Sunday, December 31, 2006

Skewing the stats

So apparently, our chi will be out of whack for 2007 if we post fewer blogs in a month with 31 days (i.e. December) than in a month with 30 (i.e. November). Since I take the GMAT in 3 days, I'm doing whatever it takes to keep our chi in balance, so here you go - another post less than 3 hours after the previous one.

I must admit that the past 3 hours have been spent migrating our video of the week feature from Photobucket to Google Video, which involved a whole lot more fiddling with our blog template than it should have. As a result of all the tinkering, I figured out how to center the video and accompanying text in the sidebar though (XTML is quite different from HTML, you know)!

The main reason for this migration is that Google Video allows unlimited quantity and length - this keeps me from having to delete old videos, which results in dead links in our archived blogs. The second reason is that Photobucket includes a big frame around our video, whereas Google is all video - no frame. Third, lets face it, I already use my Gmail account to access Google Analytics and Blogger - so now I can use the same login to manage our videos. I guess I'm just being lazy, but only having to log in once to do everything for the blog is convenient.

Don't worry photobucket, inc. - I still plan to use you when I want to have a permanent link to a photo! (In other words, please don't delete my account).

2 comments:

Oliver said...

I am slowly starting to realize that Google is taking over my life. I use blogger, Google Analytics, Google Video, gmail (two accounts), Google Talk, and Google Calendar for the Deacons Quorum. The stuff works, so I really have no complaints.

Good luck on the GMATs.

Kam said...

Bryce, you're taking the GMAT? Did we miss something? Must have! This is the first Brian and I have heard about your GMATing. Business school is in the future?? Good luck!