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Hmmm, only exports as a link… Ok, try this….

Just toying around with some ideas for a new project. Need to find some better animation software though…

Sitting in the dentists chair…

And now having a beer with Marcie at BP and using picasa for images…

– Post From My iPhone

So I came across Melody which is a open source extension of Movable Types blog software. It sound interesting so I thought I would give it a swing. One thing that was noted several times in my research is that Movable Type was waaaaay behind WordPress and its famous 5-minute install.

I have to say it’s true. I got most of the install going but nowhere did it mention that the url to initiate the install was http://domain.com/cgi-bin/install.cgi

Kinda an important fact. At this point I am now stuck because the install wizard states that I need HTML::Parser installed and my Snow Leopard machine is choking trying to install it. Part of the problem is I don’t know perl from a hole in the ground and part is because even though I think (though fink) I have got the latest package installed, the wizard doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge the face: deep sigh. Now I am into something called CPAN and the coding is getting hot and heavy.
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At this point I think the issue is I have not set up CPAN correctly because it keeps failing on the make command.
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&^%$# I don’t have xcode installed since the upgrade to Snow Leopard. #$%@^! 3.5 gb download from the Apple Developer site
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To enter CPAN: sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
install HTML::Parser

That was phase one. Then it turns out mysql isn’t a default install so I had to go back and try:
install DBD::mysql

Working on a Enjoy Centre youtube channel for work…

Jim’s video:

And now to try and get the channel embedded…

Hmmmmmm, this page gives you a wizard to add your own code which means this should do it: (and yet, it doesn’t…so far…)

Okay so here’s the deal. I forgot about embedding Java in a post. If I put most of the code in a text widget and then just eh embed code in the post it works fine… See here for more…

Supposedly the wordpress app (2.6.2) has fixed a few issues. Here is another attempt at a movie from the iPad. We’ll see…

Well that was using HTML 5, after I switch it to HTML 4 in the settings onthe iPad settings I get this:

Still ca.t find the crash reporter though…

…This is so Leslie troubleshooting her computer…

[zdvideo autoplay=”no” width=”500″ border=”no”]http://macblaze.ca/wp-content/swf/CatvsPrinter.FLV[/zdvideo]

Just trying out new functionality, like the ability to post videos. Here are some trees for the Kananaskis, proving why rigidity is an undesirable characteristic.

Hmmm doesn’t seem to be working…

Apparently the new app inserts object width="0" height="0" in two places which obviously makes the size of the movie zero…

If you change the 2nd one ( in the actual embed statement) to 600 & 400 then voila the movie magically appears with controller…