gmilburn.ca is now on Pair Networks… bear with me as I move everything over.

Things might look a little weird (ie missing thumbnails) for a little while, but don’t worry, I’m working on it Edit: Thumbnails should be taken care of now…

If you posted a comment in the last 12 hours or so it may have been lost – my apologies. There also appear to be a few comments out of order, but I’m working on it.

If you see any horrible errors that I should probably know about, please leave a comment!

I just finished setting up (well, mostly) a website for my dear girlfriend for her jewellery called Emily’s Trees. You should buy things from it!

First off, the Chicago Tribune ran a story about the Fermilab code letter, and I was flattered to be interviewed for the story. We’re still working on the middle section of the letter, so if anyone has any ideas, don’t be shy.

Secondly, I had a few people contact me asking how I embedded a high quality version the YouTube video for my Five Dollar Laser Show post. It’s surprisingly easy, you just need to add a little flag to the embed code and you’re ready to run.

For example, here’s the embed code that YouTube will give you:

<object width=”425″ height=”350″> <param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/mqe6Hg9U8JY”> </param> <embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/mqe6Hg9U8JY” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”350″> </embed> </object>

We need to add “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″ in after the link to our video (remember to change it in both the param and embed tags), giving us:

<object width=”425″ height=”350″> <param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/mqe6Hg9U8JY&ap=%2526fmt%3D18 “> </param> <embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/mqe6Hg9U8JY&ap=%2526fmt%3D18 ” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”350″> </embed> </object>

If you’re uploading high quality video to YouTube and will be linking to it via your blog/webpage, it’s a great little trick. There’s a drastic increase in quality for very little difference in load time.

For instance, compare the default quality YouTube video:

To the high quality YouTube video:

Far less compression artifacts, and an overall better picture. Highly recommended!

After some minor setbacks, gmilburn.ca is live!

Not much to look at presently, but I’ve moved my Homebrew AC website over from its old home at the University of Waterloo servers.