Echoes and Waves

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Still can't believe ...

... all the good things that she did for me.
Sit back in the chair like a princess from a far away place.

I can't let you be because your beauty won't allow me.
Wrapped in white sheets like an angel from a bedtime story.

Have you forgotten how to love yourself.

Mark Kozelek, Have you forgotten.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

On Being

Presence.
Acceptance.
Gratitude.
Open heart.

And when you are caught in the rip tide of your thoughts and feelings, don't try to swim against the current. Doing so will just wear you out, possibly to the point of drowning. Let the flow take you. Stay with the swell of emotion. Stay. Breathe. Swim parallel to the shore until you are out of the current. Remember: presence, acceptance, gratitude, open heart.

And when you do leave, just come back.

Breathe.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Another one ...

... for my random musings :)

Frank Schnekenburger

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

My brain has a mind of its own.

Friday, February 2, 2007

Kayla

Can. OTCh Pacificgold’s Swiftfoehn Kayla CGC
August 11, 1993 - February 2, 2007
My Novice A dog, together she and I discovered the wonderful world of competitive obedience and canine performance,
and made so many wonderful friends along the way.
Kayla was Frank’s camping partner (winter and summer),
and rescued him from being lost in the woods on more than one occasion.
Kayla’s last generous gift was a donation to science. A blood sample was sent to the Broad Institute at MIT.
As part of the Canine Genome Project, they are researching the genes for melanoma in goldens among other breeds.
Kayla is now with her best buddy, Portia the lab.
Rest peacefully, old girl, you’re always in our hearts

Marilyn, Frank, & Java

Kayla at Neys ~ Quinzee Queen ~ ca 2001

Monday, January 1, 2007

Blogger Tip: Youtube video player on phone

Blogger makes it easy to embed a youtube video into a blog post. Typically the post will display the youtube video player with the selected video. However, on some phones the video player might not be displayed. The problem may be in the class attribute of the iframe tag being assigned "BLOG_video_class".

To check for this issue, open the post for editing. Ensure the view is set to HTML View. Look at the class attribute of the iframe tag. If it is assigned the text "BLOG_video_class", delete that text (leave it as class="") or delete the class tag and text and quotes altogether.

Blogger Tips

HTML elements in a title

HTML code in a post

Compose and HTML Views

Youtube video player on phone

Blogger Tip: Compose and HTML Views

Blogger provides two views for editing: Compose View and HTML View.

The Compose View functions as a conventional word processor. The editor displays content largely as it will appear when posted. The HTML View functions as a plain text editor. It is suitable for working with HTML code. From both views you can use Preview to see what the contents will look like when posted.

You can switch between views by selecting from the drop-down list located at the left end of the editor toolbar.

Compose View

HTML View

While the Compose View may be easier to use, the HTML View allows you to incorporate CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and other webpage components into your post.

Blogger Tip: HTML code in a post

You can embed HTML code within a post. The code can range in complexity from a single HTML element to well-formed HTML script. In the latter case, you can include CSS, Javascript, jQuery and other features for building webpages.

To enter and edit HTML code, switch the editor to HTML View.

The following element will display a paragraph with the phrase 'Hello world!!':

<p>Hello world!!</p>

The following code will display a paragraph with the phrase 'Hello world!! (click to hide)' in red text. When the text is clicked, the paragraph will be hidden:

<style>
#p_1 { color:red; }
</style>
<script>
function hide() {
  var e = document.getElementById("p_1");
  e.style.display="none";
}
</script>  
<p id="p_1" onclick="hide()">Hello world!! 
  (click to hide)</p>

This code lacks the <html>, <head> and <body> elements of a well-formed webpage because those are in the template that Blogger provides. The code gets placed within the <body> element of that template. As such, the <style> and <script> elements are not placed in the <head> element, which is where they belong. Hopefully things render ok anyway (even Blogger places some of its own <style> and <script> elements within <body>).

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Blogger Tip: HTML elements in a title

You can embed certain HTML elements in the title of a blog post. For example, the following code uses the anchor element to define a link to a video on another website:

<a href="https://vimeo.com/99695528">Taoism</a>

This will display 'Taoism' as the title, which when clicked will take the user to the specified video.

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