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Re: Your first tweet – here’s a tip on how to find it.

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:57:08 -0000

Wow, I had this exact idea today. I want to find my first tweet for a blog post, but since you posted this Twitter has crippled the paging and limited it to the most recent 10 pages of tweets. Too bad. I'm sure this tip will work again... if (when) Twitter ever gets its act together.

Re: Ads in Twitter streams? What's next, ads on boxer's backs?

voyagerfan5761 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:50:05 -0000

Pownce has been running for a while with on-page ads and a premium service that removes them (and allows you to customize your profile fully). Twitter could go the same way, and I wouldn't have any complaints.

Re: Enough With The Social Networks!

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:01:03 -0000

w00t, another person who agrees with me that Google Reader's shared items thing was crap! (You don't mind my dropping that link, do you? I hope not...) I feel very strongly that the shared items from friends feature was implemented very incorrectly, and that Google left it in place after much resistance from the community.

Re: Perspective, FriendFried and the Scoble Effect

voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:00:45 -0000

I'm feeling lucky that I haven't gotten any Scoble stuff in my feed yet. What's the big deal with Robert, anyway? I hear about him but don't know why.

Re: Perspective, FriendFried and the Scoble Effect

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:09:45 -0000

@Jake: Thanks for answering. Testing an application's limits is probably a good thing, as it drives improvement (like you said). Now the only question that remains is: Where does he get all these contacts/friends/followers/whatever? :D

Re: Perspective, FriendFried and the Scoble Effect

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:13:17 -0000

@Jake: Doh! 17,000+ edits to Wikipedia, hours and hours invested, and I forgot about it. Haven't been spending enough time there lately due to other things that need to get done (*cough* stupid real life *cough*).

After reading his article, I'm a little closer to getting why he's famous (being an RSS advocate, not to mention a fan of the Tablet PC, would get him love from the geek crowd). This is almost like figuring out why people Angelina Jolie or [insert name of pop celebrity here]; you don't know who the person is unless you're active or interested in the field in which they are famous. For me, I have no idea who just about any popular musician or film actor is, which shows my incredible geekery. Or not, since I don't know who Scoble is. Hmm...

Re: Do You Know Robert?

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:13:28 -0000

Don't worry, I wasn't having a laugh. I've heard the name everywhere on the Web, but never really figured out who he is. Now I at least have an idea. :-)

Re: Perspective, FriendFried and the Scoble Effect

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:18:27 -0000

@Jake: Heh, found it on Technorati while I was snooping around at the sudden reputation++ today. The site I use to track comments is down, so I couldn't find your comment that way. 'Tis cool that I've been blogged about! Speaking of perspective, that post proves that I don't, after all, know everything about the Web (yet ;-) ).

Re: Do You Know Robert?

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:22:37 -0000

Hmph, wish more blogging platforms had editable comments. (Though my own doesn't, so who am I to talk?) Anyway, I think I should talk a little more about this subject.

I have a sort of bubble, too, just like Jake. In my bubble, people like Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia), Kevin Fox (former <acronym title="User Interface">UI</acronym> designer at Google), and Paul Buchheit (the original developer of Gmail) are small-time celebrities, and a lot of people I talk to don't know who they are at all. It's only natural, I guess, that someday, someone would talk about someone I've never really understood all the hype about. Scoble has been that person for me, and Jake was the one who mentioned him.

On the plus side of this, I now know something about who Robert Scoble is.

Re: Do You Know Robert?

voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:58:54 -0000

@Jake: lol! Google! :D

Re: Do You Know Robert?

voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:34:53 -0000

@Jake: Does that mean I'm a geek? I keep signing up for new services, too. Hmm...

Re: Does Spam Still Work?

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:49:22 -0000

Well well well...

Just in response to your last point about webmail not catching spam, Gmail does a great job and has let through about two spam messages over the entire duration of my use, which is about two years. So it's not a "free service" problem, it's a "lazy free service" problem. Read: Microsoft Hotmail.

