Friday, February 09, 2024
Free Parking Melbourne
Wednesday, February 07, 2024
Liter to Gallon / Litre to Gallon Calculator - Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Liters to Gallons, Litres to Gallons
Sunday, January 28, 2024
4K dashcam video of 17 new red light speed cameras around Melbourne
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Melbourne Driving Tour - City of Melbourne and the Docklands - YouTube
Wednesday, January 03, 2024
When your viewers are on YouTube first appeared today (previously Not enough viewer data to show this report).
Various things happen on YouTube once some unknown point is reached. In YouTube there's a graph like the following, which shows when your viewers are on YouTube.
Until yesterday all I had in this section was a message that I think was "Not enough viewer data to show this report". The above graph appeared today (3rd January 2024) for the first time and I wanted to share my statistics in case it helps other determine when this might happen for them.
I started my 360 4K video channel on the 4th of October 2023, which is 91 days ago.
Since starting the channel my stats for the period 4 Oct 2023 to 1 Jan 23 are:
Views: 79,608 (Shorts: 75,425, Videos: 4,191)
Watch time: 367.0 hours
Subscribers: 117
The difference between the individual figures in brackets is because they are until the 3rd of January, whereas the other figures are for the period up until two days ago, the 1st of January 2024.
Looking at the last 48 hours of views there's only one hour where there were no views.
It may be the graph appears after 90 days, but I think this is unlikely, although I can't be sure. If you hover your mouse over the different shaded bars on the graph you get further information which states: "Very few of your viewers are on YouTube", "Few of your viewers are on YouTube", "Some of your viewers are on YouTube", "Many of your viewers are on YouTube" and "Very many of your viewers are on YouTube".
There is no "None of your viewers are on YouTube" at a particular hour, which I find interesting. If I were to guess, it may be this graph only appears once there are one or more viewers in each hourly bucket for the 24 hours for the 7 days. Keep in mind this graph is for the most recent 28 day period, so each hour on each day is the sum of 4 days from each of the weeks.
I don't know why or when the "When your viewers are on YouTube" graph appears, but hopefully by sharing my information it will provide clues to others should a pattern appear.
I should add my first channel is very different from my 360 4K channel as to when viewers are on YouTube. The main reason I think is when I started my first channel it is based on content largely from Australia and published based on the time in Australia. Currently 70% of my viewers are from Australia. For my 360 4K channel which this graph is from, the content started based on a recent trip to Europe and the viewers came mostly from Europe. I've focused on using Shorts to build the audience and currently the top viewers for All Viewers come from Russia, United States, India, Germany, Uzbekistan, whereas if just looking at long form video the top viewers are from: Fance, India, Australia, Brazil, Italy. Sometimes I wonder if the graph is for all viewers, or just long form videos. Again, I don't know the answer, but I thought I'd put the thought out there.
Kelvin
My first channel
Ride, Drive, Walk by Kelvin
My 360 4K channel
360 4K UHD videos
Wednesday, November 01, 2023
Victoria Container Deposit Scheme, Vic Container Deposit Scheme
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Contrary to recent media reports, Queensland is not fining drivers speeding close to speed sign zone changes.
I recently read people in Queensland were now getting fined when speeding very close to the speed signs when the speed limit zone changes. This concerned me as it appeared to be an easy way to increase revenue. Yes, people shouldn't speed. Being a good driver also means obeying the road laws. None of us obey the letter of the law, all the time. I decided to do some research.
After finding a few articles with photos showing the same location, things didn't make sense to me. The road markings did not match where the speed signs were located. The following is the article on Yahoo News, but I think I also saw headline from the Courier Mail.
Aussie driver caught twice by 'sneaky' placement of speed camera on highway (yahoo.com)
It turns out the driver was mistaken (along with many others), who believed the sign in their picture was a speed limit sign. It isn't a speed limit sign. It is an informational sign for a camping area and the road name.
The following video is from my travels and starts just before the sign shown in the speeding fines and then continues on to the speed limit change, about 220m further on.
Driving Queensland, Agnes Water to Gladstone - Tour #3 - YouTube
People are speeding up before reaching the sign and from the other direction, not slowing down to the speed limit as they reach the sign. This is normal driving behaviour, but it isn't legal behaviour. You have to at or below the signed speed limit for the section of road you are travelling on. If you're approaching a 60km/h sign from a faster section of road, you need to be at or below 60km/h when you reach the sign. If you're approaching a 100km/h sign from a lower speed limit zone, you can't speed up before you reach the speed limit sign. Not what we all do, but something we should be doing.
