The lead-in to this story caught my attention: about big fish, whereas the morning’s amusement, while the sky dripped moisture, was little fish.
Tax-time, membership drive:
I’ve got to run some kind of a membership drive. Can’t figure it out, though, because, some days, I can’t be bothered. But what’s the best way to drive up membership? Costs around $2K per month to run this place. That means I’m about 500 monthly subscriptions short of even coming close to a break-even point.
(Bucky’s prop courtesy of TFG)
I wonder if this has anything to do with taxes?
Size does matter:
I was answering a tech question for Sister’s web person, and after making a point about video, I started messing with the files and settings. I did several version of the clip, about four minutes of video, in a sensible web-standard 320 by 240 window frame. As an mp4, with the audio cranked done, it was set to stream at – if I understand this – something like 160 (something) over a 256K DSL. Fatter pipes wouldn’t be a problem, but I’m figuring that it has to work on 128K DSL, at the very minimum. The actual file size for that mp4 was 9.5 megs. Same footage, exported as a Quicktime ™ mov file was 31 megs.
The bandwidth isn’t a problem, not at this point, but the mp4 is much more compact. Less than one-third the size? This isn’t rocket surgery.
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