Saturday, March 26, 2005
no-go for easter visiting; western tradition telelcourse asx file link;
i so wanted to go visiting this weekend, i really enjoy spending time with family. but toting my butt on a 600 mile round trip only 3 weeks after concluding a 2000 miler just wasn't sounding appealing :-(
i'm spending the weekend with that old “western tradition” telecourse i wrote about, oh, say, a year ago. what i did, though, was set up an asx metafile for wmp so that i could bypass the annenberg website stuff and just play all the episodes straight through. this also allowed me to put additional information in for each clip, and the overall course. and the best part is that i can put in start and end times for each clip to skip the two to three minutes of introductory and credit material in each of the 52 27½ minute clips, saving somewhere between two and three hours of viewing time. of course, i'm only done with the first eleven; i'll update the file with the completed times later.
mathml blurb from the string coffee table site (no, i won't link there, since it treats even root links as a trackback to the latest post, and i still get hits from the last time i did that. i feel bad about such web-herrings, but hey, it's not my fault.):
... MathML. To see the equations, you either need Mozilla (with the requisite fonts) or IE/Win users can download a plugin for MathML. ...
so here it is, the westerrn tradition telecourse asx file (< 20kb). enjoy ! basically, it's a packaged wmp playlist, so you could just load it from here, but i suggest right-clicking and saving the file on your own computer somewhere (perhaps in your videos folder), then loading it from there.
nifty thing, that asx format. i was thinking of creating mix-lists of various educational and entertainment resources. and it can link to live broadcasts, as well as flash, still images, etc.
in other news, craig made a humorous number theory goof the other day, which he quickly covered up. i was kidding him about it. i guess you could call it a prime rib ;-)
ooh, geek points for me ! (and a deduction for craig ;-)) now i can't get my mind off a visit to outback.
but, well, i've been bucking for extra geek points recently anyway, with that pi-day post a couple weeks ago, and then a misfired happy-spring mailing. i've been wondering off and on whether i should use mathml on this blog. i mean, there's enough crap here already without asking people to download and install more crap to be able to read this stuff. then again, if you've stayed with me this far, what the hell. the alternative is to load graphics (yuk), try and use text representations, or leave such shit out altogether. and you know i won't do that last option ;-)
hmm, seems to be a problem with mathml when posting in this particular blog engine - you're saved !
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