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2007 Oct 24, 10:12Without realizing it this was the page I was looking for three weeks ago.

Video Woes

2007 Aug 15, 3:30I've been experimenting with adding video to my webpage. I tried to embed video in my livejournal blog posts previously however ran into some issues with that. When creating the LJ post I added an tag but when I submit that tags turned into an

 pointing to a page with my video. Only the first of these appears to work. The RSS item for the corresponding LJ entry has a tag instead of my video. This is even less
useful than the iframe because it uses some internal id to identify the embed rather than a URI or something I could actually use.<br />
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As a place to store videos and possibly as a means around the previous issue <a href="http://www.youtube.com/sequelguy">I tried youtube</a>. YouTube provides <a href="http://youtube.com/rssls">RSS
feeds for their users</a> which is great for me since my page is made from combining RSS and Atom feeds. I've incorporated it into my site already although I'm still in need of a better icon, I don't
have a comments link at the bottom, and I'd like the text to flow around the video. I was able to hide the automatically added portion of the RSS item I didn't like using CSS. On the topic of YouTube
not giving me a lot of control over the description, it doesn't seem to allow HTML in the description of a video. I don't particularly care about free form HTML if only I could get some links!<br />
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Well I didn't try very hard to get HTML into my YouTube video description so there maybe something I can do about that. Otherwise, I think the better solution is to post videos to YouTube only as
storage like I do with photos on Flickr and use LiveJournal to talk more about particular videos. To get around the LJ video issues, I'm going to try creating some new tags in my blog post that LJ
hopefully won't mess with and will hopefully make it cleanly into my RSS feed. At that point I can use XSL to turn the new tags into the appropriate embed/object tags for the video.

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Checkers Database

2007 Jul 20, 9:09Checkers has been solved. All possible moves have been mapped.

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Resource Tools - IE7 XML Source View Upgrade Part 1

2007 May 9, 4:15I read about text/xml URI fragment resolution a few months ago. I was interested to find another kind of fragment reference other than the text/html URI fragment but of course I didn't find an implementation in IE, Firefox, or Opera. I decided to see how much work would be required to implement this in IE.

In IE and Firefox when you open an XML file that doesn't have an XML stylesheet the XML source is rendered with syntax highlighting. In IE I also noticed that the gold bar appears when you open an XML file off of your local machine. To me this suggested that the XML source was being rendered as HTML which I assumed was produced by running an XSLT on the source XML file. If so, I figured I could modify the XSLT to implement text/xml URI fragments. I ran FileMon to see if iexplore.exe loaded an XSLT file when opening an XML file. Only the XML file and MSXML3.DLL were opened and no XSLTs were loaded as files. My next hope for modifying the XSLT was if it existed as a resource in MSXML3.DLL. I did a findstr on the DLL for SCRIPT and found an XSLT so I decided to check for resources in MSXML3.DLL. Unfortunately my previous resource viewer didn't work correctly so I decided to write my own.

I created resource tools to view and modify resources in Windows modules. The viewer outputs HTML with links to the individual resources of a module using the res URI scheme that's built into IE. The modifier is a simple command line tool that replaces or adds one resource at a time to a module.

Using these tools I found that the XSLT was stored as a resource in MSXML3.DLL. I'll talk more about the existing XSLT and the one I replaced it with next time.

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HD View - Gigapixel Images and More (Tony Schreiner's WebLog)

2007 Apr 23, 1:46Control that does pan and zoom for high resolution images. As you zoom it dynamically loads more and more detail for that area.

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Trivial Convention for using HTTP in URN Resolution (RFC 2169)

2006 Jun 27, 11:54The Uniform Resource Names Working Group (URN-WG) was formed to specify persistent, location-independent names for network accessible resources, as well as resolution mechanisms to retrieve the resources given such a name. At this time the

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