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Embeded videos not working

12/11/2006 / Blake

Hmmm… Last week I tried to post a video from YouTube right here on the blog. That way you could just click on it and away you go. It seemed to work at first. But then on any Mozilla based browser it wouldn’t work. In fact, it royally jacked up all the formatting to where things were not in their proper place.

It took me a bit to realize it was the YouTube code that messed everything up. To the point where I’d uploaded almost all of the WordPress files again.

So does anyone know any easy solution to this?

An awesome Baptism video

12/11/2006 / Blake

Most of the times a baptism in church can be really special. But sometimes it is special for different reasons. Check this one out!

Baptism Video

My first video chat

12/04/2006 / Blake

Tonight I used iChat combined w/ iSight to do the first video chat for me ever. Talked to Brian up at (cough cough) Ole Miss. Worked pretty well. I can see some amazing pluses to it to check out later. Now I want to figure out how to do an interview and record it over iChat or something like that.

O Christmas Tree

12/02/2006 / Blake

Well, our tree it now up! We went to get one Thursday at Home Depot. We seem to hop back and forth between a real tree/fake tree Christmas each year. But Home Depot had the best deals it seemed. We bought a $32 real tree only to find out they charged us $41. So The Wife decides it’s enough to have to load the tree back up and go get that $9 back. Turns out they had a $41 tree mixed in w/ the $32 ones. But we got that refund either way.

But after setting it up Thursday and lighting half of it, we finished the lights and put on the ornaments last night. The girls were really excited about it all. Addison because she’s done all this before already. And Ella because she liked hanging ornaments on the tree. But her hanging consisted of poking the ornament on the limb and hoping it stuck.

We’ve been listening to a lot of “The Carpenter’s Christmas” and Harry Conick Jr’s Christmas cd. Not stuff I’d listen to just any ole day, but seems to fit the mood right now. And Thursday it went from about 70 degrees to 35 degrees in a matter of hours. So the cold is here. But it probably won’t last all the way til Christmas.

My office helper

11/29/2006 / Blake

She needed to come by for a bit with me today. She’s helping a lot. Tries to answer the phone whenever it rings, throws my cell phone to see if it will bounce off the floor, and makes it difficult to type when she’s in my lap because she thinks she’s a better typist than me.

The Holidays

11/24/2006 / Blake

I’m sitting on my inlaws’ couch typing on their laptop. And I’m sitting in front of a big screen TV watching SportsCenter. Since we don’t have cable at home, I get my SporstCenter fix when I can.

Yesterday was a drive north and then lunch at The Wife’s aunt’s house. Then a competitve game of Phase 10. I’m always confident in that game. Sometimes w/o reason. But I came in 2nd overall. So close….. I’m about to go get in the shower and then we’ll load the fam to go to New Albany to my dad’s house, then eat fried fish for Thanksgiving at my aunts house. How’s that for breaking tradition? Then later this evening we’ll head to Amory. Don’t worry, I’m clocking all the miles.

But I’ve also been reading stories on the upcoming Egg Bowl. I’m pumped for it. But I must admit I miss it being on Thanksgiving. I went about 3 or 4 of those. We’d eat somewhere, and then make the trek to Starkville or Oxford. I guess I liked it so much because State won most of the games on Thanksgiving.

But this year is really a toss up. I think we’d have the upper hand except for our QB situation. With Henig hurt, a less than healthy Conner will be at the helm most of the time. And UMiss is looking for trick plays to throw at us too. I hope to be able to listen to some of it on the way home tomorrow.

So…the next two days should be more eating and driving. Seems to be what the holidays are all about.

The Thanksgiving Tour

11/22/2006 / Blake

We’ll be heading out in the morning to start the Thanksgiving Tour. That’s where we load up the car with kids and dogs and go to three cities in three days to see three sets of families. So we’ll load, unload. Then load and unload. Then load and unload. Then load for the return trip home.

Along the way we’ll eat and greet and hopefully sleep. But we’ll be rushed and not really be at anyone’s house long enough for them to be satisfied. So we’ll leave someone’s house and they’ll think we didn’t stay long enough. And then we’ll get to someone’s house and they’ll think we stayed too long at the house we just left.

The joys of holidays!

Hi, my name is Blake. And I’m a Facebook junkie.

11/22/2006 / Blake

Not really. But I can see how people can be. I remember when I first heard of it. And it seemed the new thing in college circles. But it was a closed circle. You had to have a college email address and mine had LONG since expired.

I did look at it a few times here and there after it expanded to the high school scene. Someone would log in and let me look over their shoulder. But I did the other social networking site. I got myself a MySpace. And I thought it was cooler. It had music and everything w/ it. And it seemed to have a lot of people involved with it.

But then someone told me that Facebook was open now. Wide open. And I signed up a couple of months ago. And I see how people could spend inordinate amounts of time on there. My previous assumptions of Facebook being more high school and MySpace being more college wasn’t true. Facebook seems to have tons of both. And more and more people adding every day. Even “old” guys like me.

But it is a great way to be able to keep up w/ people. And to connect with students in their world too.

So, I guess I did drink the Kool-Aid

11/21/2006 / Blake

The kool-aid is tasting good. The Mac came in and now I’m sitting in front of it. It’s small, sleek, yet 15.4 inches. I guess I’ll be figuring out the ins and outs of it soon. I’ve been looking around the last few months at online opinions. And there are a lot of people who say, “Mac is the best and here is my grocery list for why…” and then there’s the camp that says, “PC’s are more than fine and here’s why when comparing ~~apples to apples~~ oranges to oranges they’re just as good…”

But I read one statement that rang true. Even though there are plenty of people who LOVE their machine, be it Mac or PC….any of the ‘switchers’ you read about are the PC to Mac people. I have never read someone say, “I used to be a Mac user only. But I switched to a PC and now I’d never think of going back.” I’ve NEVER heard of that. And it’s speaking volumes to me.

Now I’ve still got a long ways to go in getting my feet wet w/ this machine. I know it can do a lot of stuff that I’ve not even begun to scratch the surface of. So here’s to exploration and learning. This will be a great ministry tool. I’m excited to see what happens with it!

Happy Birthday, Ella!

11/17/2006 / Blake

To follow up on yesterday’s post, as we went to bed on November 16th, there was lots of prayer and concern. There was actually a brief point where I was almost deathly fearful. I was just outside of town, The Wife was at the Doctor, and as I was closing a business deal, the cell rang. Didn’t recognize the number and I was about to walk out of the door. So I didn’t answer.

I leave, The Wife calls and chews me out for not answering the phone (which I should have). Turns out she’s at the doctor and I can tell there’s not been good news. But she won’t tell me anything over the phone. Nothing. So I go home and wait. And wait and wait. Then I call the Dr. office, and get a hold of her in the exam room, but still won’t say anything. But I can tell she’s upset. So I have to wait still.

FINALLY she comes home. But just sits in the car, with it locked, and is crying. Now just imagine all that is flooding my mind. We’ve gotten no so good news from the doctor that the baby might not be growing as quickly as is normal. The doctor is concerned. He wants to go in and induce right now. Then The Wife comes home and is obviously upset and won’t open the Explorer door. And she’s crying.

I’d thought we’d lost the baby. That there was a dead baby in my wife right now. It was crippling. BUT…that wasn’t the case. Very thankfully. Today my daughter is TWO YEARS OLD! But here is a blog entry from 2 years ago w/ a “in the moment” story of how it all happened…