I started reading this, but somewhere around the 4th paragraph there was a knock on my door...

J/K. All fine here. Mrflip's posts, though, seem to have taken a dose of doublemint gum.

WRT the article, i do proxy to blogspot and wikipedia links that I care about enough to make the effort, and I do get that annoying "connection has been reset" message with some frequency. I suspect some of it is legitimately the lousy connection, though (according to my uncle, my broadband is 1Mbps max, and it speed-tests at less than half that, even to Japan) -- they're bad, but i don't think the UMD Terps are on the Chinese censorship list.

Interestingly, the link that has caused me the most annoyance is the youtube video of Sarah Silverman singing "I'm F---in Matt Damon"... a friend sent it to me, and I've tried to watch it several times (multiple URLs). I've never been able to get past the first 1:15 (of 4-5' clips). I hit pause to let it download, I come back and the bar is all colored in, I hit play, and all goes well until *poof*, "Email/Replay" screen, video done 1/3 (or less) of the way through. Sad, but it's probably not the censors. At least, that's what I'm telling myself. 

posted by ms cegenation at 07:32AM CST on February 24

Doubles fixed!

I have also had this happen with youtube links more often lately where the video is playing fine and then just suddenly ends. It is usually accompanied by the little progress indicator strobing out and rapidly flicking between 2 points on the progress bar. 

posted by natedogg at 02:09PM CST on February 24