According to the W3C Markup Validation Service the snippet suggested by youtube to embed video isn’t valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Google to the rescue! A quick search revealed the following compliant alternative:

<div style="text-align:center">
  <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width:425px; height:350px"
data="http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO_ID">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO_ID">
    </param>
  </object>
</div>

(Source: http://www.wildbits.de/2006/04/02/youtube-xhtml/)

Today I felt the sudden urge to reanimate this place. It has been a while since my last post and that while was well spend, kind of. I went back to school and started studying and moved to the other side of the country. And as far as productivity goes, that was pretty much it. The rest of the time was wasted with music and beer, wine and cigarettes. Besides that I’ve been crawling through dungeons an hostile landscapes for ages in an (in)famous MMO. Honestly, that’s pretty much it. Anyhow, today I updated WP to the latest version and although the layout of my sidebar is a bit mixed up, all essential functions are up an running.

If anyone is actually stopping by, come back anytime soon for there probably will be, well, things and stuff..

Just installed Spam Karma 2 which makes a good impression when it comes to functionality.. on the other hand, usability is another topic (As I mentioned some days ago, I might be just stupid as well. A third possibility wold be that I wasn’t paying much attention for I played EQ2 on the other box.. but I guess that counts as being stupid, too). I just deleted all comments.. somehow I thought I’d have to re-aprove the already moderated comments by selecting them within the SK2-plugin and click ‘moderate’. Guess I thought wrong. A nice clean cut..

Lesson learned (jah, sure.): think before clicking, read before guessing, make a fscking backup of the fscking database before screwing around with your blogsoft. What’s ‘backup’ supposed to mean anyway?

Just updated to WP 1.5.2. Smooth and easy.

Now I have to get some feasible anti-spam mechanism.. this is getting really annoying. Just in case some texan-poker-dumbfsck or his assfaced associates from similar fscking companies missed it, I say it again: Fuck you!. Yeah, I know, bots..

There’s other things I want to do, too. Removing the monthly archives from the front-page, adding some about/contact page and maybe look for another design template or get behind it and customize the default one to some extend. If I can get my lazy ass up..

Just found WordPressDash, and you guess right, a Dashboard Widget especially for WordPress. Including category support. Not as comfortable as ecto but still, very usable and very simple. Maybe more suited for blogging quickies..

*update*
Turns out that category support doesn’t seem to work properly.. what’s up with WP and cats?