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A hilarious short film…. What if the Matrix ran on Windows? (note for the tech illiterate: when he’s talking about Ubunto at the end he’s talking about a popular Linux distribution from South Africa called Ubunto)

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now playing: Natasha Bedingfield – Pocketful of Sunshine

So I’ve found to be XHTML Strict for flash content I’ve had to hand-code the entry which I am not fond of as I would prefer it to be automatic. Luckily I have found a solution: pb-embedflash plugin for wordpress actually does handle this. All you need to do is paste the youTube link in the following fashion:

[ flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAME]
(without the space between the “[" and "flash"... had to do that so the code would show up)

There is also a button added to the "write post" screen which allows you more options. It's simply brilliant. However, take note that the other options the plugin gives you (like loading into an overlay) are not valid xhtml strict.

Example youTube: Beckham scores from 60 yards out!

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now playing: BT - Simply Being Loved (Somnambulist)

[via FoxyTunes / BT]

I pulled an almost all-nighter, but I was able to rewrite the entire theme from scratch and add some enhancements like AJAX commenting with direct replies, a tag cloud, reduced the number of categories, and most importantly my new theme validates against W3C for both CSS and XHTML Strict.

That’s right you read that correctly, I validate against Strict not Transitional.

Gotta say I did a lot of work in the past 9 hours (!) and now I’m going to get some sleep

Perhaps the best part of all of this is I was lukewarm about my last theme, but this new one I really love. My last one was an exploration into not fearing white space and this new one has been an exploration into using red, a colour I have been afraid to use for a long time. Having conquered both a fear of white and of red I fell rather accomplished at the moment.

I plan to fix just a couple remaining annoyances with the theme and package it up for distribution under the GPL titled “White as Snow”.

To bed I go… but first if you have not seen an Ariel Atom and you are a car guy you need to check out the below video.

So after spending a lot of time trying figure out a solution here it is:

Here is the code youTube will give you:

<object width=“425″ height=“350″>

<param name=“movie” value=“http://www.youtube.com/[videoAddress]“></param>

<param name=“wmode” value=“transparent”></param>

<embed src=“http://www.youtube.com/[videoAddress]“ type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=“transparent” width=“425″ height=“350″>
</embed></object>

<object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” style=”width:425px; height:350px;” data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/7_6B6vwE83U”><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/7_6B6vwE83U” /></object>