Just Parking

I’m running out of titles for these blog entries.  Guess I have to come up with a new system. 

 

Out of the blue this morning I received the first update in over 8 months from Version Tracker by E-mail.  I’d given up on ever hearing from them again.  Guess they finally got their database restored or something.  Don’t know about you but I treat every E-mail from a bank with extreme prejudice.  I’ve gotten 3 now from TD-Canada Trust and I just keep deleting them. 

 

I keep trying to tell myself not to fix what ain’t broke but I’m not good at taking my own advice.  The latest version of Mozilla Firefox makes it impossible to play youTube videos or run scripts; just when I’d gotten it working again.  I can’t even get it to run NPR’s Pipedreams stream.  In fact things are so bad I had to return to Maxthon as my default browser even if it is slower—at least it works. Archos’ recently released new version of their Link programme collapsed immediately upon install and every time thereafter—I just restored the old version.  Just downloaded the latest iTunes/Quick Time update—almost 50,000 Kb.  I haven’t gotten brave enough to go to work on that one yet.  That install takes some time and some watching. 

 

In the last couple weeks I’ve been warming up to Google’s new iGoogle homepage.  It seems to work well with Mozilla Firefox and is easily configured, features drag and drop arrangement of the page’s elements and widgets for radio, search, weather, time, calendar, mail, comics, and games.  Interestingly the radio plugin doesn’t work in Flock.  Started using the latter browser because in integrates so easily with Google’s Blogger. 

 

I should be getting ready to go shopping but I just can’t manufacture the enthusiasm for the task.  I should also be doing laundry but see above sentence.  Watched two movies on VCR yesterday and worked at Harry Potter. I’ve finally reached mention of the Deathly Hallows of the title.