Re: Does Spam Still Work?

voyagerfan5761 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:45:35 -0000

@Jake: Yahoo! Mail is pretty bad (I get spam there even though I have never even told anyone I have an account there). Hotmail is really annoying because Microsoft spams you with their own junk and makes it a requirement for service. (I don't use my Yahoo! or Hotmail addresses anyway; They're just there for identity preservation.)

@ChrisRowell: I can't speak for my dad, but my mom is pretty suspicious of anything she gets that doesn't have a name she knows attached to it. She even catches stuff that purports to be from herself. Phishing and spam are both lost on the two of us. My dad has a spam filter in Outlook, but I don't know if he ever reads the messages or if any make it to his Inbox. (The rest of us use webmail services; he's the holdout for desktop applications.)

Re: Programming Tips #1

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:40:24 -0000

@possible248: Not commented on. TrackBacked, from the looks of it. ;)

Re: ModCMS PHP Error Module

voyagerfan5761 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:31:08 -0000

I don't think GET parameters are a particularly good idea for production sites... At least not as a means for triggering detailed error reports that could reveal internal operational data to end-users. A debug constant set in a universal include file (settings or whatever) is probably better.

Re: Coding MMORPG

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:43:31 -0000

Sounds like a video game version of the idea i80and had (which I expanded upon). I like it!

Re: Remember my last post? Funny story is…

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:33:33 -0000

Be thankful to Google Reader and WordPress' default "First Post", possible248. That's how I found out about the problem. Glad you could fix it easily!

Re: onMouseOut event handler activated on child elements

voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:49:07 -0000

There's another discussion of the problem at http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.ph...

QuirksMode.org also has a bunch of info; a good starting point is http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_mouse.html#...

Re: Easy AJAX Part 1: Fake it

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:45:54 -0000

Third example has text cut off at the bottom. FF 2.0.0.12, WinXP, 1024x768. :D

Re: The “BCC count”

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:42:57 -0000

I'm still getting mailings that have everyone listed in the TO line. Honestly, some people have no idea that either of the other two fields even exist.

Netiquette seems to be a lost art; what happened to using BCC for lists?

Re: Easy AJAX Part 1: Fake it

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:45:34 -0000

@possible248: It does, but the last line of text (and the bottom end of the scrollbar with the down arrow button) is cut off anyway.

Re: Blogging Is Difficult. Here Are Seven Tips to Help

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:25:51 -0000

Hmm, I violate Section 6.1 all the time, as do Gawker Media's blogs (Lifehacker being my main exposure to that). Am I a bad blogger? :-P

Re: Blogging Is Difficult. Here Are Seven Tips to Help

voyagerfan5761 — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:03:14 -0000

In all honesty, I don't do it more than once every week or two. Probably less in the future, as my posting frequency declines to make room for other (real-life) stuff. I hear you on the IE6 thing.

On a positive note, my mom now uses Firefox 2 and says, "I like Firefox now." Warms my heart. :D

Re: FriendFeed is the new RSS reader

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:21:58 -0000

You didn't mention twhirl, a Twitter client that also supports FriendFeed (like Alert Thingy is a FriendFeed client that supports Twitter).

Re: Updates to “Stopping Internet Plagiarism” Series

voyagerfan5761 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:23:28 -0000

Sounds good! I'll know where to come next time I discover a problem. Hope I won't have to, of course, but it will probably happen anyway.

Re: 5 Steps: How Not to Look Like a Spam Blog

voyagerfan5761 — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:19:48 -0000

Hmm, that first tip of yours would flag me as spam automatically. That might be why my visitor count in the last month has only been around 1,500. I have been thinking about grabbing my own domain at some point, though. (I hope to set one up by the end of the year, actually. I won't mention the options I'm considering in case someone else would try to register them before I do and then sell one to me for an inordinately high price.)

