Oh, fantastic.  I installed an updated version of Viper’s Video Quicktags, and I can’t activate them.  In my plugins control panel, I click the Activate link, and the returned message is “Plugin deactivated.”  Yep.  Too bad I want it to be activated.

The bad news is that I hosed my earlier, working version of Viper’s Video Quicktags, so now my previously embedded videos don’t work.  Gah.

I desperately need to update WordPress, but I keep putting it off because it always seems like there’s crying and serious downtime involved.  Denny claims he knows a way to make it go smoothly, but I am suspicious.

I’m thinking about not posting Quicktime videos anymore, in part because it will make it easier for my non-Mac friends (the poor souls) to view them, plus for reasons unbeknownst to me the iPhone doesn’t seem to support Quicktime.  Go figure.

Anyway, whatever Flickr does to its Flash video in the conversion process does render it browser- and OS-agnostic, as well as mobile-friendly.  The only problem is that sometimes embedding things in WordPress turns into a giant mess.  Let’s try it, brave pioneers.

UPDATE:  embed attempts = FAIL.  I’ll have to look around for a WordPress plugin like I found for Quicktime.  Suggestions welcome.