Linking To a Particular Time in a Youtube Video

I find myself using Youtube more and more for learning, whether I'm watching a Google lecture, or a math tutor, or maybe just a long interview. Unfortunately, it becomes really difficult when you are pulled away from the computer in the middle of these long videos to find your place again. So I looked up a way to link to videos at a particular time. Luckily, youtube is on top of things.

The format is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asdf1234#t=[number of minutes]m[number of seconds]s.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcBECFLXmuc#t=4m36s

There are two uses for this: One, I can save my place. By entering this little hack into the URL, and then saving a bookmark, (I use www.instapaper.com, but any service or normal bookmark will work,) I can save my place in a long video. Two, this means I can send a video to a friend and not have to say "skip to two minutes in." I can let them jump directly to the portion I want them to see.

Youtube should really investigate enabling saving of location in long videos, but until they implement this, this is a great way to save your place in a long video.

My New Desktop Theme

It was time for a change... so I've cleaned off my dock (which used to have every program I ever used,) and cleared it to just the items I need.

Icons: Flurry, Flurry Extras, Flurry Extras 2

Wallpaper: simpledesktops.com

Dock: minium2

Inspiration: beautifulpixels.com