Goodbye, lov.li
Dear lov.li community,
As you have probably noticed, lov.li has not doing very well lately. It has been plagued with technical difficulties, and some more fundamental problems. The founders of lov.li have moved on to other jobs and have not been able to give it the attention that it deserves. This is a shame because, although we have worked very hard to make lov.li a great community and showcase for artists like you, what made lov.li amazing was your contribution. The art and crafts that you all create have inspired us and all the visitors to the site. But, because we have moved on, we need to shut down the site. It's not safe to keep a site like lov.li, with the personal information of many people, running without proper attention. It may be back in another form at some point. We will keep your email addresses to notify you in case we come back in a different form, but all other information will be deleted, and we will not distribute your email in any way.
Please post any stories you might have of people you met or good things about lov.li, and any other ideas and suggestions you might have on this blog post.
Attention anyone who works with disabled children!
In response to the budget shortfall, the Governor’s Reduction Order has included the reduction or elimination of most services provided to children with developmental disabilities. The Order includes the elimination of all family support, elimination of comprehensive in-home supports for children, reduction in foster care, residential programs, proctor care, and raising case management ratios from 1-45 to 1-300. We need your story to help inform policy makers and the public about the impact of these cuts on real people!!
Name: (We will use initials only if we use your story)
Address: (the address is only for purposes of identifying legislative districts)
Contact Information: Phone / Email
Please describe your child / family:
Please describe the services / supports / funding you receive to help care for your child:
Please describe the impact on your family if you are no longer able to receive these services / supports / funding:
If you respond, please return to: Kweit@ocdd.org
Converting GotoWebinar recordings to Flash to embed
For work, I had to put a recorded GotoWebinar webinar on our website so people could see it anytime. Easy, right? No.
For one thing, GotoWebinar will only record the webinar on PC. At my all-Mac job, I had to drag in an old XP laptop. Once I brought it up I saw what I was missing in the Mac version - lots of features and a better interface. Oh, well. GotoWebinar Mac works fine.
The recording went off without a hitch. I had been warned to choose the WMV format rather than the native GTW format and I did so.
But then - what the hell! The video will play, but refuses to convert. Final Cut? Nope. Compressor? nah. FFMPEG? zilch. These files use some strange codec that doesn't play well with others. Lots of others have the same problem. Finally I found away that worked. My goal was to get it up on blip.tv, and then embed it on our site.
Here was my solution:
- Record in WMV format.
- Copy the file onto the mac.
- Download Flip4Mac WMV.
- Open it with Quicktime.
- In Quicktime, File-> Export for Web and select Desktop
- It will create a folder; open the folder and find the .m4v file
- Upload the m4v file to blip.tv
- It works, great quality, small file size, and audio too!
I bet you could also convert the m4v file to .flv using ffmpeg and then host it yourself using Flowplayer.
Flip4mac's free version will put a watermark on your video. If you can't live with that, buy a license for $29. I did. Well, my company did anyway.
Good luck!
“A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.” -Wilma Askinas
-Wilma Askinas
Burning one of my Penguin candles
Holidays at Kahneeta
We had a wonderful couple of days at Kahneeta. Snowball fights, hot springs, rolling in the snow, good food, Wii games, and good movies.