gumbald’s blog!

CBC done and handed in, one less reason for procrastination now. I’ve found another reason though, lots of Ashlee Simpsons in the same video…

Much better than Lee Dorsey.

They don’t allow embedding of it! Settle for a much lesser replacement.

Maybe.

Wanted: imposter found on a site I can’t link to for crimes against beards and getting extra hits.

Me, today:

Using a wooden spoon to fish your bread out of a toaster is like doing brain surgery with oven gloves on.

I think. Just project-tweakage and the whole SYA module to go. T-minus one week (and a bit).

After a little theme modification, I am now gravatar-enabled. It’s one rollercoaster of fun here!

Grab your gravatars from http://en.gravatar.com

There’s an annoying laugh all the way through, but I have successfully tested my YouTube embedding code as described previously.

Someone with a Gravatar comment me! Preferably if you’re a cmbuild fan…

That first sentence sounds like it’s been lifted from my project report, it must be taking over my life more than I thought.

In order to keep the XHTML monster happy and ensure my blog is compliant with the standards, I had to remove the standard embedding of a YouTube video and replace it with compliant code. Rather than enclosing it each time, I searched for a plugin and am now using WP YouTube 2. Once installed and activated, simply make a profile with a number of options, such as colours and borders. Then, selecting “Valid XHTML”, save the profile.

Profiles are then called by [profilename]video_string[/profilename] in the code view where the string is found from the URL, such as http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f_3Utmj4RPU - the string is f_3Utmj4RPU.

I have tried to automatically send my videos to the right, but that was generating an extra <p> and </p> somewhere along the line, so I’m back to doing them manually for now…

I suppose I should take this opportunity to mention my first Swedish visitor and the creator of this plugin, Jens - found at http://www.jenst.se/

23000 words of unadultered self-assessed brilliance. It still remains to be seen how those in the know think though. For now, have another picture of the Ronster.

You love it!

Men Without Hats should tour. They’re way better than Rick Astley.

Now that I’ve got myself a Monster iSonitalk (review to come when I’ve tested it properly), I can walk and talk or listen to music, safe in the knowledge that anything I play gets recorded. Which is all that matters really.

Just a shame it’s raining really, spoils the walking pleasure…

Disclaimer: I’m not on the move at the moment, but sat at my desk. I might move later.