you have a Microsoft Live account it is also a great way to back up and/or share your Microsoft Office documents with friends and coworkers. You can even edit those documents online if you don't have access to the whole Office suite at your disposal.

I have created a short video that describes how to share files using SkyDrive. You can find it here http://www.nsage.com/Media_Player/VideoId/57/Sharing-Files-With-Microsoft-Live-SkyDrive.aspx . If you ever have the need to share files and don't like departing with your hard earned cash, this is well worth the 8 minutes of your time.

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OK, I'll admit it, I'm not much of a South Park guy. That being said, I do think it is hysterically funny at times.

I am far from a prude, but something about the raunchy nature of the show, combined with the fact that it is animated (well sort of, it is South Park you know) and the easy accessibility for the younger audience makes me think about how my mother would have reacted to it when I was a kid. I remember how she thought that Laugh In was the dirtiest show she would ever see.

I love you mom, but the world has definitely changed.

So anyways.....I was looking at my Facebook account where I saw that a friend of mine, Alan Randel (http://www.facebook.com/alan.randel) had a birthday today. Happy birthday Alan.

I looked down and a Friend Suggestion was for my 16 year old son, Hunter. So I thought, sure, I'll friend him. Well after a couple of back and forth messages, all that he would tell me is that I needed to go see this South Park video: http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/267112/.

Needless to say, he is a HUGE South Park fan! I also go the point.

I was always told that you had to be a parent first and not be friends with your children. But seriously, that's not what I thought they meant.

If you want to be MY FRIEND on Facebook, I'm at http://www.facebook.com/raymond.raffety.

Have fun,
Raymond

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I just saw this trailer for Freakonomics the Movie: http://www.nsage.com/Media_Player/VideoId/44/Freakonomics-Official-Trailer-HD-.aspx

I liked the book a lot. The movie loooks like it will be high energy and stay true to the book. The book's topics included:

• Chapter 1: Discovering cheating as applied to teachers and sumo wrestlers
• Chapter 2: Information control as applied to the Ku Klux Klan and real-estate agents
• Chapter 3: The economics of drug dealing, including the surprisingly low earnings and abject working conditions of crack cocaine dealers
• Chapter 4: The controversial role legalized abortion may have played in reducing crime. (Levitt explored this topic in an earlier paper entitled "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime.")
• Chapter 5: The negligible effects of good parenting on education
• Chapter 6: The socioeconomic patterns of naming children

Take a look at the trailer

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