Blogging

I apologize for my long absence from blogging.  Things have been quite busy recently, both personally and professionally, but there’s a much bigger reason I don’t blog more often.  This post notwithstanding, I can’t blog short.  What I mean to say in that grammatical horror I’m calling a sentence is that I don’t do well [...]

Embeddable Widescreen YouTube Player

You may have noticed a link reading “Try the New YouTube Player Beta!” under videos on YouTube.  The new player is pretty sharp looking. Moreover, it has a sweet widescreen version. Unfortunately, YouTube provides no instructions on embedding the new player on your blog/website. I searched Google and didn’t find any instructions anywhere, so after I [...]

Time to Leave WordPress?

So, WordPress has had another major security problem. While I realize that no system is ever fully secure, it seems that WordPress has been having more than its fair share of issues. There was the “highly exploitable code” in May 2007. Then there was the December 2007 update to version 2.3.2, “an [...]

Red City WordPress Theme

After I installed the theme that I’m currently using, I realized that it doesn’t use widgets, so I’ve updated the theme to make it widget aware, as well as changed out the main photo for one that I think fits the theme better (no, it’s not the one of me, that’s just for my blog). [...]