Friday, October 30, 2009
Is it just me?
posted at 1:34 PM | Permalink | 0 comment(s)
Or do other people's I.E.s sometimes just stop doing anything? It's the strangest thing and it didn't used to happen. No, detective, I cannot identify when it started but it's been going on a while now and it happens both at work where I'm on a great big huge network and at home where it's just me tapping into a cable system. Sometimes I click on a link and nothing happens. Nothing. No error message, no blue-screen-of-death, no misdirection, no weird things. Just plain nothing. I've tried stopping the "connecting" swirl (hasn't worked) and restarting the whole computer (hasn't worked) and turning everything off and back on (hasn't worked). Sometimes Firefox works when I.E. doesn't but it happens in Firefox, too, just less frequently. It isn't one or two sites, either, it's anything.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Sprucing up websites
posted at 6:41 PM | Permalink | 0 comment(s)
Sometimes sprucing up is good. One of my local yarn shops just rearranged everything in their brick and mortar store (this is their website) and it's much much easier to see what's in the store and to get around.

Sometimes sprucing up is not all that good. I do not particularly like the new look at cnn.com because it seems boring and less clear than it was previously. I started to write that it looks more corporate but even as I say so I'm not sure what I mean except that it looks less informational or news-filled and more annual report. Sometimes words fail one's ability to be accurately descriptive.

I find the LA Times front page easy to read, informative in a page-like way and pleasant to peruse - having said which, I hope some poltergeist is not karmically tempted to run out and "update" it.

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Saturday, September 19, 2009
FB
posted at 7:49 AM | Permalink | 0 comment(s)
What's the deal with Facebook being down or painfully sluggish so much recently?

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Sunday, August 9, 2009
Sitemeter
posted at 9:54 PM | Permalink | 3 comment(s)
Blogs that use Sitemeter are again (as last year and the year before that, at various times) bouncing viewers to http://dg.specificclick.net/%3Fu when one tries to read them. You can click back to the desired blog and each return allows your stay to be slightly longer but it doesn't stop entirely. I thought at first that it was the viewer that controlled the problem but since I don't use sitemeter clearly that's not the case. For what it's worth, like spam email unless you reply to them, this dg thing isn't harmful in a spy or viral sense. I sure wish websites and blogs, et al, were unassailable by nibbling hackers and other vermin.

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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Coffee + talking
posted at 11:22 PM | Permalink | 0 comment(s)
Not surprising that Starbucks has an interactive site, I suppose, but it is more interesting and fun that I expected. Here.

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