The telespamming bozos at (515) 473-60XX called again, claiming to be checking on a price quote from last year. Unfortunately I didn't recognize the number right off and 1) picked up and 2) answered and 3) didn't lead them on a merry chase to send someone either to 301 E. Margaret St. or here where I or Jay could tell them off in person.

However ( Read more... )

When I switched to PCLinuxOS I also went to the latest version of Opera. That was fine, but evidently my custom user.css file was clobbered despite my backup. One nuisance was that the despicable LJ navbar would show up again at times. Then I found that Opera was rendering the contemptible tag and it wasn't just a stupid CSS trick. And then ( Read more... )

Yahoo says:

Recently, messages sent to you from Yahoo! Groups have been returned to us as undeliverable. As a result, we have temporarily turned off message delivery to this email address.

If you are reading this message, the delivery problem appears to be fixed. To start receiving your groups messages by email again and turn your account back on ( Read more... )

I'm seeing more and more "This video requires Flash 8 or newer. Go to [URL] to get it!" And I go to that URL and what do I get? Well, since I'm running Linux, I get offered the latest Flash player that runs on Linux: Flash 7.whatever. Great going guys.

I wouldn't mind answering calls from pollsters all that much if they were genuine polls. I've now gotten two calls that pretended to be polls but were really what is known as "push polls."

The Push Poll starts out like a poll is expected to start. There is the matter of anyone in the household working for any campaign or if one is a journalist ( Read more... )

This pretty much sums things up. As foolscap001 said here and jmaynard said here the inclusion of the bit that says if you don't post it you are a bigot by implication is objectionable. The intention might be the good, but the execution is of the annoying "repost this or else" type that is quite off-putting. It's even worse than the annoying "Name five people to ( Read more... )

Too many pirates
not enough rope.

[UPDATE, thanks to rillaspins]

So many Pirates
So little Rope!

LiveJournal has now added the ability to embedded video into posts. Fortunately the one thing they got right was having it never play automatically. Unfortunately they also included some AcvtiveX code on seemingly every page (users and friends list). This wouldn't be so bad if IE wasn't blisteringly st00p1d about things when the annoyance and ( Read more... )

If you've had the misfortune of encountering a certain obnoxiously loud and repetitive television commercial, you know the rest of that line. If not, consider yourself fortunate. The product, whose purpose the commercial never actually mentions, is supposedly a headache medication. Considering how they advertise, I can only hope the makers don' ( Read more... )

I am used to using client-side overrides to defeat bad web design since there is so much amazingly rotten web design. In another oddly placed post it is mentioned how to use a user style sheet to completely rid oneself of the irritating navigation bar. I've tried this and it works well. It's annoying that I'll need to copy this bit onto each ( Read more... )