Archive for the ‘Error of the Day’ Category

Songbird Update Error

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

I know. This is quickly becoming "look what Dipps f-ed up" -- my error blog. Maybe after this one, I'll take a break from the errors for a spell. This one happend when trying to update the free, open source media player Songbird from its first official release (out ...

Copy Error code -36

Monday, April 20th, 2009

This error grinded my copying to a halt.  Namely, copying from an external hard drive connected to Time Capsule to Time Capsule itself.  It reads: The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "" could not be read or written. (Error code -36) I didn't dig into this error as ...

Mac menu bar screw-up

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Ever had the menu bar, or whatever it's called, screw-up on a Mac like this? I have not, until now. I closed Cog, and it went away.

LiveChannel.com homepage problems?

Monday, January 5th, 2009

I just discovered LiveChannel.com, a site where you can download -- surely enough -- a little program called Live Channel.  With it you can watch various live . . . . wait a sec . . . I'm dumb.  The site is actually Livestation.com.  With the Livestation app you can ...

USPS Fail

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

The USPS website failing is particularly unusual, but Slashdot confirms it.  It must be true.

I Heart Blogger

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Man how I love Blogger.  This happened around 2:40 Central Time without a warning and I've got the blog hosted elsewhere.  It is time to migrate to WordPress.

Follow Cost: How annoying will it be to follow that certain someone on Twitter

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Considering following someone on The Twitter?  Check out Follow Cost.  This snappy tool asks: "How annoying will it be to follow blank on Twitter?"  Blank is where you type in who you are pondering to follow on The Twitter and Follow Cost will then spit out the average updates ...

Open Office Forbidden Error

Monday, October 13th, 2008

I'm trying to download Open Office 3.0, now native for Mac, this morning, and when I finally get the site to come up, I get the above error that reads: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /servlets/ContentHelmNoodle on this server. Anything the reads "Content Helm Noodle" is worth blogging.

Google Finance Error

Friday, October 10th, 2008

This is bizarre. I've been hitting the refresh quite frequently on Google Finance lately and the above screengrab popped up. I can't get it to go away in Firefox. No issues in Opera or Safari. Guess I'll have to try clearing my cache.

C-Span Embedded Player Error

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

So I thought I'd check out C-Span and see what they are serving up today.  And lo and behold I had almost forgotten that you need the ever crappy Windows Media Player or the equally crappy Real Player to tune into one of several channels of their content. Ben Bernanke and ...