Re: 5 Steps: How Not to Look Like a Spam Blog

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:23:34 -0000

@Jonathan (comment 2): Now that I think about it, perhaps the fact that I've stayed hosted on Blog*Spot has contributed to my high (80-90%) bounce rate. People click the result, see it's Blog*Spot, and hit Back, like Steve says he does in comment 3. There is, of course, the question of: "How will changing my domain after a year and a half affect my search engine presence?" But if it leads to lower bounce rates and more readers, I'd gladly undergo the Google Transition Period. Sorry if this is bordering (or just flat-out) off-topic, but any thoughts? I'm pretty sure Blogger sets up correct 301 redirects to properly transfer PageRank and all that.

Re: 5 Steps: How Not to Look Like a Spam Blog

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:18:24 -0000

Just as a response to @Recording Studio: Not only do I have lots of visits through Google, but countless links from Google Groups postings that I put in my signature. That redirection is definitely the way to go; I'm glad Blogger supports it. But I am nervous that when I move I'll lose a lot of traffic. I don't have ads or anything to generate revenue on the site, but I don't think I could stand writing to a vacuum again like it was when I started blogging.

But enough of my whining. ;-) Good luck launching your site!

And this will probably be lost to the wind, but is there any chance of you launching OpenID support, Jonathan? Personally, I think it should be built into WordPress by default. (Is it? I'm not super familiar with the application.)

Re: 5 Steps: How Not to Look Like a Spam Blog

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:01:57 -0000

@Cybele: Sounds good. I'm planning to just use Blogger's custom domain feature, and I already have FeedBurner for my site feed, so it sounds like I'm set. Thanks for sharing your experience! There's also WordPress, but I'm looking to use that much later, if ever. I hear the import capabilities are good, though; it even grabs your comments?

Re: Video: How to Use Google Alerts

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:36:22 -0000

Very interesting video! Looking forward to the one on dynamic content so I can get on protecting that RSS feed of mine...

Re: Typo Domain Bought

voyagerfan5761 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:59:59 -0000

Yes! Fight the typo-squatters!

Also, I recently nuked my Twitter widget in favor of the FriendFeed widget I already had in my sidebar. The two were kind of redundant. Why'd you give yours the heave-ho?

Re: The Spread of Spam

voyagerfan5761 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:52:10 -0000

Good news: The site my blog is currently hosted on is becoming slightly less spammy.

Bad news: Spam overall seems to be becoming more and more of a problem.

I'll take the good news, thank you. :-/

Re: The Spread of Spam

voyagerfan5761 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:09:57 -0000

Spreading butter around is usually a good thing because it gives a more uniform taste to your toast. Spreading spam around just makes the world a more annoying place to Internet. I am happy to be considered one of those "few blogs that are hosted on Blogspot" you consider legitimate. (Does 1,400 visits a month count as popular? I'm not so sure... But I appreciate the compliment. :-) )

If Google were to spend more time actively looking for splogs, or make it easier to flag a blog as spam (the navbar, with its button, is altogether too easy to hide), or even tighten the ToS so splogs are less legitimate under the rules of the hosting site... The world would probably be a better place for it.

All the more reason to get myself a real domain name, I guess. If I do that, I can start putting other services on it as well; custom domains seem to be the latest trend in free amenities.

Google Groups does seem to have a large amount of spam going on, too. It's gotten to the point of being ridiculous.

PS:
Yes, I know it's been days since the last comment, but the comment tracker I use has apparently been slacking on its checks lately... Grr...

Re: The Need for DMCA Transparency

voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:31:03 -0000

I'm still laughing at "Linen Labs". ;-) Just thought I'd point it out.

Re: GumGum: Simple Image Licensing

voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:50:54 -0000

The embed appears to be already broken. The image never loads. I am definitely staying away from GumGum if this is indicative of its performance.

Re: GumGum: Simple Image Licensing

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:09:26 -0000

I'm here on the site, with ABP disabled. I see an ad at the bottom of the embed, but no image has shown up after a minute and a half. Firefox says it is "Transferring data from ad.doubleclick.net..." but there's no network activity. Hold on, let me try it in Internet Explorer...

