“The waiting is the hardest part …”

Tom Petty, headliner for this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, almost had it right with this lyric. The hardest part is actually not knowing how long the wait will be. Which brings me to YouTube.

I’ve been busy uploading some videos to the site, and most of the time I’m on O’Reilly’s super-fast connection so it doesn’t take very long. But sometimes I’m at home. And that’s a bit slower. It’s during moments like that when I REALLY wish YouTube would take some of Google’s money and develop a progress bar with a percentage and (perhaps) a estimated time remaining so I know how long before my next video can be loaded. And beyond just knowing how long the wait is, I’d really like this for those occasions when my internet connection gets interrupted. Then if I see no progress, I can more quickly start the process over.