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We celebrated Thanksgiving here in Orlando. It was just the four of us this year. After we ate Thanksgiving dinner (part 1 anyway), we put up our Christmas tree.

I just had to finagle the “embed” code that Facebook provides when you select the option for it. Here is the code that Facebook provided when I selected the “embed video” link on one of my videos:

<object width="576" height="324" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/xyz" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/xyz" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="576" height="324"></embed></object>

When I previewed my post, I noticed that the video didn’t show up. Since I had success in the past with embedding a video in a blog post, I reviewed the source of that post. What I noticed was that some of the parameters were moved around. When I moved the parameters into the what I’ll call the correct order, my video automagically™ appeared! Here is the “correct” code to embed a Facebook video into your self-hosted wordpress blog post.

<object width="400" height="224" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/abc" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/abc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="224"></embed></object>

On Friday, November 20th, Aaron’s was in a Thanksgiving recital at his school. It was pretty short, but extremely cute! Aaron was very excited to see that Eli and I (daddy) came to see him sing with all of his classmates. Here are a couple of videos I shot of his performance.

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I use Picasa to manage the pictures on my computer. I have recently started uploading them to picasaweb as well, in light of Google’s offer of 20GB for $5/year. I won’t be renewing my Flickr Pro account because of Google’s offer.

Since I don’t want all of my pictures viewable online but I do want an backup of them, I still upload pictures to my Facebook account. I found a button that you can add to your Picasa toolbar that will upload the picture(s) directly to Facebook.

Give it a try, it’s very nice!

I saw this plugin mentioned on Sarah Perez’s blog. It is the bit.ly Windows Live Writer plugin.

Ah, funny how true this one is!

this may or may not work. I’m attempting to embed a wavelet into this post. I found a plugin named “wavr” that will allow me to do that.

Edit: here is how you figure out the wave id

[wave id="googlewave.com!w+5Nz5HFI2B" server="https://wave.google.com/wave/" bgcolor="#FFF"]

I have a 5th generation iPod. It has “frozen” on me a couple of times. To reboot it, when it is “frozen”, just hold the center button and the menu button at the same time for approximately 3 to 5 seconds.

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Here is Eli speaking in his own gibberish speak. He likes to come up to Meri or I and have a conversation with us like this.