WordPress 2.9 was released yesterday and I thought it was worth reposting the introduction video done by the fabulous Michael Pick:
Note that the above video is embedded using the new embeds feature that I wrote. I just dropped the URL onto it’s own line and it was converted into an embed automatically! 🙂
For security reasons, the UI to enable oEmbed’s discovery ability was removed from WordPress today. It’d be too easy for a novice to accidentally embed some bad HTML into their blog if they posted the URL to a malicious website.
However if you know what you’re doing, feel free to install my Enable oEmbed Discovery plugin which will re-enable the feature. 🙂
I enjoyed the first one so much that I thought I’d post this new one as well. 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxZpQl9hskc
The black and white rally car part at about the 1:20 mark is from Top Gear 13×03 by the way. 😉
Oh boy, what have I gotten myself into?
Matt Mullenweg has been preaching the benefits of Dvorak for many years now. After his latest sermon, I decided it was finally time that I give it a go. I’m only using Dvorak here and there as it murders my WPM (I type like a letter per 5 seconds — this post took forever to write), but I did rearrange my keyboard keys to help me out:
(The F and J keys on my keyboard have their connectors turned 90 degrees, so they and the keys that replace them had to be rotated.)
Currently I type with only 2 or so fingers (hunt and peck without the hunting), so I’m hoping that switching to home row Dvorak will be better on my hands even though home row is really uncomfortable. We’ll see. 🙂
I am in the early stages on recoding my Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin from scratch and in the process I will be replacing JW Player with a free and open-source alternative. JW Player is really great, but sadly it’s released under a non-commercial license which just won’t do.
So please, if you know of any good Flash players that will do FLV, MP4, etc. please leave a comment with a link!
Here’s my list so far of players to compare and pick between: (I’ll update this list with suggestions)
If you’re a WordPress.com blogger and like posting code, then you’ll be happy to know that the latest version of my SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin is now live on WordPress.com. Enjoy!