Thursday, October 02, 2008

No FlagOut log-in

I don’t have to log-in to FlagOut any more.
With my old Netscape — and Internet-Explorer before that — I didn’t have to log-in either. I had the FlagOut front-page as my home-page on both, so every time I fired up, I went automatically to the FlagOut front-page, without log-in.
So when I upgraded to a newer Netscape, I tried to make the FlagOut front-page my home-page.
But the minions in Utah apparently installed some kind of redirect to the log-in page.
Oh well; no big deal. Log-in only takes a few seconds. Everything is saved on my ‘pyooter anyway.
(My ancient Netscape still gets the front-page. I guess my home-page selection for it was before their redirect.)
When I installed FireFox (“Fox-Fire”), it too did the same redirect to the log-in page; as did Flock.
So I made the FlagOut log-in page my home-page for Flock, and a bookmark for “Fox-Fire.”
(My home-page in FireFox was the Curve web-cam.)
But then Flock started acting questionably.
Posts to FlagOut were taking forever, so I switched to FireFox.
Back to boomin’-and-zoomin’; and driving Jack bonkers. (It’s so easy!)
FireFox has since done a couple upgrades. —1) Was changing its buttons to OS-X style, and —2) was saving tabs. (Another upgrade was copy/paste to the font your word-processor was using, saving a step.)
So now every time I shut off, I get a prompt: “Wanna save your tabs for the next time ya fire up?”
Sure! Why not?! It’ll just fire up the three tabs I already got open: the web-cam, my blog site, and FlagOut. —Saving my having to fire up each tab.
VIOLA! Days later when I fire up, it goes directly to the FlagOut page I was on; e.g. “Where did you board?” —Avoiding log-in.

  • “FlagOut” is our family’s web-site, named that because I had a mentally-retarded kid-brother (Down Syndrome) who lived at home, and loudly insisted the flag be flown every day. “Flag-Out! Sun comes up, the flag goes up! Sun goes down, the flag comes down.” I fly the flag partly in his honor. (He died at 14 in 1968.) —Our family’s web-site is the location of many arguments and put-downs; namely that I am reprehensible and stupid.
  • RE: “Minions in Utah....” —Our family’s web-site is run by MyFamily.com, based in Salt Lake City.
  • “‘Pyooter” is computer.
  • “Fox-Fire” is my siblings’ put-down mispronunciation of the Internet browser “FireFox.” —They all noisily insist I should be using Microsoft Internet-Explorer, like them. (I did long ago; and it made a mess!)
  • RE: “The Curve web-cam........” —Horseshoe Curve (the “Curve”), west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, is by far the BEST railfan spot I have ever been to. Horseshoe Curve is a national historic site. It was a trick used by the Pennsylvania Railroad to get over the Allegheny mountains without steep grades. Horseshoe Curve was opened in 1854, and is still in use. (I am a railfan, and have been since I was a child.) —Horseshoe Curve has a web-cam, but it’s awful.
  • “Jack” is my all-knowing, blowhard brother-from-Boston, the macho ad-hominem king, who noisily badmouths everything I do or say.
  • “OS-X” is the Apple operating-system I use. (I use a MAC; much to the dismay of all my siblings.)
  • Each web-site a browser opens is a “tab.” (An Internet browser can often run two-or-more web-sites at a time; “multiple tabs.”)
  • “Where did you board?” is a FlagOut post my brother Jack did. He had taken a picture of the Cheyenne, WY railroad yards, and was asking where I had boarded a steam-locomotive railroad excursion years ago. His hope was that I’d make a faux pas, and that he could thereby claim I was stupid.

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