technology

WordPress & Youtube

My apologies in advance for all the technical jargon.

My blog is self-hosted, meaning I own the domain and buy the space from Brinkster. Then I installed WordPress and make the magic happen.

Well today, I was trying to add my blog to my YouTube account so I could post videos automatically to rvaYM. I had a little trouble, until I encountered this fantastic tutorial:

http://tommasi.com.au/blog/2008/11/30/how-to-add-a-wordpress-self-hosted-blog-to-youtube/

So many thanks to Tom from the Down Under for making it happen!

WHY DOWNLOADING FIREFOX IS LIKE GETTING INTO COLLEGE

Somebody else linked to this yesterday, and I was amused and interested. How could downloading my own personal web browser of choice be like getting into college? This Firefox thing is a piece of cake compared to what I had to do to get into college, much less graduate:

Why downloading Firefox is like getting into college

A quick glimpse at just about any profession shows you that the vast majority of people who succeed professionally also went to college.

This could be because college teaches you a lot.

Or it could be because the kind of person that puts the effort into getting into and completing college is also the kind of person who succeeds at other things.

Firefox is similar.

Read on…

Macs come with Safari, and PCs come with Internet Explorer. Seth is saying that it takes effort and persistence to make Firefox your browser of choice, so only the most dedicated of computer users would make it happen.

Seth says only the most dedicated students will achieve the prerequisites to go to college, apply to college and finish college are the same kind of people who would download Firefox. Interesting.

EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE

I just got a message on Facebook from my first youth pastor. I knew he had been working on a new project for a while, but didn’t know what it was. He’s been working behind the scenes on EverythingMustChange.org. I haven’t had a chance to read Brian McLaren’s new book, which the site is based around, but I’ve heard great things. Kind of exciting to know the behind-the-scenes guys…