So in this case the media reports are based on incorrect information, and unfortunately, lack of fact checking.
Wednesday, October 04, 2023
Tuesday, October 03, 2023
Aldimobile Auto Recharge leaves users open to bill shock.
In February I moved to Aldimobile. Overall it's been a good service, but then recently something unexpected happened.
It was after midnight and I received an SMS, "Hi, Your ALDImobile PAYG credit is fully depleted. Please go online or use your mobile app to recharge."
My first reaction was to go and top up the account.
My next reaction was what the? I'm on Auto Recharge. Shouldn't I be covered?
Turns out at the end of the month the Auto Recharge can take up to a day to be applied. So for hours and up to a day, anything you use is taken out of your PAYG balance. Luckily there was only a $4.88 balance which was cleared out by Aldimobile. Never knew where that 12 cents went, but my guess now is data use during the time Auto Recharge hadn't been applied in the past. A second service also had money taken out.
To me the worst-case scenario is you have a large PAYG balance and you're watching a movie online and your balance is cleared out.
Of course, all of this can be found online, as long as you make the effort to read further than the first screens. ALDImobile also states "No bill shock", but isn't an unexpected and an unknown amount being charged what bill shock is?
I didn't know ALDImobile's Auto Recharge meant you weren't fully covered with your monthly payment. Perhaps others don't know as well, which is why I'm sharing this story.
I don't think ALDImobile's Auto Recharge is good enough and as a result, have moved to another provider so this is not an issue.
Kelvin
Sunday, September 24, 2023
Use Bookmarklets to add new features to Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
VicRoads Bundoora, Practical Driving Test #10 with audio guide
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Anaconda eBike Ride, Box Hill to Templestowe following Google maps directions
Friday, March 10, 2023
VicRoads Heatherton Practical Driving Test #8
Wednesday, February 01, 2023
Keeping you home phone number (landline without the landline) using CrazyTel.
Left a message from a mobile using Aldi's mobile service and the voice quality was excellent. The poor-quality call was from a Vodafone service. In other words, the call quality on the CrazyTel service may not be due to CrazyTel's service, but outside their control.
Monday, January 30, 2023
Practical Driving Test VicRoads Frankston
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Google's Gmail does not receive emails containing just images or links.
A significant issue with Google's Gmail is when people send emails from outside of Gmail that only contains an image/picture or a link, the recipient using Gmail does not receive the email. The person sending the email does not receive any notification the email failed. The sender doesn't know the person doesn't receive the email and the Gmail user never knows something has been sent to them.
For example, whilst on holidays recently I sent a picture of the Big Pineapple to two friends. One using Gmail and one using a different domain.
The person with Gmail did not receive the picture but the person using a non-Gmail email account had no issues receiving the email. At no time did I know the Gmail user was not receiving the emails with just a picture.
Recently I've tried to share a YouTube video using the share link feature in YouTube. I send using a non-Gmail service and Gmail users do not receive the email. Again, no notification of failure and no idea the Gmail user hasn't received the email.
In summary, if you're sending a link or picture as the only content in an email, and you're sending the email not using Gmail, a Gmail user is unlikely to receive the email.
To avoid this issue, I select the Share option and then send using my Gmail account to other Gmail users. This works for both pictures and links.
I should add the issue with not receiving emails with a link or a picture when using Gmail may also happen if there's other text in the email. For example, today I forwarded an email that had two pictures and the message I had previously sent to another Gmail user who did receive the email. The forward email only had my signature plus the content of the previous email plus the two attachments. When I forwarded the email from my sent items to a second person the Gmail user failed to receive the email. I sent the two pictures in an email using Gmail and the Gmail user received the email. In other words, it can be quite hard to know when something will or won't work with Gmail if you're sending from a non-Gmail account.
If you're not using Gmail and you're sending emails to a Gmail user, and the email contains links or images, there's a high possibility the Gmail user will not receive your email and you won't know.
Kelvin
Update: 28/01/2024
If I recall correctly, to solve this problem I needed to update my mail server records at the hosting company as Google now requires greater authentication.