I’ve been an eBay user for well over 10 years now and have never ran into someone trying to rip me off until recently. Two times in the past 2 months, with the most recent being below and taking place last night.
After wrestling with trying to get Google Chrome to reinstall for me after a spontaneous MSE notification caused it to close out and be removed from my system, I happen to run across the following:
On September 30th, 2011, an incorrect detection for PWS:Win32/Zbot was identified and as a result, Google Chrome was inadvertently blocked and in some cases removed from customers’ PCs. We have already fixed the issue — we released an updated signature (1.113.672.0) at 9:57 a.m. PDT — but approximately 3,000 customers were impacted. Affected customers should manually update Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) with the latest signatures. To do this, simply launch MSE, go to the update tab and click the Update button, and then reinstall Google Chrome. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused our customers.Microsoft
Just Write is a minimal theme meant for you to do exactly what the title says, Just Write.
Some highlights:
The fact that it took until yesterday (because I was forced to) for me to use the new Yahoo! Mail speaks volumes about my desire to stay with the old one, but after changing, I love it! It just seems so much faster when loading messages. And the arrows to move to the next message (up or down) just makes my life so much easier, as I always found the previous/next text link to be confusing. They’ve gone a little overboard adding Facebook and Yahoo! Messenger in, at least for myself, but I’m sure others find it extremely useful. Bravo Yahoo!, for taking your email a step forward, and not a step backwards like I had first thought it would be!
The New Yahoo! Mail
Shane Holden – Please keep my mom in your prayers. She starts chemo & radiation today for colon cancer. Thank you.
I officially hate the ‘On This Day In’ feature of Facebook now. Not to mention all of the other tweaks that they keep making. Reminds me of how often eBay has changed their site over the years.
The need to prevent images from displaying in the post content came up with some feedback to my Instapic theme. The user was using the WordPress iPhone App, and while making a picture post, it automatically adds the image into the post content. Since the theme uses just the featured image feature of WordPress to display the image, having the image inserted in the post content made it appear twice in the theme. He didn’t mind the need to just delete the inserted image from the post content, but I can see where that could eventually get annoying, and I want the theme to ultimately work as flawlessly and easily as possible.
The function below prevents images from being displayed in the post content when it’s placed in the functions.php file of your theme, and the_content(); is changed to the_content_no_images();
Instapic is a fun theme styled after the popular Instagram, allowing you to mimic the features that Instagram offers (minus the photo filters), yet run the photo blog on your own. Instapic features Google Map support, as well as a ‘like’ counter to keep up with what your followers most enjoy.
Instapic is my first WordPress theme that I’ve created to release. It’s bound to need some fixes or have adjustments made, but as with all things, it’s got to start somewhere. I’m really pleased with the functionality, and how the overall theme has turned out.
I missed the actual 2 year date by a few days, but the count shouldn’t be too far off. Two years of listening to Last.fm while almost entirely at work has equated to scrobbling 45,179 songs total, or an average of 22,589 songs a year.
Here’s a look at the 8 artists that I’ve listened to the most over the past 2 years.
Google Chrome that is. I’m really not that big of a fan of Google, but their browser is pretty slick. It isn’t bloated with all of those unused buttons, and just seems so much snappier than the other alternatives. I’ve really liked Firefox, but for some reason it usually starts eating up my computer’s memory until I have to close it through Task Manager. I’ll probably still use each of the different browsers for different sites, as it’s a hard habit to break launching the same browser you have for years. Honestly though, I’d be a bigger fan of Google if they would cut their ties with working with the NSA and CIA. Perhaps I’m just cynical, but I just can’t see any good coming from someone as large as Google teaming up with an Administration that is determined to make our internet more like China, ex. an Internet Kill Switch. But until then, I’ll selectively use services they offer that I can benefit from that are better than the alternatives.
You have no idea how frustrating it is to come into work in the morning and see a bright blue login screen from a recent restart from updating Windows that I didn’t initiate. I’ve put off running Windows Updates because it is so frequent that you want me to do it, that it’s absolutely annoying. If I had wanted to install the updates that you decided that I absolutely needed, I would have done so myself. I don’t appreciate one bit you trying to keep my computer up-to-date and secure. You remind me alot of Washington, passing laws to help keep me safe when I’m not even afraid at all of terrorists, etc.
The reason for my aggravation? I leave items up in Adobe Photoshop as I’m working, notepads, wordpads, etc. of things that I’ve scratched down, either ideas or just temporary notes, that I now no longer have.
If I’d gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois. I’ve often wondered at how lives are shaped by what seem like small and inconsequential events, how an apparently random turn in the road can lead you a long way from where you intended to go—and a long way from wherever you expected to go. For me, the first of these turns occurred in the summer of 1932, in the abyss of the Depression.
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