It shows up in IE6. The only things I can think of that would make that happen are JavaScript inconsistencies and referrer differences. Or it could be an extension I have, messing with the way the page is loaded.

Re: GumGum: Simple Image Licensing

voyagerfan5761 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:02:12 -0000

Meh, I already saw it in IE, and I don't plan to use the service either. If it doesn't work, other people will not use it, and they'll have to either fix the problem or fail as a business. Fine by me.

Re: Proposal: Feed Republishing List

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:36:04 -0000

As they say, "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, however..." (Or whatever the words are.) Joan makes a good point. I too think this would be a good idea, kind of like the spam domain lists we have now for email. User participation might be harder to get, though.

Re: Takedown FAQ

voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:43:47 -0000

I believe I have had personal experience with a host that surgically removed my content. ThePlanet.com, it was. My stolen content was stored in a WordPress database, and from all appearances they just deleted the matching records from the database.

While I thankfully haven't found any more huge infringers since then, I think I just might bookmark this page for future reference. (I'm probably missing several plagiarists, though; for each one you find, there are five hiding in the baseboard, right? Like mice?)

Re: 2008/04/17/alertthingy-twhirl-comparison/

voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:11 -0000

I think Alert Thingy is taking cues from the FriendFeed website. On FriendFeed.com, comments are expanded once they're expanded, and there's no going back without reloading the page.

Re: Simplified Guide to Importing All Your Archive Email Into Gmail

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:42:50 -0000

Good work, Mr. Erdos! You beat me to coming up with this trick on my own blog!

Re: Simplified Guide to Importing All Your Archive Email Into Gmail

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:42:50 -0000

Good work, Mr. Erdos! You beat me to coming up with this trick on my own blog!

Re: Simplified Guide to Importing All Your Archive Email Into Gmail

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:59:21 -0000

@Ben Kepes: Multiple signatures would be very nice. Heck, HTML signatures (without resorting to Greasemonkey hacks) would be nice...

Re: Simplified Guide to Importing All Your Archive Email Into Gmail

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:59:21 -0000

@Ben Kepes: Multiple signatures would be very nice. Heck, HTML signatures (without resorting to Greasemonkey hacks) would be nice...

Re: Microsoft: The Live Installer / WDS Invasion was Just the Rehearsal

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:28:34 -0000

Now Microsoft is into the "download one program, get five" idea, too, huh? Oy, what are software makers coming to?

Re: Microsoft: The Live Installer / WDS Invasion was Just the Rehearsal

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:28:34 -0000

Now Microsoft is into the "download one program, get five" idea, too, huh? Oy, what are software makers coming to?

Re: Simplified Guide to Importing All Your Archive Email Into Gmail

voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:55:35 -0000

Great tips Karl! Importing one folder at a time is probably the way to go. Now as soon as Google gives me my IMAP, I'll start importing. Probably one folder a day.

Re: Simplified Guide to Importing All Your Archive Email Into Gmail

voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:55:35 -0000

Great tips Karl! Importing one folder at a time is probably the way to go. Now as soon as Google gives me my IMAP, I'll start importing. Probably one folder a day.

Re: Blog Tracking Services Compromise Online Bank Security?

voyagerfan5761 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:00:26 -0000

No service I know of could steal data from a banking site, but I'm no more security expert than you, so...

Re: Blog Tracking Services Compromise Online Bank Security?

voyagerfan5761 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:00:26 -0000

No service I know of could steal data from a banking site, but I'm no more security expert than you, so...

Re: Now You Can Really Zoho Offline

voyagerfan5761 — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:08:24 -0000

Interestingly, Remember The Milk syncs all your data constantly in the local database, and already auto-detects status. Why Google and Zoho haven't done this, I have no idea.

Re: Now You Can Really Zoho Offline

voyagerfan5761 — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:08:24 -0000

Interestingly, Remember The Milk syncs all your data constantly in the local database, and already auto-detects status. Why Google and Zoho haven't done this, I have no idea.

