I found a workaround to the spell check issue with the fancy, new text entry boxes. (Chrome and Firefox won't spell check the text.) If I click on "source", the browsers suddenly remember how to do the squiggly red underline thing.

parrino

Microsoft is releasing Windows Media Player plug in for FireFox which will play H.264 video. Works on Windows 7. For modern browsers, this leaves only FireFox on Mac and Opera without H.264 support and neither of those browsers have a ton of users.

I just realized the search term (in quotes) "haploid zombie" doesn't return very many hits. Good name for a punk band.

Halloween costumes

moto burnishes image

pepsi that doesn't suck

history of the internet (matt mullican much?)

For my "Pointy Stick Award For Practicing Ludditry With a Computer", I tried to be clever and do a superposition of images in html. This works in firefox but renders badly in internet exploder.









Oh wait. Now it sort of works. Sort of. I'm too tired to futz with it. If I'm lucky, I might get a link from the mighty PZ Myers, and I don't want a badly broken post that mocks a luddite. I got the idea from here. Here's another version ...

YouTube inks deal with Warner

Microsoft enters online video fray
SOAPBOX SERVICE HAS CATCHING UP TO DO WITH SITES LIKE YOUTUBE

Sacre bleu, MS is supporting Apple's OS, Firefox and Adobe Flash.

AOL to offer video on Intel's Viiv PCs

Intel and AOL announced an alliance Monday in which AOL will make thousands of hours of video programming available on Intel's Viiv-branded home computers.

The AOL Video For Intel Viiv service will allow consumers to download movies, TV shows and other programs to their computers and watch them on the computer or TV set. The videos include recent DVD movie releases, 45 channels of on-demand video programs, and AOL's video search index that helps consumers find videos.

Much of the content will be free. Other features include 250 radio stations and AOL's online digital pictures service.

RealNetworks, SanDisk to take on iPod

New music pair-ups: SanDisk and RealNetworks; YouTube and Warner Music

Just loaded Flashblock, a Firefox add-on. Two thumbs up.

just clicking through the firefox extension and i found this multiplayer online pong. ive got winners.

I've been trying, when appropriate, to get people to move away from Internet Explorer (just doing my part for homeland security.) So I guess I should stick with the follow through. To wit: there is a bug in Mozilla (and thus in Firefox) when run on Windows 2000 or Windows XP that can allow for remote execution of code. This bug has already been patched, so all you need to do is update your software to the latest version. For Firefox that would be 0.92. Here's the mozilla page with complete details on the vulnerability and what you need to do.

I'm trying to be good, I really am. I installed the Mozilla Firefox browser today because I keep reading that using IE is going to destroy my computer. Two problems right out of the gate:

My Norton Internet Security prompts me that "firefox.exe is attempting to access the internet" every new page I go to. I have to write a rule allowing that for each page. Some pages cause 6-7 prompts, so forget that. If I turn off the firewall, I'm vulnerable to outsiders trying to access the computer even if firefox is blocking malicious pop-ups. So I'm back to IE.

Another thing I noticed is Firefox reads Tree pages in the "one column" format inconstistently. E.G., when I first go to Jim's page it fills the entire screen left to right, but if I hit "older posts," it returns to the correct width (the width of the clouds picture). As I page back through my and Sally's pages, the width changes from correct to screen-filling to correct, almost at random. I can't figure out anything from my own html that would make one /pageback page different from another. The same thing happens when I view groups of posts by date from the archive--there, almost all the pages are screen-filling; in Sally's archive it's a mix. Again, back to IE.

Also, now I have this "Java Console" thingy on my status bar that wasn't there before. What the hell is that? (Oh, it goes off when you turn off Firefox. Never mind.)

So this Firefox browser works great and since Microsoft Word seemed like maybe its been removed from this machine I downloaded a free word processor called Abidword and it works pretty well and earlier I got the notion to spend twenty bucks to get a year of dictionary.coms deluxe version because I find the out loud pronounciation key a nice feature. I have a dictionary software that does it but it's all the way down at my house, which is still occupied for awhile longer by my hippie replacement, and anyway a web based out loud pronounciation key is something a person who believes in good clean fun should have. This little Vaio laptop keyboard is ok, easier to type than I would have thought, in case you're wondering when I'm going to wrap up, I'm just practicing so....