I’d like to thank Brian Gardner, part of the team at Revolution, who sent me the original code to work with.

Update: The Answer

The answer is there is no answer, er, no solution that is. I read all of the following articles before I found out what was happening:

• Topic: Can’t open videos on IE7
• Embedded Youtube video Crashes Ie
• Vimeo won’t view in Internet Explorer
• internet explorer cannot open the internet site – operation aborted – IE7

No one had a definitive answer. Finally got the scoop at http://news.softpedia.com/:

One error message that plagued Internet Explorer 7, but that won’t make it into the final version of Internet Explorer 8 refers to “operation aborted” messages. In IE7, operation aborted errors, marked by the associated dialog box featured in the screenshot on the left, prevented users from surfing certain websites, serving navigation error screens instead. IE7 simply failed to offer any way around the error, preventing the accessing of specific websites affected by a HTML parsing bug. However, with the next iteration of the Internet Explorer browser, end users will no longer face the operation aborted dialog box, starting with IE8 Beta 1.

I unplugged all my plugins. I removed all my widgets. I deleted the old template and uploaded a brand new copy. Nothing worked. I fucking hate IE7. But there is an inescapable fact…

So I’ll just have to quite using embedded video for a while till I find the real solution.

Defending Obama’s Foreign Policy
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By Tom Hayden
September 29, 2008

It is as if frustration with Obama is greater than anything some people on the left feel towards McCain. I feel their pain, but let me offer this formula: no candidate will move further left than their base demands and public opinion allows.

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I personally wish he hadn’t, but Obama has decided to close off any possible attacks from the right or the media on his national security policies and credentials. I believe that this stance will have serious consequences, like John Kennedy encountered at the Bay of Pigs. But I also know that his position is a political one, and can be (and should be) taken up by the left after election day.

-Shorter Messer Hayden: Hold your nose and pull the lever you stinking Hippies.

And in other news:

• End of Iraq’s Awakening?
• The Next Step on the Bailout.
• Suspected U.S. missile strike kills 6 in Pakistan

and to figure out what the hell this means:

Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in xxxxx on line 99

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at xxxxx) in xxxxx on line 269

This is the error I get every time I try to import my Blogger post’s to WordPress. I’ve worked through my first problem with plugging in the appropriate code into my wp-config.php file. Seems it was just my luck the caveat that there is a “99% chance you won’t need to change this value” for the data base host from “local host” was not how things work with my hosting on Bravenet. It needed to be changed to “sql1.bravehost.com” I’ll just have to keep checking the FAQ’s and member forums for the answer to my blogger import problem.