Apparently, the switch over to the new version of Blogger also kicked out a bunch of emails to the subscription list. As far as I can tell all the emails that didn't get sent out while BloggerPro was having some issues in late May-early June are all being sent out now. I'm sorry for cramming your inbox, but I don't have much control over it, consider it getting caught up on all the messages you missed earlier, all at once. :) Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark|
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Friday, June 20, 2003
Change over
Looks like Blogger switched me over to their new system this evening. I am now checking to make sure everything works, please let me know if you find something that doesn't!
How can the same person in the office leave his PC logged on and Outlook open while he's not even in the office, and then two days later sit in his office all day long without even opening Outlook? What is the thinking process, is there a thinking process? I don't understand..
Dave is complaining about Verizon. The "install" of the DSL service branded his browser, changed his homepage and changed all the email server settings. Yeah, Roadrunner's "install" did the same thing, when all it really needed was the gateway IP and DNS servers. In fact, once I got my router pointed at the correct gateway, I didn't need ANY of the other crap that an install would have put on any of my machines!
Actually with dial-up it's even worse. Can you even get a list of local numbers for AOL without using their software (what is it, 150MB now?) to download the list? Let alone actually creating a connection? Nope. I tried to use SBC/Yahoo/Prodigy while on the road and had to install all of their junk, including Yahoo Messenger and Parental Controls, to get it to automatically grab a local number for me. The funny thing is, once you find where they have the access numbers, you can manually create all the local connections you want and uninstall all of their software. You never needed any of that stuff to actually connect to the internet. AOL doesn't work that way. But it could, if it wanted to. How much cheaper could their service be if they just mailed you your username, password, local dialup number, mail server and DNS info and let you enter that to get connected? How much faster would you get connected to the internet if that was all you needed? It takes me all of about 2 minutes to setup a new dialup connection on my laptop, about the same as it takes to add a new machine to my home network and point it to the router as the internet connection. Try getting your "install" CD's done that quickly!
So I promised Buzz, after some email exchanges, that I'd download a trial version of ActiveWords sometime soon. Now, this particular piece of software has been on my radar since I first saw Scoble using it at Gnomedex I back in 2001. The problem I've had with it, and the reason I've never really bothered to try it out before, is all me. It's actually a nice little tool, that I'm sure would come in handy for a lot of people in a lot of situations but I don't know how I'd use it. I've been using Windows since version 3.1. I've gotten pretty used to using it, and I don't know that I can handle a major change in the way I use my computer! We'll see, I'm going to load it on the laptop, which seems to me the one machine that I usually try and be quicker on, and I'll let you all know after I've been using it for awhile how it works, and whether it makes enough difference to get me to change the way I compute! Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark|
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Wednesday, June 18, 2003
It's here
Remember this from Monday? It arrived at my office this afternoon. Let the learning curve begin!
Well there are many reasons why I'm not a professional web designer but this is one of them. I noticed something odd going on with Angela's template the other night. Her blog had a link which was malformed. There was a missing quote at the end of the URL she was linking to. In IE it, naturally, caused the link not to show up, but other than that everything looked fine. In Mozilla, however, the entire page just never loaded. Why the two completely different behaviors? I don't know. It was one lousy quote mark, yet I had to go over the entire template with a fine tooth comb to find it, just to get the page to load in Mozilla, even though it worked pretty much OK in IE.
Now since I'm not a professional, if there's something here that doesn't work in one certain browser, I can say, too bad! But, if I were a professional, and I was making an ecommerce site, I couldn't really do that, could I? I'd have to design around all the various ways that IE, Mozilla, Safari, Netscape, etc. handle things. Not only that, but I'd have to design so that those people who have never updated their browsers from IE or Netscape version 3.0 could still use the site. I don't even have that kind of patience. Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark|
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Monday, June 16, 2003
Email hoax
Have you, or anyone you support gotten the "You have until July 1st to opt-out of having credit bureaus share information with anyone, etc..." email? I've had a couple of people here get it, since it's that time of year again, closing in on July 1. I've been pointing them to this link.
OK, so not really a new hobby, just some new toys for a current hobby, photography. My lovely wife has been in touch with her aunt, who has recently purchased a new camera, and she has agreed to sell Angela her old one, which Angela is buying as my birthday present! So, in a few short days, I will have one of these to play around with, along with a couple of different lenses, etc. I've never had an SLR or a manual focus camera before. It should be a fun learning experience, and should result, in combination with the digital camera and all of it's lenses, in getting a pretty good range of different types of pictures. I'm excited!
Anyone know what the best websites for photography tips and techniques are? I'm sure I'll be doing some online research before the camera gets here.
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