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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.

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!

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.