Daniel’s Pilgrimage

Here is a little video clip of our nephew Landon walking a couple steps:

I’ve played with a few different web projects this week. As you can see if you are visiting my site instead of just reading the feed, I switched my theme. I’m using the a tweaked version of the wp-andreas09 theme. I’m also using the new Wordpress widgets now. They make switching around your sidebar(s) a matter of drop and drag instead of editing your theme. I also wrote a widget wrapper for the flickrrss plugin so I could still use my flickr photos in the sidebar. I’ve also experimented with the flash satay method of embedding flash. The videos on here now use FlowPlayer with this embedding method and my blog is standards compliant again. I’ve been in some discussions with the author of FlowPlayer to see how to work out any kinks in it.

Future projects include: making a video plugin for Wordpress that uses the FlowPlayer work I’ve been doing, making some stand-alone web software to manage and display videos/movies on a website, get back into creating a web-based ticketing software for my company, and finish up a new wordpress theme that I’ve been playing with. Should be fun.

Nice weekend, even if it has been rainy. Friday we were gonna go to First Fridays, but it was raining so we bailed. Yesterday we did some more lawn work. Alicia planted more flowers out front and got mulch layed down. I mowed the grass, wee wacked, filled the hole out back and helped Alicia dig out a flowerbed out back. Hopefully I didn’t come into contact with any poison ivy this time. Oh, we got a new lawnmower. My parents gave us one of those non-powered ones when we moved down here. It got me through one mow, but it was killing me this time so I called Alicia(who just happened to be at Home Depot) and asked her to get an electric mower. It was sooo much easier. I’ll post some pictures of the yard and the new mower soon. Today we took a long walk around the neighborhood and hung out some, then Alicia had to work some.

Also of some interest to somebody… I’m killing off the discipledaniel moniker. If you have me on Google Talk please add danielfarrell76@gmail.com instead as that is what I am moving to. I don’t remember why I started using discipledaniel, but it was a long time ago and it’s time to retire it.

It’s not everyday I win an award, check it out here.

Glad I could be of help.