No Free Dr. Pepper for Me

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Dr. Pepper promised everyone free Dr. Pepper if Guns and Roses released their album, Chinese Democracy, in 2008. G n' R at long last delivered, but not Dr. Pepper, at least not for me.  I tried foolishly for too long yesterday to get some at http://drpepper.com/freedrpepper .  The offer ...

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 ...

Chromium for Mac is here but is very unstable

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Chromium   Slashdot has word of Chromium, a port of the Google Chrome browser for Linux and Mac from Codeweavers. I'm using it on my Mac as I type this post.  Chromium let me insert images via the "Add media" feature in WordPress, which is more than what Firefox and Safari let me ...

Unwanted Red Lines and Errors in Google Reader

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Please click the above screen grab to actually see the red lines. Google Reader in Internet Explorer jumbles the bottom options and cuts off the time stamp when zooming. So I've been getting these red lines between stories in Google Reader ever since the beta testing of Firefox 3.  And they ...

Error of the Day: Firefox Tabs

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

So this happened when the power went out.  Upon rebooting, I restored my previous Firefox session and low and behold: no "x" on two of the tabs to close them out.  Very strange.

Error of the Day

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

This error is courtesy of the Mozilla Firefox automatic update feature.  I believe it was encountered during last Tuesday's world record attempt of most downloads ever in a 24 hour period.  Firefox 3 was downloaded over 8 million times in a day.  Guinness is currently reviewing the attempt.  And yes, ...