Procrastinate Tomorrow

I don’t know if you have ever tried to embed flash into your wordpress blog, for the benefit of those who haven’t - It is a royal pain in the backside!

Anyway, it frustrated me that I couldn’t find a definitive way of doing it, wordpress for some reason doesn’t seem to like the object and embed tags that are used to embed flash in html. Even worse the only solutions I could find were aimed at people looking to embed youtube videos on their wordpress blogs. The Flash Video solutions I found all involved downloading 3 separate plugins and that seemed a tad excessive.

I found a solution to this, cheap and nasty admittedly, but a solution for embedding flash in a wordpress blog all the same.

So now you want to know what it is, eh?

Well in a word: iframes.
I had almost forgotten about my old friends iframes, until this problem reared its ugly head at me, yet they seemed perfect for this application. I will use a youtube video for my example, but any swf will also work:

1. You will need access to upload an html file to a webserver somewhere - if you host your own wordpress blog you can upload the html file to the same server.
2. Grab the code from youtube, it is on the right under “about this video” and in a box titled “embed” select it all and copy it.
3. Open some text editing software eg. Notepad (windows) or textedit (mac) and paste the code into a new file.
4. Save the file as filename.html (change filename to whatever you want, I use a descriptive name to make it easy to remember).
5. Upload the html file to your server.
6. In your wordpress admin go to Write > Write Post.
7. Write your stunning post.
8. Decide where in your post you want the youtube (works for Flash too remember!) content to appear.
9. Click on the html icon above the editor in wordpress and type this at the place you decided:
   <iframe width="425" height="355" frameborder="0" src="http://yourserver.com/filename.html"></iframe>
10. Save your post and view it in all its glory on your blog!

I hope this helps someone.

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So, there I was reading a couple of blogs last night sat on the sofa beside mrs wife, who was watching Nigella doing some cooking on the box.

Suddenly out of nowhere came a few choice soundbites, that woman is a suggestive hussy and no mistake. When she wasn’t kneeeeding and squodging - even her made up words are pornotastic - she kept staring out of the telly like she wanted nothing more than…. well, what is a man to do? The brazen slapper totally ignored my missus sat there and just talked filth at me - blimey.

Anyway without further ado here’s her in action:

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I just made a blog for my wife on another domain of mine, she loves cooking and grows her own herbs in inside window boxes - so she has plenty to blog about!

I on the other hand am working more and more with search engine optimisation and monetisation of websites, so it seemed a perfect solution for us to share the work and have a wee hobby that may even earn us some rainy day pennies.

We only decided last night that we should create a blog for her recipes, reviews of other recipes, kitchen tips in general and reviews of kitchen appliances she tries out and uses. Wordpress was quick and relatively painless to install, as was the theme and the couple of addons we decided on getting, the only one that is still causing me some problems is the widget extension as the theme we are using doesn’t have a sidebar that is created with ul elements.

Google analytics and adsense are switched on, we’re registered with technorati and waiting with baited breath to see what is in store for our wee project!

I may even write on mrs.emecks.com myself to review our coffee machine, which gets very well used when I work from home
Whilst Mrs Emecks continues to add content to her blog, I will be optimising the blog and experimenting with different monetisation methods, my findings will be posted here from time to time too for anyone who is trying similar to read.

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Well well what do you know there’s a list of blogs done by NTers so just because this one has been added there’s a new post worthy, something to do on a Saturday morning instead of monoLove™ or indeed duoLove™.

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At long last someone has reinvented the wheel If this is not number one on my christmas list I don’t know what!!
For boys only of course, way too dangerous for girls, at least that’s what the missus will hear anytime she wants a shot hehehe. I want to know where I can get one and how far you can lean into the corners, also how good is it at bumping old ladies and such out of the way with *grin*.

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If any two people ever needed professional psychiatric help, if not just a damn fine attorney then these hooooors are both of them, do not watch prior to, or indeed whilst eating.

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Happy bidet ya hooooor!

It’s nobody’s business but the hoor may as well have been dead next door for all I knew! But no, turns out the aging rocker is alive and well and shouting his rebel yell on myspace! Probably the only place left he can hope to find a sweet sixteen to have a white wedding with.

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Why do they have to open inwards??

Think about it:

You push the door open to get into the toilet, with your foot or your elbow to avoid touching the germ-ridden handle.

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Fatteries™©

The two biggest problems facing the developed world?

Obesity & Energy shortage

Now correct me if I am wrong but surely there is a glaringly obvious solution to both problems:

Make energy from obese people. Simple eh?

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DOG SEX

So my code gimp is on the phone to our hosting company, he’s on hold and talking to me about how a header doesn’t go with a website

CodeGimp: “It’s like chocolate… nice; pasta… nice; but chocolate pasta… not nice”

Me: “true”

CodeGimp: “Or even better, it’s like dogs… nice; sex… nice; but dogsex…”

At this point the girl who has put him on hold comes back just in time to hear our hero muttering “dogsex” at her.

Shite the kilt, we’ll have litigation now for sure.

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