Tag: Web

If you have Firefox Focus installed and enabled on iOS then Google reCAPTCHA challenges are filtered out. Depending on the site configuration you’ll likely see an error after submitting a form and wonder what is going on, because you never saw the challenge.

The only solution I know of right now is to change the default settings in Firefox Focus.

Start Firefox Focus and go to the settings, by tapping on the gear icon in the top right.

I have just canceled my Pro subscription. It was scheduled to renew in two days from now. I also deleted almost all of my thousands of photos from the service, most of which were set to friends and/or family.

Since a day or so I am unable to play back any video from YouTube. This is definitely not isolated to a particular machine or browser: all machines on my home network have the same problem, regardless of the browser.

Now, I know I don't have the fastest of connections as I am using EVDO from Telus with an estimated 1Mbps — I am optimistic here. I am not fond of Telus but it's all I have, but I'm not sure whether there is a problem with YouTube or the EVDO connection.

Every time I try to login to my FriendFeed account from my Treo 755p phone with the Blazer 4.5 browser (Palm OS 5.4.9), I get this error: “Communication error: The page download could not be completed. Please try again later.”

OK, clear as mud.

That only happens with FriendFeed. I haven't been able to find a cause yet. I have emptied the cache, etc, but it doesn't help. It could be SSL related.

Roz Savage arrived in Betio on South Tarawa after a 104 day, 3,150 mile solo rowing adventure from Hawaii to raise awareness of environmental issues. This is her second leg of a journey that will take her to Australia.

She originally intended to arrive in Tuvalu but the currents proved to be too strong.

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Having an IP address that happens to be blacklisted with CBL or Spamhaus can cause a serious headache. Here is a little story about what can happen when your IP address happens to be blacklisted. And how you can easily become collateral damage in something so out of your control.

Roz Savage departed Hawaii, starting the second leg of her journey, to Tuvalu. Last year, she departed San Fransisco and arrived in Hawaii in September.

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After having completed the first leg from San Francisco to Hawaii last September, Roz Savage will soon embark on the second leg of her journey. In about three weeks she will depart from Hawaii and head for Tuvalu.

In line with findings by Sophos in April 2008 PC Magazine reported that of 430 million email messages monitored by Panda's TrustLayer Mail service during 2008, 90 percent was spam or malware. Most spam was sent by zombie computers taken over by worms sent remotely.

New favicon:

...and the old one:

Google changed its favicon, from a boring lower case g to a more sophisticated and artistic one.

Does anyone care...?

There already was Down for everyone or just me (see July 29, 2008), that lets you plug in a single URL. Now you can use Are my sites up from Chris Coyier that allows you to monitor up to 50 sites and will send you an email alert if one of the sites is down.

The checks are performed every 15 minutes.

The email it sends you when your site is down makes you feel a little better. :-)

And the notification when it is back up, even better:

We ordered a Rheem propane water heater, 40 gallon, 36,000 BTU, nothing fancy. At the Home Depot we paid $975. Later, I checked the Home Depot web site: the exact same water heater was listed there for $575.

The store's duty manager made up all kinds of excuses: the website was probably the US site (wrong), the website does not have overhead like a store does and can offer items cheaper (wrong, the website clearly states "available in store only").

Check out Phil Uhl's photos of Roz's arrival in Hawaii, September 1.

Quotably is still absolutely useless. Whatever Twitter account I check, Quotably RSS feeds always seems to lag days or weeks behind.

Take Roz Savage's tweets, Twitter shows the latest posts, Quotably lists the last post as being from 21 days ago. I understand that there will invariably be some lag, but this is ridiculous.

No matter how nice the idea is, I have removed all Quotably RSS feeds from my reader and replaced them with the original Twitter feeds.

After 99 days of rowing, Roz Savage arrived in Hawaii, crossing the point that she considered her finish line. With her rowing she is raising awareness of environmental issues.