I've received spam messages with some really weird subject lines but one that made it through my filters today appears to be no less than a personal attack: "Those who can't write, write help files" :)

Apparently, the answer is five, according to Rachel, who reportedly kept count during my FlashForward video interview! Oh, and I'd never taught of myself as Mr. Macromedia before! I hope I get a fancy suit or something. Or at least a sidekick. A furry one would be nice! :)

I just had a heck of a time embedding a SWF file (the YouTube video from the previous post) into my WordPress post. Even when using the plain HTML editor, WordPress apparently does funny things to my HTML. Grrr! Feels like I'm using FrontPage or something!

Anyway, so I figured out that the problem was because WordPress was trying to convert the quotation marks in my code to smart quotes. Lovely! This was, of course, messing up the JavaScript required for SWFObject. So I tried putting the contents of the script tags into HTML comments, thinking WordPress might ignore the comments. And it did. But it also munged my newlines, thereby actually commenting out my JavaScript code. Grrr x 2! Finally, I got it to work by using multiline comments.

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... think twice before playing this video of Patrick Stewart if you feel you might -- in the eternal words of one of my ex-girlfriends -- "lose all respect" for Jean Luc. If you'd rather remember him in his eloquent poetry, do not play this video. For all I can tell you is that in it, he doth sing. And not an old time Klingon battle song either.

Does anyone know what this is from?

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I just saw this on Digg: A Processing applet that graphs out a visual representation of the structure of web pages. So I ran it on some of mine:

Let's start with this site. It would be interesting to compare it to other WordPress sites. (more...)