No Audiovox SMT5600 for me
Boy am I jealous of those on AT&T…
Continue Reading 1 comment October 28th, 2004
Archive for October, 2004
WordPress and Windows XP SP2 Woes
A few weeks ago my weblog and some others stopped working (with at least NewsGator, IntraVnews and SharpReader). I was busy with other things so I hoped that the problem would somehow sort itself out, but it didn’t. After many hours of research (and deleting any possibly offending XML from my blog), Pete from http://pete99.net and I figured out that it was a result of my upgrade to Windows XP SP2 couple with a bad header being generated by WordPress. (See http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/afontes/archive/2004/10/15/28726.aspx for one of the many descriptions of the problem.) So those of you running WordPress 1.2 should change “Last Modified” to “Last-Modified” in wp-blog-header.php.
Now I have to go and add all of my deleted old posts and links back. Of course I no longer remember the original post dates so old posts may look like they are new.
Continue Reading 3 comments October 23rd, 2004
I will never buy a Sony product again
Horrible support seems to be the norm at Sony.
Continue Reading 1 comment October 23rd, 2004
Automatic Amazon.com discount
Scobleizer (comments here) asks about experiences with a9.com, amazon.com’s new search engine which provides results from google, augmented with book searches (via amazon.com), movie searches (via imdb.com), history of previous searches, etc. It also provides a diary mechanism to let you annotate web pages and a centralized store for your bookmarks. (Personally, I’m going to consider using del.icio.us for bookmark storage. Joshua keeps coming up with really cool ideas!)
Scoble misses the most important part of a9.com: if you sign in, it gives you an automatic pi/2 discount on your amazon.com purchases.
October 23rd, 2004
The hazards of keyword-based advertising
Keyword-based advertising: an article on the problems with Kryptonite locks contains advertising for Kryptonite locks.
Continue Reading October 23rd, 2004