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I have an old Captcha plugin (ver 2.6) that didn’t play nice with the new WordPress 3.0. There were TTF errors all over the place, even in the WP dashboard. Took me a while but I finally turned it off in the Plug-ins section and all of the errors went away.

I posted on WordPress in the “How To and Troubleshooting” section. It’s very nontechnical but, hopefully it will help out for anyone running into this issue. Just look up Captcha and it should be there.

nothing like waking up on a monday morning to find out that life has already fucked you and is attempting to shit on you for good measure.

well… we’ll find out soon enough won’t we?

The Mac kool-aid? Or the Windows RC Cola now with Nutrasweet?

Caveat: This is an uneducated, beligerent, deeply subjective rant containing half-baked theories. Nothing more. Now get the fuck off my back.

Here’s a quote that I read in Mac|Life magazine that kinda set me off on this fun bit of this harangue of vitriol:

A true Mac geek is secure in the knowledge that he or she has chosen.

This makes me very happy that I am not a true Mac geek. This type of ego can only be rivaled with the likes of some quacks like Tom Cruise or Steve Ballmer. Of course you could substitute “Mac” with just about any other noun like: Sony.

I started this rant a year ago and forgot what my point was. (happens often) I guess it boils down to the fact that I can’t stand fanboys in general. grumpy bastard that I am.

My office is right on a wharf and on the other side of it there is a parking lot where there are a couple of seagulls attempting to open up what seems to be a clam or a can of some sort. They fly high and drop it onto the pavement. So far it hasn’t worked very well for them.

This is sweet. But what’s funny to me is that no one really mentions how easy that car is going to be to break into.

I’ve been trying out a new IM client that wants to be more than just IM, Digsby.

I’ve stopped using it because for some reason it won’t connect to Yahoo! IM. grrr..

Some friends of mine are putting together a podcast. It’s got some of their music mood of the moment, hate/love of the week, and some generally goofy, funny shit.

*caution: Explicit content. So if you’re a weenie, don’t listen.

Check ‘em out at:

Snake in a Vest

I had a little bit of a hard time with the pop up window for some reason, so I’ve downloaded the podcast below.

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Right click to download the podcast: SIAV Vol1

A bunch of friends and I are down in Disneyland during the Easter weekend, though we are just going for one day. Which kinda blows. We a staying at Staybridge Suites in Anaheim, nice little place and I got to park near the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile. At 3 AM. Woke up around 8 and now am waiting for the rest of everyone to wake the hell up.

UPDATE: The elevators like to growl at people when the doors open, much like a wild cat.

I’ve spent a better part of a week attempting switch from my work IBM laptop to a MacBook Pro (MBP). I would prefer to stay with my solid and trusty T60 but what I want to do and whom I want to work with is decidedly a Mac world. At least at the moment. But also it gives me the chance to tinker inside the Macs considering

Thankfully with Fusion, from the VMware guys, I can still use Win XP Pro. In fact some people I’ve heard, who’ve made the “switch”, are using almost exclusively, XP on their MBPs. Well, I’ll try to avoid that trap. not sure how successful I will be though.

This thing gets feaking hot. I mean hot! This isn’t really a laptop, more of a desktop replacement device. Which kinda sucks cause I’d like to use it like I do my IBM/Lenovo R61i; on my lap, in the park or at a coffee shop on the couch.

The keyboard is okay. The feedback of the keys is little if not there at all. It’s like hitting chiclets on a foam pad.It does an alright job, though I can tell why people get carpel tunnel using this.

I think the touch pad may be my biggest issue. It’s nice that you can do multi-touch but the sensitivity range from hyper to none during a scrolling sessions and mousing and clicking.

More later…

UPDATE: When you’re in a webpage on a MacBook Pro (Safari or Firefox) and you have to fill out fields, how come it doesn’t select a button when you tab down??

PS UPDATE: So, in the Universal Access, under System Preferences you can click on Keyboard Shortcuts and then click on the “Open Keyboard Preferences…” and change the radio button “Text boxes and lists only” to “All controls” and this will allow you to tab into things like pull down menus and buttons.