I watched my little vlog post there, as I gave my little bit of ACTING for the day and realized that there was something it reminded me distinctly of.. and now I know.. the video clips of the sons of Atrus in the original Myst! I had no idea that they were so influential in my style and presentation of extemporaneous fabrication. Alternately, there may be some strains of Mechwarrior 4 pilot wingmen coming through.
Nice overhead lighting, it makes an excellent neck shadow. It was also a great idea to put the internal microphone so close to the awful, whining motor. Thanks, Canon, for making things difficult!
I don’t care how ancient or old news this is — I’ve never seen it before, and I think it is very cool. I wonder what I could turn the Lincoln Towncar into? A Star Destroyer I guess; near life-size?
After my upgrade last night, I began receiving an odd error everytime I attempted to post to the blog. I say “odd”, because once I looked at the code, I do not understand why I was not receiving it before. Essentially, anytime post.php is called, with Clean Trunks active the user should get an error on line 80 of clean-trunks.php for an undefined function call to len().
To fix this, open wp-content/plugins/clean-trunks/clean-trunks.php and edit line 80.
replace: if( len($words[0]) > $this
with: if( strlen($words[0]) > $this
I’ve submitted this to the author’s blog, and if this does not turn out to be the best fix, then I will revise this post — however, I am pretty sure that this is it. Among other things, it works again.
I’m an Open Source contributor now. It is a proud moment; at least until I am told by the plugin dev that I’m incorrect.
This is a very nice status-bar mediaplayer remote control for FireFox. Highly recommended, as the interaction with the web is just kind of neat — especially for cavemen like me who have never bothered to use an application, on Windows at least, which will search and bring up the album art for a given tune. All the Smiths tracks loaded the nice, melancholy covers instantly, so how can you go wrong?
Although it was brief, the vlog has been tested (and deleted for silly content) and once I decide whether it is worth recording and posting something, at least the presentation system is in place.
You know, I’ve got this old Canon DV camera which actually does pretty well considering the abuse it’s been through (getting somewhat “wet” at the waterfalls of Iguazu in Argentina). I’m really enjoying learning the Wordpress platform, and seeing the kind of amazing things that can be written into it in the form of a plugin or widget.
So I’m considering expanding to a part-time video blog, but hosting my own rather than depending on one of the billions of video sites (YouTube, GoogleVideo, etc). I seriously doubt anybody actually “wants” to see me, much less hear me, but as a technical experiment getting it going I am very interested (especially if I run directly over firewire to the machine and avoid messing with tapes which are destined to be left to rot).
I’ve installed this awesome plugin which uses the reasonably well-known FLV player by Jeroen. The dead simple in-line embedding makes it simple enough to get the video displayed that far more time can be spent worrying about content than presentation (in contrast to some other video sites on which I have, of late, been required to work).
Look for the first live experiment sometime this week.