how to put a youtube video into a blog

1) go to the page where you can view a specific video in you tube (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqs8EABl0H8)
2) once the video has loaded and starts buffering/playing, look to the right of the video
3) there are 2 text boxes with some HTML code in them (scary!)
4) copy all the text in the text box next to the word "Embed"
5) go to your blog dashboard
6) create a new post
7) write some normal stuff describing the video you wish to embed
8) switch to HTML mode
9) paste the code you previously copied from youtube
10) save and publish your post



When you go to your blog you should be able to view the embedded video like the one below of Thom Yorke's excellent preformance of "Cymbal Rush" with fellow Radiohead band-mate (not sure which of the Greenwood brothers it is) on the Henry Rollins Show.

Keep it simple

During the space race, NASA spent near a million dollars developing a pen that could write upside down. The cosmonauts took pencils.

Keep it simple. stay twelve.

Anger

"Holding onto anger is like holding onto a hot coal with the intention of throwing it at somebody else, you are the one getting burned."

The Buddha said that.

Video for your enertainment.

Video for your enertainment.

Customising my blogger blog

I have spent some time customising my blog design and some functionality/navigation. My blog is currently built on the blogging platform supplied by Blogger (a part of Google for those who did not know).

Changing the look and feel of the blog has been quite easy using CSS and a little bit of HTML - this should be for most competent web developers. But (based on my initial research) I do get the feeling that the Blogger/BlogSpot platform is lacking some of the more advanced features and flexibility offered by others.

My blogging platform wish-list:

• Search box
• Categories to organise posts / content
• Tagging content (web2.0 style)
• Other Web2.0 integration made easy (plug-ings / add-ons / flickr / youtube etc)
• Multi-user
• Design can be customised quickly and easily by CSS tweaking
• Simple back-end for maintaining blog
• Blog by email
• Prevent comment spam easily
  

Next step: I want to see if WordPress can happily fulfill my wish-list and do everything that Blogger can (or better). Anyone with ideas/resources, please comment.

Dre

How to publish to your blog by email

Handy tip:

If you write a good / handy / funny / useful email to a friend, and you think its something which might be of interest to anyone else on the inter-web, then why not just cc that email to the special blog email address supplied by Blogger / WordPress for publishing directly to your blog by email.

This way your goodness / smartness / funniness / usefulness can be shared by all, not just a single email recipient.

That's all for now - except for a quick check to see whether we can include photos when publishing by email. A pic of me. [UPDATE] the image I attached did not upload :(

How to create a link in blogger

In order to create a link that people can click on in blogger, you can do it in 2 ways:

1. Using the WYSISIG (what you see is what you get) editor

a) highlight the text you wish to link
b) click on the link icon (circled in blue below)



c) A pop-up will appear - enter the URL (must include the http:// part)


The above method is the easiest way of creating a link in blogger/blogspot. The next method is more complex, but quite handy for non-geeks to know.

2. Switch to Edit HTML mode, and manually enter the HTML-code for a link (HINT: this little lesson is very useful if you ever plan to include a link in a comment on someone else's blog!)

<a href="http://www.drezilla.com">drezilla website</a>

You should of course replace the URL I've used (http://www.drezilla.com) and the link text (drezilla website) to whatever you want to link to.

Simple enough - I hope :)

drezilla