added post "coping with your family?" and improved cross browser vide…

…o support

source/_posts/2010-09-30_12-41-coping-with-your-family.markdown

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+---
+title: "Coping With Your Family?"
+---
+
+While you work at a MegaCorp "developing strategy", you long for a product that would keep you focused, and get you through the day.
+Sometimes you even dream of a device that could help you **cope with your family**.
+
+RIM understands your disconnected needs. Introducing the BlackBerry Playbook.
+
+<video width="640" height="360" preload="none" controls poster="http://s3.imathis.com/video/blackberry-coping-poster.jpg">
+  <source src="http://s3.imathis.com/video/blackberry-coping.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
+</video>
+
+[Full video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izMU64F_9sM) (Quote starts at 2:44)
+
+Message matters. I cannot relate to the person being described here. This is a perspective &mdash; beyond marketing &mdash; that defines the role of technology in our lives. Unless RIM makes some bold changes they'll never escape the corporate niche.
+
+Watch the [Playbook ad](http://quietube.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rbN9m3ywJ0), and compare that to [Apple's iPad commercial](http://quietube.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2BvVcSkNkA).
+By contrast, Playbook looks impersonal &mdash; even fictional. I mean, you barely see anyone holding it, or using it in a real setting. Some are even suggesting that [it doesn't exist](http://www.singularityhacker.com/2010/09/blackberry-playbook-doesnt-exist.html).
+
+I have far greater hopes that an Android tablet will someday compete with the iPad. Come to think of it, what ever happened to Chrome OS?

source/javascripts/octopress.js

@@ -55,24 +55,22 @@ function html5toFlash(){
   videos.each(function(video){
     source = video.getElement('source').get('src');
     if(!source.contains('mp4') || !Modernizr.video.h264){
-      flashvid = new Element('object', {
-        'width': video.get('width').toInt(),
-        'height': video.get('height').toInt() + 19 + 'px',
-        'type': 'application/x-shockwave-flash',
-        'data': flashplayerlocation
+      span = new Element('span').wraps(video);
+      flashvid = new Swiff(flashplayerlocation, {
+        width   : video.get('width').toInt(),
+        height  : video.get('height').toInt() + 29,
+        params  : {
+          movie : source,
+          wmode : "opaque",
+          allowfullscreen : "true"
+        },
+        vars : {
+          file : source,
+          image : video.get('poster'),
+          skin : flashplayerskin
+        },
+        container: span
       });
-      flashvid.adopt([
-        new Element('param', {
-          'name':'movie', 'value' : source
-        }),
-        new Element('param', {
-          'name':'allowfullscreen', 'value':'true'
-        }),
-        new Element('param', {
-          'name':'flashvars', 'value' : "file="+source+"&skin="+flashplayerskin
-        })
-      ])
-      flashvid.inject(video, 'after');
       video.dispose();
     }
   })