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- Sunday, May 12, 2013 1:20 AM: Happy Mother's Day 2013!
Wishing everyone a Happy Mother's Day, especially my mom. Love you mom, you're the greatest! 
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- Friday, April 5, 2013 1:59 AM: Website Changes During April 2013
Main Site Updates
Yesterday I noticed that my YouTube players on my Entertainment and NASCAR pages had quit working. They were completely blank. My guess is they finally pulled the plug on these old style players. So, I grabbed the latest embed code, using iframes, for my playlists and replaced the old players. I guess the added benefit with these newer players is that they will detect if your browser supports HTML5 or not and display the appropriate HTML5 or Flash based player. You need to be part of YouTube's HTML5 Trial for it to show the HTML5 version, provided your browser supports it.
Speaking of HTML5, Firefox 20 added support for videos encoded with h.264 in certain operating systems (namely Windows 7 and above at the moment as the OS comes with the codec). This is disabled by default, however. You need to go into about:config and set media.windows-media-foundation.enabled to true.
Gallery Updates
April 22, 2013: Gallery released version 3.0.7 which I have since upgraded my galleries to. It addressed a couple late-minute security vulnerabilities that were discovered.
It seems that not long after Gallery v3.0.5 was released that Gallery v3.0.6 came out to fix some bugs. So, I've updated my galleries accordingly (actually did this a few days ago). Exact same process as before.
That's all for now. Anything else I do this month I'll update this post.
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- Monday, March 25, 2013 1:01 AM: Website Changes During March 2013
Well, let's see. March has seen numerous changes to my website. If you're reading this on my main site, you'll notice some additional menu items: Firefox Configuration, Speed Test Results, System Information, and Winamp Info. The only actual new page is the Speed Test Results one. The others have been in existence for some time which I link to in various support forums. I made the Speed Tests page after I removed the images from my hardware page that were beside my cable modem entry.
I have also modified my NASCAR page to display the current driver standings using the data from ESPN's Driver Standings instead of Yahoo's. Yahoo's page was acting kind of funky so I changed it. I also stopped pulling the data down every time my page was viewed. I run another script that collects the data and saves it to a static text file that my NASCAR page just includes. Much more efficient as the standings information only really changes once after each race.
I have also modified my MOD page to include a playlist of videos I created while playing MOD files in XMPlay. Why did I make these? A good question LOL. Just 'cause I guess. I could probably write an entire post about the tools I've used to generate them. But, just so you know, I used CamStudio to create the videos and I've tried the CamStudio LossLess, XviD, and x264vfw Codecs to make my initial capture videos. Testing the various codecs, the options within them, and how they look after being sent to YouTube is enough to drive one crazy LOL. I did a fixed region capture of 640×360 which is a 16:9 ratio and matches the default size of YouTube's player that way you can read the text clearly.
I think that's all I've done lately.
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- Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:57 AM: Happy St. Patrick's Day for 2013
Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy St. Patrick's Day! Everyone be safe out there and don't do anything stupid like drinking or texting and driving. If you're in the Oklahoma City metro, Shawnee, Enid, Ardmore or Lawton, AAA is offering their Tipsy Tow Service for free by calling 1-800-222-4357. Please take advantage of it if you need it. Have a great time! Add/View Comments (0 comment(s))
- Saturday, March 16, 2013 5:35 PM: How to Add New RSS Feed Into Feedly for Firefox
Update March 28, 2013: Feedly just released version 14.0 of the extension for Firefox on their site. It does seem to correct the problem with adding new feeds and does seem to fix the Google+ button issue when trying to share with it. It's got some of its own little quirks (which some may not even notice). Version 10.2 is still available on the Firefox Add-On site (actually, they keep most of the older versions archived).
As most are aware by now, Google has announced that as of July 1st, Google Reader will be shutdown. I have been testing out Feedly as a replacement. If you're reading this then odds are that you've already installed the Feedly Extension for Firefox. At the moment it's basically a front-end for Google Reader and syncs its content with Google Reader. Changes made in Feedly will appear in Google Reader and visa-versa. More information can be found here on Feedly's blog: Transitioning from Google Reader to Feedly.
The biggest problem that I and many others have run into is adding new feeds directly into Feedly. The normal process in Firefox usually displays an error like this. Anyway, here's the easiest way that I've found to do it.
First, create a new bookmark of one of your existing Feedly pages or just make a new bookmark of anything really. Then, right-click the bookmark and select properties so that the following dialog is shown:
Like I've done, change the Name to something more meaningful, and most importantly, change the Location to http://www.feedly.com/home#subscription/feed/%s be sure to add the “%s” at the end. Then add a keyword, such as “f” like I have done, and click Save.
Now, simply preview the RSS feed you want in Firefox using the normal method or copy the link to an RSS feed. Then in the address bar, either insert a “f(space)” (or whatever keyword you decided on) in front of the URL if it's already showing or type “f(space)” followed by the URL to the RSS Feed:
After pressing enter, you should see the new page being displayed within Feedly's context. At this point, just click on the green +Add button:
Success!!
(oh, as of this writing I am using Firefox v19.0.2).Update March 17, 2013: Another work-around is to simply refresh the browser using F5, the address bar's refresh button, or Feedly's circular arrow refresh button, if you see that unable to load feed error page. After refreshing it seems to properly decode the URL and display the appropriate content to then add.
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Background: I was born on June 6, 1969 in Wichita Falls, TX, but grew-up in Edmond, OK, including going to Edmond High School there.
Current Occupation: It's a secret.
Before my present job, I was: a bank teller, Interned/Co-oped with IBM down in Southlake, TX at their Performance Evaluation Center programming Remote Terminal Emulators, and then worked for the State of Oklahoma in the Department of Vital Statistics (birth/death certificate stuff) for awhile, then spent 13 years working for Creative Labs, Inc starting out as a Technical Support Agent and ending up as a PC Technician/Help Desk Support in the IT Department.
Current residence: Oklahoma City, OK. If you want to know where Oklahoma City is in Oklahoma, or if you want to see what other internet resources there are in Oklahoma, click Oklahoma. Here's another site for info about what's in Oklahoma City.
Graduated May '92 with a Bachelor of Science in Computing and Information Sciences from Oklahoma State University.
Hobbies: Computing and all that stuff, Music, Movies, Snow Skiing (it's been awhile since I've been :/ ), Chatting on the internet (generally while working on our website or programming), and goofing off.
Radio Station I mostly listen to is the Classic Rock station KRXO 107.7 FM, followed by: KJ-103 and Rock 100.5 the KATT., all out of Oklahoma City, OK.
I have one sister, Jill, who got her PhD in Physical Chemistry, researching the atmospheric chemistry of alkylperoxy radicals (believe I got that right.. has to do with lasers, studying molecular behavior of various gases, CO2 and Ozone among others).. at the University of Colorado She's now a Research Associate at the University of Kansas.
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Website was created with HomeSite v4.5 After Macromedia purchased HomeSite I stopped upgrading. It seems to do the things I want.. so why upgrade? Also, some aspects of version 4.5 that I use on occasion were removed from later versions.
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