Mushi Battle

Link here. No one picks the butterfly type in Sapporo.

Art lesson

Watch, please!

Also...

It looks like I can spend more time with the boys instead of making art! Yay!

Will this be...

The thing that finally breaks the wild Pony?

Pieces of Things Housekeeping Forum

This post is a general forum related to general administration of the Pieces of Things blog.

Pieces of Things: How to Make a Link

Here is how you make a link:

<a href="http://piecesofthings.net">Pieces of Things</a>

This link will look like this:

Pieces of Things

Clicking the link text will take you the the URL you used in your link. Try it!

Pieces of Things: How to Embed YouTube Videos

Here's the code you should be copying into your post, in order to embed videos that play when clicked. Find this on the right-hand column of the YouTube video page. [note that after you copy the embeding link, you should click on the "Edit Html" tab at the upper right corner of the editing window before pasting].

To make your video fit better, change all of the widths in the embed code to 475 530 525, which is the width of the posts in this blog. There will probably be at least two instances of the "width" variable in the code. Change them all. NOTE: This works with nearly all embedable video players! Try it, you slobs!

Update: To get the movie to fit as best as possible, you'll need to change the height, too. Try a proportion calculator. Enter the embed tag's current dimensions for the original size, and enter 525 for the target (reproduction) width. Press "Calculate" and replace the current dimensions with the target dimensions in the embed tag (in both places).

Pieces of Things Analytics Notes

Authors should have access to the Pieces of Things Analytics Report at Google Analytics. Let me know if you don't, and would like access. It's kind of fun to browse through; to see how many people are reading what, and so on, and how people are finding us.

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You can now track how are Twitter feeds are received, as bit.ly, the URL shortener we use offers metrics on clicks via Twitter. Tweets consist of the title you give your post, and a link. So titles count!

@piecesofthings can be tracked here:
http://piecesofthings.bit.ly/

@piecescomments can be tracked here:
http://piecescomments.bit.ly/