I’m comparing a photo site I visit on Safari and Firefox. Safari handles the JavaScript fine. Firefox doesn’t. I’m hopeful that the Adobe/Mozilla deal will help resolve that problem.
Monthly Archive for November, 2006
I just read on TV Squad that Voltron is coming to the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim program. The episodes start this Monday but air really early on in the morning. I’ll be firing up the TiVo/DVR/Magical Recording Device hooked up to my TV and recording all the episodes and relive a great childhood memory.
My younger brother and I watched Voltron religiously when we were kids. Something about the animation drew us to it - well before we knew what anime was. We enjoyed the story too with its space theme, robots (that transformed - similar to the GoBots and the Transformers which we also enjoyed), monsters, battles, swords, missiles, and other normal boyhood interests.
We had the toys - several different versions of them - and played with them so much we ruined them. Of course, we were kids and we didn’t think they would be collectibles at the time. What kid does? We watched every episode, too. And while we didn’t have a chance to record them like we did some of our other favorite shows, we always were on the lookout for them hoping to enjoy them all over again. Now we can.
I know I’ll be recording them this time… now where are those blank DVDs?
So BlogMailr worked, sort of.
It posted the email I sent but it thought the post failed and retried to post it again. But it did post the first time and I got duplicate posts. I think because I ping a lot of ping servers post messages time out and blogging apps think things crapped out.
I don’t know if its one ping service that’s not responding or just that pinging takes time and the 30 or so services I use aren’t finishing before the timeout thresh hold.
Oh well, I guess I have to use the crappy email a post thing that comes with WordPress.
Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry.
While I was working on one of my other websites, I was interrupted by a phone call from Network Solutions. I had thought about registering a domain with them - as I have done with them in the past - but decided against it because of the cost. They called to see why I started the transaction and didn’t finish.
I was so upset that they called me on such a trivial matter I said the price was too high and I wanted to go elsewhere… somewhere where they respected my privacy and didn’t call me to get undeserved business. To that, the caller had nothing to say and actually got offended that I reacted that way! How dare I call them on their unethical practice!
I don’t mind a follow call to see how I would rate the business I gave them but to call me up at 8:30pm just to try and get my business is not a way to earn it. The better way to earn it would be to stop peddling expensive registrations and useless add on services that people don’t need let alone understand why they need or don’t need it. They rip off the ones that’s don’t understand and they annoy the ones that do.
I don’t know who the best registrar is and everyone has their favorite. One friend of mine like Joker. Another likes DynDNS. Still, others prefer GoDaddy (for some reason) and many use their hosting provider. I’ve used them all and only Network Solutions has ever invaded my privacy; I suspect they use that information for other reasons besides follow ups.
Apple promotes their software and hardware as products that just work. I guess it worked on me because I bought Mac mini thinking it would solve many of my computer problems. And while it did get rid of some, it created others… others that I haven’t even overcome yet (and don’t know if I will).
The first thing is that Flash player doesn’t seem to work correctly in Google Analytics. The bottom two windows - the Geo Map Overlay and the Visits by Source - show up just fine. The top two - Visits and Pageviews and Visits by New and Returning - do not. The only way I can get that information is if I change the size of the browser window. Now I’ll admit that this is in Firefox 2.0 and under Safari, it looks just fine. I’m not saying its a fault of Apple but it is an example of things not working - even if it isn’t their product that’s not. But the next and biggest problem I have is their fault.
Hello! I’m an Mac. And I’m a iPod. We should be able to talk to one another but we can’t. It must be because my iPod also talks PC because it was working perfectly with my PC and, for my Mac, it barely works at all. The problem is the iPod will not stay mounted and synchronizing ends after a few seconds. I know its not complete despite what the GUI tells me; I have changed playlists and downloaded music that never get propagated to the iPod after it says its done. Futhermore, my iTunes library has 8699 songs in it; during the initial loading (after restoring it 5 times) it says coping songs x of 8670. Where did the other 19 songs go? In an attempt to fix this problem, I’ve restored the iPod to the Mac format (several times) and changed what port (First, USB then Firewire) that the iPod was connected to. So far, I’m on my 6th reloading and I’m not confident it will work this time around either.
Another iTunes problem, it will NEVER remember my password for the iTunes store. I’ve asked that it remember it three times now… and I’m sure I’ll have to enter it again. I know I’ve told it to remember it; I did check that box. But every time I buy a song, I’ve got to fire up the keyboard just to get my music. I don’t buy a lot of music but I don’t want to waste my time typing in a password just to get what I want. That’s like signing the credit card slip every time for a 99 cent purchase. I might as well not buy the songs if the software isn’t going to work properly.
Those seem to be the big things right now. I’m sure more will follow as I go deeper into the OS. I know that much of what I face is a learning curve. It took me a few days to get used to the Debian Linux kernel for Ubuntu; the Darwin kernel might take as long too; the command lines are different and the keyboard shortcuts aren’t like those in Windows.
Like I said, those aren’t big deals. But the Flash Player and the iTunes/iPod combo was one of the main reasons for me wanting to spend the $$$ on the Mini. Without it working properly, I’m right back to where I was with Ubuntu.
