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Testing trackbacks with George’s website

It might be useful one day…

This is a test post to demonstrate how to use the SlideShow Pro flash slide show control.

if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) {
alert(”This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js.”);
} else {
AC_FL_RunContent(
‘codebase’, ‘http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0′,
‘width’, ‘562′,
‘height’, ‘447′,
’src’, ’slideshow’,
‘quality’, ‘best’,
‘pluginspage’, ‘http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer’,
‘align’, ‘middle’,
‘play’, ‘true’,
‘loop’, ‘true’,
’scale’, ’showall’,
‘wmode’, ‘window’,
‘devicefont’, ‘false’,
‘id’, ’slideshow’,
‘bgcolor’, ‘#000000′,
‘name’, ’slideshow’,
‘menu’, ‘true’,
‘allowFullScreen’, ‘true’,
‘allowScriptAccess’,’sameDomain’,
‘movie’, ’slideshow’,
’salign’, ”
); //end AC code
}

And then just a regular image.

I’ve just written my first wordpress template.  You can see it in action on George’s new vegan blog www.animalsnotingredients.co.uk.
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So it turns out it was FreeBSD all along.
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So after being completely impressed with wordpress on days one and two, day three provided me with a bug.  I was unable to add any categories (would complete the form, hit submit and nothing would happen).  It’s obviously a problem with ome crazy javascript, as turning that off in firefox allowed me to add categories.  [...]