Thomil's Random Ramblings

For a keen supporter of public transport like me, the last month or two haven’t been the easiest, with a coalition of fossils and egomaniacs here in Cork bringing down the partial closure of Patrick Street and its use as a public transit corridor. At the same time, BusConnects Cork, 200 million € worth of new vehicles, lines, ticketing principles and other much needed improvements promised in the governments Ireland 2040 plan seem to have taken an express bus to nowhere as they’ve completely disappeared from view. Anyway, I had a day off from work on Thursday, due to it being a bank holiday in the main market that I cover, Germany, and as luck would have it, I’ve been dealing with a bloody migraine all day.  As I’m sitting here on the couch, nursing my head and cursing everyone and no one indiscriminately (Hey, I’m an equal opportunity hater when I’m in a bad mood ;) ), a video on the Facebook Page of RTÉ News catches my eye. Apparently, the city of Zhuzhou in China has be...

So, YouTube. Love it or hate it there’s pretty much no way around it these days. It is the world’s second largest search engine, right behind Google. And no matter what your thing is, there’s likely going to be at least one channel that caters to your interests. I myself have been a passive consumer for a few years now, ever since a good friend and colleague of mine introduced me to the German YouTube comedy duo Space Frogs . It was only fairly recently though that I actually became interested in producing content on the platform. I had originally thought about getting started back in 2016, after leaving Apple, and actually filmed and edited a „pilot“ if you will, but never uploaded it. Why? Quite simply, it was horrible, and I had no idea what the channel was supposed to be about. Fast forward to April 2018, and I’ve been producing content on a somewhat regular basis for about a month, even though the subject is actually rather limited. So, I believe the time is right to start writin...