imbedded picture/video trial take 2

Ok people, here is my question: Why did the embedded video not work untill I embedded a picture on the same blog entry? Tried to do the video embedding a while ago, with no results. Tried it today with a picture as well and BINGO!

Computers seem frustrate me any time I'm doing more than playing games on them.

to "the" or not to "the"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/05/2052268.htm

The power of 'the' wins Ig Nobel
By Stephen Pincock for ABC Science Online
Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 4:16pm AEST Updated Fri Oct 5, 2007 7:35pm AEST

It is a small and often neglected word. But the word 'the' has just won Australia's Glenda Browne international recognition in the form of an Ig Nobel prize.
The Ig Nobels, parodies of the real Nobel Prizes, are awarded annually to applaud achievements that make people laugh, and then make them think.
Ms Browne, a professional indexer who once worked in the field of biotechnology, is this year's winner in the literature category.
Her award honours a scholarly article addressing a tricky question. Where should names starting with 'the' appear in indices?
While contemplating this issue, she looked through indices filled with names like The American Journal of Psychiatry, and The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics on one hand, but British Journal of Pharmacology and Journal of Microscopy on the other.
Ms Browne's work involves creating alphabetical lists of key terms that appear in books, so readers can find the material they want. So the 'the' question is crucial to indexers like her.
But throughout her 18-year career she grew increasingly aware that the humble 'the' was a problem.
"I don't know why I started thinking about it," she says from her home in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.
"In indexing, we follow rules but sometimes the rules don't make sense and that bothered me."
The conundrum with 'the' is deciding how to index names or titles that include it, she explains. Should 'The Who' be indexed as 'Who, The', or 'The Who'?
The key question is finding a method that would make the index easiest to use, Ms Browne says.
Her deceptively simple solution was published in 2001 in the journal The Indexer.
Index entries for names with 'the' in them should be indexed both with and without the 'the', so to speak, she says.
"I decided, look, people think in different ways, so let's put it in the index in two places."
It was a win-win solution, and a logical conclusion.
"Similar arguments apply to 'a' and 'an', but these are beyond the scope of this article," she notes in her paper.
Ms Browne says the indexing skills she needs to resolve issues such as the 'the' dilemma are similar to those needed for scientific endeavour.
"I think they both have a mix of the analytical and the creative," she says.
"You need to focus very carefully, but you also need to be able to take a broad point of view."

RSS

Now the move on to RSS.

I found the instructions rather confusing. Luckily Maureen was on hand to show me what to do and it's actually rather simple. Strange how the "gentle guide to internet feed" web page seemed to take 5 minutes to explain the idea unsuccessfully, while Maureen explained it successfully in one sentence.

"You just look for the RSS logo, and copy and paste it here on blogline."

Big thumbs up to Maureen for being more practical than all the silicon valey egg heads!!

The difficulty of setting up

I'm off to a good start.
The technical side of creating the blog and posting on it has been mastered.

The most difficult part is trying to get a blog name and address that hasn't been used.
When you are trying to name it after yourself, and the system recommends you use "(insert name here)27" you start to wonder just how unique you are, if 26 other people with your name already have blogs on here...

First test post

First test post