Force-Insanity......
Similar to “force-quit;” a procedure I have to do occasionally, as does the PC-crowd.
Usually what freezes is Internet-Explorer: thank ya Gates.
Quark is a hand-grenade too. You can’t run Photoshop or Word with it — that’s asking for a conflict — sometimes so bad you have to reboot the whole machine.
BlogSpot.com prefers FireFox, and we can see why.
I throw stuff on it with IE, but IE won’t let me add pictures. In fact, it doesn’t show the add-pik icon at all.
When I first started the blog I tried Netscape 7.0, my browser-of-choice (except for online-ordering).
It would let me add piks, but wouldn’t let me post anything.
Linda has FireFox, but uses IE with MyFamblee.com and most other Internet-functions. FireFox’s display of FlagOut is tiny.
I could get FireFox for my rig, but they want OSX. I have OSX, and plan to run it someday, but now we run 9.2.
OSX is better, but I’d have to figure it out. Since I don’t have time to figure out OSX, we drive 9.2 (which is similar to the 8.6 I had at the mighty Mezz).
Which means no FireFox. The posts get added to the blog with IE; that works.
Our picture workaround is for me to e-mail the picture-files to Linda (our current back-door network), so she can attach them with her FireFox.
But yesterday (Sunday, February 4, 2007) the blog wouldn’t let her log in. She uses my log-in and password.
BlogSpot.com has an upgraded software they’ve been hawking for months, and they wanted her to upgrade my blog. (FORCE-INSANITY ALERT!)
I’ve passed on that in the past. BlogSpot.com lets you use their original software if you want, and I do since the new software wants a Google-account.
“Google is trying to take over the Internet,” Linda observed.
We don’t even know what a Google-account is, except it sounds like something I neither need nor want.
So we gave up attaching the picture. “I ain’t that serious about blogging,” I said. “Who reads blogs anyway? I’m only doing it because I can; I don’t need to.”
I already had an HTML picture-table in the blog-story (“Tale of Two Pitchers”), but it was empty; a blank box with the missing-picture icon.
—Until hours later, when I tried to do it myself.
I went in and grabbed the hoary controls of Linda’s PC, and attempted to log into the blog.
For some unknown reason it let me — are they secretly monitoring the actual ‘pyooter-user with some fancy-dance gizmo? It took me to the fiddle-page, and let me attach the pik.
So the pik (the pitchers) is on the blog.
I also had tried to log-in earlier from my own machine, and got the dreaded “upgrade” page. The story had been posted to the blog beforehand, but now I couldn’t fiddle it.
So, now that the pik was added I decided to try upgrading the blog.
I hit the “upgrade” link, and got sent to a log-in; but no continue.
Ah, yes; Internet-Explorer.
I guess I can only upgrade with FireFox.
Later, dude!
Usually what freezes is Internet-Explorer: thank ya Gates.
Quark is a hand-grenade too. You can’t run Photoshop or Word with it — that’s asking for a conflict — sometimes so bad you have to reboot the whole machine.
BlogSpot.com prefers FireFox, and we can see why.
I throw stuff on it with IE, but IE won’t let me add pictures. In fact, it doesn’t show the add-pik icon at all.
When I first started the blog I tried Netscape 7.0, my browser-of-choice (except for online-ordering).
It would let me add piks, but wouldn’t let me post anything.
Linda has FireFox, but uses IE with MyFamblee.com and most other Internet-functions. FireFox’s display of FlagOut is tiny.
I could get FireFox for my rig, but they want OSX. I have OSX, and plan to run it someday, but now we run 9.2.
OSX is better, but I’d have to figure it out. Since I don’t have time to figure out OSX, we drive 9.2 (which is similar to the 8.6 I had at the mighty Mezz).
Which means no FireFox. The posts get added to the blog with IE; that works.
Our picture workaround is for me to e-mail the picture-files to Linda (our current back-door network), so she can attach them with her FireFox.
But yesterday (Sunday, February 4, 2007) the blog wouldn’t let her log in. She uses my log-in and password.
BlogSpot.com has an upgraded software they’ve been hawking for months, and they wanted her to upgrade my blog. (FORCE-INSANITY ALERT!)
I’ve passed on that in the past. BlogSpot.com lets you use their original software if you want, and I do since the new software wants a Google-account.
“Google is trying to take over the Internet,” Linda observed.
We don’t even know what a Google-account is, except it sounds like something I neither need nor want.
So we gave up attaching the picture. “I ain’t that serious about blogging,” I said. “Who reads blogs anyway? I’m only doing it because I can; I don’t need to.”
I already had an HTML picture-table in the blog-story (“Tale of Two Pitchers”), but it was empty; a blank box with the missing-picture icon.
—Until hours later, when I tried to do it myself.
I went in and grabbed the hoary controls of Linda’s PC, and attempted to log into the blog.
For some unknown reason it let me — are they secretly monitoring the actual ‘pyooter-user with some fancy-dance gizmo? It took me to the fiddle-page, and let me attach the pik.
So the pik (the pitchers) is on the blog.
I also had tried to log-in earlier from my own machine, and got the dreaded “upgrade” page. The story had been posted to the blog beforehand, but now I couldn’t fiddle it.
So, now that the pik was added I decided to try upgrading the blog.
I hit the “upgrade” link, and got sent to a log-in; but no continue.
Ah, yes; Internet-Explorer.
I guess I can only upgrade with FireFox.
Later, dude!
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