Re: Don’t Try This At Home

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:52:04 -0000

Er... Who in their right mind would do that? Accident waiting to happen...

Re: Don’t Try This At Home

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:52:04 -0000

Er... Who in their right mind would do that? Accident waiting to happen...

Re: Gmail Search is Slowing and Google Knows…

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:37:53 -0000

That message shows up whenever Gmail's having network trouble or some other problem that causes the service to slow down; it's not limited to delays in the search.

Re: Gmail Search is Slowing and Google Knows…

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:37:53 -0000

That message shows up whenever Gmail's having network trouble or some other problem that causes the service to slow down; it's not limited to delays in the search.

Re: Don’t Try This At Home

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:47:47 -0000

@Zoli: Worrying about beer when there's electricity around? :D Kidding!

@Adrian: Indeed. Though it's hard to determine what's stupider: This, or putting an RV on cruise control and going back to take a nap... Or strapping a high-power rocket motor to the back of your car... :P

Re: Don’t Try This At Home

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:47:47 -0000

Re: Don’t Try This At Home

voyagerfan5761 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:41:19 -0000

Er, I don't think that's the one I was talking about. I hadn't discovered your blog back then. :D

Something my dad said about a guy who put a huge rocket engine on his car (I think solid fuel) and ended up flying, doing some sort of aerial business, and smashing into a rock. Car destroyed (fragmented), nothing left of anything, human or otherwise. Say, "Darwin". Idiot. Who would be stupid enough to do that, anyway?

Re: Don’t Try This At Home

voyagerfan5761 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:41:19 -0000

Re: Weird Google Blogger Error

voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:47:34 -0000

Wonderful, now Google's trying to silence my complaints about their services' shortcomings by popping up cryptic errors when people try to read them. :P

Re: Weird Google Blogger Error

voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:47:34 -0000

Wonderful, now Google's trying to silence my complaints about their services' shortcomings by popping up cryptic errors when people try to read them. :P

Re: Gmail Contact Manager Does Not Support URLs?

voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:52:01 -0000

Call it vanity, but could you put the '1' into my name above? Thanks. :) (You're welcome to delete this comment once it's been acted on.)

Re: Gmail Contact Manager Does Not Support URLs?

voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:52:01 -0000

Call it vanity, but could you put the '1' into my name above? Thanks. :) (You're welcome to delete this comment once it's been acted on.)

Re: Weird Google Blogger Error

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:34:15 -0000

For some reason, your comment wasn't here when I posted earlier, David. It most certainly shouldn't be an ad refresh; I don't have ads on there.

Re: Weird Google Blogger Error

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:34:15 -0000

For some reason, your comment wasn't here when I posted earlier, David. It most certainly shouldn't be an ad refresh; I don't have ads on there.

Re: Your Digital Friends: Less is More

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:24:35 -0000

Facebook is inserting ads in the news feed now, which really annoys me. Advertising platform indeed; too much so, if you ask me. Thank goodness for AdBlock Plus in Firefox. :D

That ClustrMap is interesting. It mirrors rather closely my map on http://whos.amung.us/show/lbtulrxh (sorry, but you'll have to click a tab - I couldn't get a direct link to the maps tab), which has lots of visitors in Europe and the Eastern U.S., but it drops off (not quite as dramatically) in the Western U.S. Is it a tech blog thing?

Re: Your Digital Friends: Less is More

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:24:35 -0000

Re: Your Digital Friends: Less is More

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:10:54 -0000

Could it be something to do with Easterners being more savvy (cosmopolitan?) than citizens in the West? (Sorry, I don't know about the UK.) Maybe there are more tech-savvy people on the East Coast. There's a hole in the middle of my map, but California, Oregon, and Washington also send a fair number of visitors.

