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Gotta Have the Blues

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In my opinion Blues Music should be slow, low and smooth. It shouldn't be upbeat or quick in tempo. I found this 5 hour blues mix on YouTube by accident and I just love coming back to it. Some people I know like to talk about music they "code to" and George Lucas said he likes to write scripts and stories to the classics.I write, too. I write the occasional blog post, but more importantly I write stories (when I'm not distracted by social media or blog posts) and this is the sort of music to which I like to write.

How to embed a PDF in Blogger [Updated]

I recently needed a way to embed a PDF file into a Blogger post. Simply put, sometimes when I'm around the internet it's easier to create a PDF using Chrome's print to PDF function versus a screenshot which might not catch the whole page. So I searched the interwebz. There were many websites purporting to know how to embed PDFs as view-able media by uploading the PDF to free hosting sites or Google Pages (Sites) or a variety of other avenues to approach this problem. Most of them relied on Google Drive and getting a link to the PDF file from the share  function and linking to the file on Drive. But that's not what I wanted to do, I wanted the PDF embedded in the blog post just like a picture or video. Unfortunately, you cannot load a PDF using the image uploader tool in Blogger. File type not supported and all that. However, it's a lot easier than the internet would have us believe. Tools Needed: PDF file Google Drive (Gmail account) Blogger (...