Thing 9: All better now.

Ok,

So yesterday I made a slide show on Zoho, or Zo ho or whatever, and I found it to be fairly easy to use. Power Point has more bells and whistles, literally because you can add sounds to your presentation (as well as animation), but for the simple access this provides, I think it is great. If you are going to be traveling around while giving a presentation, you don't need to even bring a flash drive or worry about whether or not the computer where you are going will be compatible with your slide show. This allows you to always have access to your work, unless the internet is down where you go, or the server crashes on the Zoho site, or the little purple people who live in the walls finally escape and bring our civilization crashing down around us.

If the last scenario happens, admittedly the last thing you need to worry about is your presentation, unless it is a presentation on how to defeat the little purple people who live in the walls in the event of their escape. In that case, you had better go ahead and bring a backup flash drive with you, we may need it.

But I digress; I initially tried to put my slide show into the area where I stuck the Meebo talk thingy. That is when I got all the error messages about the xml needing a ";" after the occurrence of the DOC something or other, blah blah blah computer speak. I know just enough html to be dangerous, but I haven't tried my hand at xml, so I don't know what it was talking about. Then I thought,

"Hey, I should try and see what happens if I just post the iFrame into a post."

Look out, because that worked. I am not sure what the difference is, but I assume that the code used to create the left side navigation was not designed to accept an iFrame; a widget yes, but not an iFrame. And yes I do talk to myself while blogging, so be glad that my sanity-or lack thereof-doesn't show here in the written word.

So there you have it, on the post below, my slide show. I had to adjust the width of the iFrame in the code so it would display correctly, but now I am satisfied with the outcome.

It is the same Mr. Shoe story I created in Flickr, but I think it has more of a narrative quality in this form. I did not use anymore photo driven Things this time, because I need to increase my Flickr holdings so I am not repeating the same images over and over again. I'll make a point to do that soon.

The next Thing I tried to do was make a database with Lazybase. The link worked just fine from the 23 Thing @ NELIN blog, but when I tried to create a database, I got a server error, so I assume they are having issues. Maybe I'll try again at some other time. It could be fun.

Next, the Thing that is known as 10!