HTML Restrictions Suck

Well that’s no fun.

Back in the old days when I was writing on Blogger I could embed all sorts of fun stuff into my posts.  Anything you can put together inside of an HTML tag was fair game.  I used to put all sorts of goofy mp3 players and countdown clocks.  With both a gig coming and RPM about to start I thought it would be wacky to find some countdown clock websites that generate HTML code and put ’em onto a blog post.

I looked at three or four.  No dice.  They all use an HTML tag that wordpress.com blocks.

Aw, fiddlesticks.

Two days and about 4.5 hours until the gig.

One day and 7.5 hours until RPM.

That would have been so much cooler if it was a countdown clock.  Bummer.

Oh well, have a flyer (again).

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Fireworks

I was wondering when Methuen would be holding its Fourth of July fireworks display.  I went to twitter and BANG, there was this:

Hmmm… ineteresting, WordPress.com… I thought that would come out with the image of the tweet and the poster attached to it.  Ahh, WordPress.com and it’s fear of HTML.  Shame.

 

ADDENDUM: Well the images are there.  So I guess what I am really lamenting is a Visual editor that actually shows what will be on the actual post.  I could have previewed it, but I didn’t.  Oh well.  Sorry WordPress.com.

The Bruins Beat the Lightning

I just realized something…

If I can’t embed video…

I can’t post NHL highlights…

Oh no!

Does the embed tag work?

Does just posting the link work the way it does with youtube videos?
http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?hlg=20122013,2,303

No!  Neither way worked!

I want to share the three Bruins goals because they were all worthy of highlight films (the Tampa Bay goals were too, but who cares)… But I don’t think I can!

The horror!

youtube has highlights galor from last night’s Penguins vs Canadiens game, but that was a nationally televised game.  Oh, and thanks for beating the Habs, Pens.  We appreciate it.

There is a huge game tonight for the Bruins as they face the Canadiens.  There’s not to much at stake, just first place in the Northeast division and the Eastern Conference.  That’s all.

Go Bruins!

Screw you, WordPress.com!