TECHNOLOGY: Technorati doesn’t work (for me)!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/yzgp9r

http://www.technorati.com/blogs/
http%3A%2F%2Freinkefj.wordpress.com

Technorati

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Info for https://reinkefj.wordpress.com
Reinke Faces Life
* Rank: 405,906 (19 links from 7 blogs) What do these numbers mean?
* URL: https://reinkefj.wordpress.com
* Updated: 165 days ago
* Favorited by: 0 members Add to your Favorites

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You show an age of 165. I have new content everyday. HELP! I ping. WordPress pings. To no avail.


TECHNOLOGY: Serious Magic consumed by Adobe. Too bad!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/y6xbmo

http://drjoewebb.blogspot.com/2006/10/
theres-some-serious-magic-at-adobe.html#comments

Jasper Joe Webb’s blog reported

>This article reports their purchase
>of Serious Magic. I have used their
>Visual Communicator product

Dear fellow Jasper, I’ve used the Serious Magic product. I’m sorry to see ANY useful product picked up by “the big boyze”. It always leads to the death of innovation. Here’s my uses if you want a laff.

http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/PaperKnot.wmv
http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/We_Have_Technology.wmv


XPfails – luggable – PRINTERALL fails to pull data

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Interesting … the PRINTERALL client doesn’t have ANY data in it. None at all. Hmmm, who to point the finger at?


TECHNOLOGY: ThinkFree to WordPress test

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Just playing with a “new” feature in ThinkFree. Did it work?

.thinkfree_footer {font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;color:#999;}

Click POWER VIEW

Powered by ThinkFree, the best online office Some rights reserved.


XPfails – luggable – OUTLOOK snarfs 4 messages today

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

OUTLOOK snarfed four messages today. No rhyme or reason. Copying the message to a new one and send worked fine. Just annoying.


XPfails – luggable – RSSBANDIT fails

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

RSSBANDIT failed in initiation. Stopping and starting didn’t help. Reviewing the task manger I couldn’t find anything to nuke. A reboot was required. The reboot process exposed a hidden window that was recorded as RSSBANDIT’s. I don’t know how one could find and nuke it without the restart. That seems like a design failure.


XPfails – luggable – wsod

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

The white screen of death hit at 1215. Argh!


TECH: New version of copernic; locks up my platform

Monday, October 23, 2006

http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/index.html

http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/wpn-58-20061019CopernicDesktopSearchIsAMustHave.html

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I did try the new version. But the darn thing locked up the whole setup during install. So, I’ll wait to hear how others do.


TECHNOLOGY: Search, even Google Search, has huge limits

Sunday, October 22, 2006

I have canned searches to find my fellow alums. I am finding that more and more of the inet are not indexed at all. There is a TREMENDOUS amount of the inet that isn’t spydered at all. In my nievete, I used to think that Google and the other engines were pretty good. Now, I think they are mediocre at best. Arghh!


TECH: LookOut, aka Outlook, snarfs two of my outbound messages

Saturday, October 21, 2006

I’m defining a new word to describe this problem / opportunity. SNARF for the word SNAG and F for you know what.

A message gets SNARFed, when for no apparent reason,

LookOut, (OutLook’s evil Sybil side), takes:

a perfectly good outbound message that was sitting read to go, as denoted by that BOLD ITALIC font that it has in the outbox with a date of today

AND

changes the date to NONE, removes the BOLD ITALIC font, and it just sits there.

No amount of cajoling will get it out of that state!

One can see other messages whizzing out bypass the “stalled cars”.

Stopping Outlook doesn’t help, though it gripes about unsent messages, so it knows that they are there.

The only solution is to create a brand new message, send that, and nuke the old ones.

Argh! I hate OutLook.

And, yes, the data stores are big, but that would only bear if all messaging stoped.

Argh!!