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Last week's conference exposed me to the wonderful Mr. Deity video series. The episodes are available on You Tube or through the podcast directory on iTunes.

I've been on a bit of a video binge lately posting several videos from YouTube here. This can be done several ways, including using the code supplied by video sites such as YouTube. The problem for someone who wants to keep their HTML valid is that YouTube posts the video snippet using <embed> tags which aren't valid HTML. However, like it does for many things, Drupal provides an easy solution. The video filter module makes it easy to put a style tag in a post and have the video embedded. And best of all it does so cleanly with valid <object> tags.

It's worth noting there are several other modules like the embeded medai field that can make the process work in other ways if one is developing CCK types and wants to include videos. So if you're looking for a solution that does even more be sure to check these out.

Continuing on yesterday's video binge here is a great video about plans of the Southern Nevada Water Authority to suck up water from fragile parts of Nevada and pipe it to Las Vegas. The video looks at some of the impacts on areas of rural Nevada. It doesn't get very far into how risky this plan is for Las Vegas. Although SNWA would like to spend billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars to put in the pipeline the risks involved with having a whole city depend upon a facility that is impossible to secure flies in the face of the concerns of homeland security.

The sad news of Tim Russert's passing comes today. Since I posted a video this morning here's a video of one of Tim Russert's great interviews on Meet the Press.

It is so very sad to see someone so young pass so early.

Here's a little video for the start of the new year:

We've had a long weekend but I saw a video tonight that warrants my first YouTube post. This video is just too funny for a life-long gardener.

While waiting for the umpteenth disk reconstruction recently I came across this knowledge base article on Apple's site. They indicate it may cause some inconvenient problems. For me it's cost the data on the disk several times. The incompatibility seems to cause the master data block on the disk to be so corrupted that the only recourse is to begin anew. I'd love to do as the article suggests and call Canon. I wonder when I'll get a response? The problem seems to be primarily the ZR-40, ZR-45 and ZR-50 cameras.