Re: Your Digital Friends: Less is More

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:10:54 -0000

Re: JotSpot Born Again as Google Sites, the Wiki-less Wiki.

voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:32:40 -0000

Some of those missing features are available in MediaWiki, which I would personally rather use. Google Sites is an interesting concept, but for the more geeky or control-freak types like myself, it just doesn't cut it (from what I've read; I can't actually test it, unfortunately).

Re: JotSpot Born Again as Google Sites, the Wiki-less Wiki.

voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:32:40 -0000

Re: Weird Google Blogger Error

voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:57:51 -0000

Having a similar problem with another site today. Try visiting http://tipsforbloggers.blogspot.com/2007/10/tip... and see if you get a "Google Error" page.

Re: Weird Google Blogger Error

voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:57:51 -0000

Having a similar problem with another site today. Try visiting http://tipsforbloggers.blogspot.com/2007/10/tip... and see if you get a "Google Error" page.

Re: The Microsoft Vista Fiasco: Who is Evil Now?

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:15:54 -0000

I know I'm not alone in hating Vista. In fact, the only places I've seen the "newer, better" OS is on consumer laptops whose buyers weren't given a choice between Vista and XP or didn't know enough to make the right choice when presented with it. All the schools whose computers I've seen are still on XP, or even Windows 2000.

Re: The Microsoft Vista Fiasco: Who is Evil Now?

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:15:54 -0000

Re: Failed SP1 Update: Vista Still Sucks

voyagerfan5761 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:43:25 -0000

Feeling more glad I stuck with XP. Hope I can still when I return my current PC to school and get my own... Vista pre-loaded everywhere, so help me. :-(

Re: Failed SP1 Update: Vista Still Sucks

voyagerfan5761 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:43:25 -0000

Feeling more glad I stuck with XP. Hope I can still when I return my current PC to school and get my own... Vista pre-loaded everywhere, so help me. :-(

Re: Failed SP1 Update: Vista Still Sucks

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:57:53 -0000

@Computer Support: Did you read the post, or just skim it and read the title? Zoli did uninstall the Service Pack, unwillingly. It failed to install.

Your name, BTW, looks very spammy to me.

Re: Failed SP1 Update: Vista Still Sucks

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:57:53 -0000

@Computer Support: Did you read the post, or just skim it and read the title? Zoli did uninstall the Service Pack, unwillingly. It failed to install.

Your name, BTW, looks very spammy to me.

Re: You Know You Blog Too Much When…

voyagerfan5761 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:27:46 -0000

Been through this. I'll be talking about something and I'll think (sometimes even say), "Just go read my blog post about it!" Bugs the heck out of me, because I hate repeating myself.

Re: You Know You Blog Too Much When…

voyagerfan5761 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:27:46 -0000

Been through this. I'll be talking about something and I'll think (sometimes even say), "Just go read my blog post about it!" Bugs the heck out of me, because I hate repeating myself.

Re: Why Can’t Wordpress 2.5.2 Display Bulletpoints?

voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:23:22 -0000

They showed up while the page was loading, but disappeared once it had finished. Weird!

Re: Why Can’t Wordpress 2.5.2 Display Bulletpoints?

voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:23:22 -0000

They showed up while the page was loading, but disappeared once it had finished. Weird!

Re: Microsoft Legal Wants Me to Take Down THEIR OWN CONTENT

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:13:00 -0000

So if the promotion is over, why does the site now show a $60 promotion for Office Ultimate 2007? With no end date in sight? MicroFAIL?

Re: Microsoft Legal Wants Me to Take Down THEIR OWN CONTENT

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:13:00 -0000

So if the promotion is over, why does the site now show a $60 promotion for Office Ultimate 2007? With no end date in sight? MicroFAIL?

Re: Microsoft Legal Wants Me to Take Down THEIR OWN CONTENT

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:18:14 -0000

The Microsoft website also still has the promotion. Definitely MicroFAIL.

Re: Microsoft Legal Wants Me to Take Down THEIR OWN CONTENT

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:18:14 -0000

The Microsoft website also still has the promotion. Definitely MicroFAIL.

Re: Microsoft Legal Wants Me to Take Down THEIR OWN CONTENT

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:20:43 -0000

The version of theultimatebug.com that I see doesn't mention that the promotion is over, or that it has an ending date.

Sorry for not answering in my last comment; you posted it while I was writing.

Re: Microsoft Legal Wants Me to Take Down THEIR OWN CONTENT

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:20:43 -0000

The version of theultimatebug.com that I see doesn't mention that the promotion is over, or that it has an ending date.

Sorry for not answering in my last comment; you posted it while I was writing.

Re: Microsoft Legal Wants Me to Take Down THEIR OWN CONTENT

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:45:31 -0000

I don't remember exactly, but I don't think so. Now I see an Under Construction page on theultimatebug.com and an end-of-life page on theultimatesteal.com

Re: Microsoft Legal Wants Me to Take Down THEIR OWN CONTENT

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:45:31 -0000

I don't remember exactly, but I don't think so. Now I see an Under Construction page on theultimatebug.com and an end-of-life page on theultimatesteal.com

Re: LinkednIn Down in Celebration of their Billion-Dollar Club Membership

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:19:22 -0000

Can't help but laugh at your last line there... :D

Re: LinkednIn Down in Celebration of their Billion-Dollar Club Membership

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:19:22 -0000

Can't help but laugh at your last line there... :D

Re: FAA Failure - Golden Vista Ad

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:12:06 -0000

It would be so funny if it turned out that the computer that failed was indeed running Vista... :D

Re: FAA Failure – Golden Vista Ad

voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:12:06 -0000

It would be so funny if it turned out that the computer that failed was indeed running Vista... :D

Re: Google Releases Zoho Mail with Offline Support

voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:25:03 -0000

I just figured out I had access to Zoho Mail a few weeks ago, and I've configured it to auto-forward to my Gmail account. As you say, there aren't enough features in it to make me switch from Gmail.

Re: Google Releases Zoho Mail with Offline Support

voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:25:03 -0000

I just figured out I had access to Zoho Mail a few weeks ago, and I've configured it to auto-forward to my Gmail account. As you say, there aren't enough features in it to make me switch from Gmail.

Re: Happy Birthday Laura!

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:08:10 -0000

Happy birthday Laura!

I'm glad you share the name of a canoe trip leader I had in summer 2007. Both of you are awesome people. I am, of course, taking Justin's description of you, but there's no way you could not fit what he says. :)

Re: Has Microsoft caught up to Google in search?

voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:57:42 -0000

I actually used to use Live Search, back when it was still MSN Search. (What a stupid re-branding they did with that "Live" crap.) I also used to use IE6. I shunned Google and Firefox.

One day I realized I was using Firefox and searching with Google. I haven't gone back since.

That was two years ago. When I started using Firefox full-time, the version number started with 1.5.

In the months and years following that, I have since switched completely from Outlook email to Gmail. I have been constantly adding more Google services to my account as they are released, and I absolutely loathe Hotmail as it is now. (What's up with the required advertisements? Notice how Google doesn't do any of that? No ads in your inbox, no taglines, nothing.)

Since the switch, I haven't really tried Microsoft's search sites. I know my dad uses them (because he uses IE7 and it's built in and he doesn't know either that it's possible to change it or how to do so). But I refuse to.

Re: The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:36:25 -0000

I especially agree about the thing against posting comments on blogs as a website or company, or posting barely-relevant comments just so you can link to your own sites. I've even seen users do both of these; it's so annoying!

Re: The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:51:17 -0000

I agree with Allen. Often, users will be blocked or deleted with no indication as to what exactly they did wrong. I myself got an email from Orkut stating that my account had been deactivated because "it violated our Terms of Use and/or image upload guidelines." However, there was no pointer to what exactly I'd done wrong, and I couldn't possibly imagine what it could be as I hadn't touched that profile in months. (Never mind the fact that it wasn't actually deactivated - the next time I logged in, it was intact - that's a totally different topic.)