In what looks like a bug, Google is now warning that every site may harm your computer. Here is what I see, when I search for “news”:
Notice that every site has “This site may harm your computer” link, and when you click on any link you get a warning page.
After being so satisfied with Windows 7, I’m now experiencing instability in Internet Explorer 8. IE8 crashes quite often, and not as nice as it should. The crashes are usually not limited to specific tabs. The entire application freezes, and I need to forcefully shut it down. A few errors are linked specifically to Google Toolbar 5.
Finally, a good episode! Only one time jump, gave us some time to enjoy one steady time-line. A few interesting things:
Looking forward to the next one.
A nice episode. A few unrealistic scenes (well, it is 24 after all), such as the president’s husband killing that Secret Service agent, but other than that, a pretty solid episode. However, I think it was the first episode of 24 that has a large number of casualties, but doesn’t move me at all. Somehow they messed things up with the aircraft collision. Just a far away explosion that looked pretty fake.
Even Minesweeper was changed. You can now play with flowers instead of mines, using the Change Appearance command under the Game menu.
I’m using Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. I tried to install an add-on using the “Get More Add-ons” Window. IE8 insisted that I should download IE8 first. Don’t believe me? See for yourself:
I’m not happy about this one. Somehow, all of the latest and greatest episodes of my favorite shows are not what they used to be.
So, what do we have here? Mutiny on the way? Civil war? Who is the father of the child? The prophet speaking again? A love story between the commander and the president? OK. That’s it.There was no one scene which caught my attention in any way (suspense,tension, anything…). Not good…
I’m very happy with it. It’s becoming my number one OS, although, because of disk space limits on that partition, I cannot install most of my software there. Still, it’s enough for internet, and media center.
It’s really a thought, not thoughts. I don’t like where it’s going. I didn’t like the season 4 episode “Constant”, and this season seems like it’s going to be one big “Constant”. This time travel business makes it easy to make a mess of things story-wise, so I hope this won’t be another Heroes, which I abandoned mid-season.
I’m forced to call it off. There is too much sand in the air! It would be difficult to breath in this weather.
I just had a message that “Distributed Link Tracking Client” caused an error. I chose to send the error information to Microsoft. Surprisingly, a few minutes after, I got a message back with a possible solution. Alas, I couldn’t see the solution because “The program cannot display the webpage”. Well, it’s the thought that counts…
Some rumors about how ABC screened the first episode. The x264 version isn’t out yet. Me sad :-(
Update: 7am here, and episode 1 is finally available, although I won’t see it before Saturday, or even Sunday. Bummer.
Had a quick look at the Media Center. Looks kind of cool. I think I’ll start using it more, instead of the Vista one. It has nice Sports features, where you can get results of games, and track sport stars. It doesn’t interest me that much, but it looks kind of cool.
Spoilers ahead!!!
Let me think, Jack Bauer forced to shoot a female coworker, and has to fake her death… hmm… sounds familiar.
Other than that, a fairly average episode, with a few inconsistencies.
BTW, don’t worry about Walker. I’m sure she took a deep breath.
Spoilers ahead!
What a dark episode. First Dualla, then Thrace, and finally, the fifth!
Thought of taking the bike to work, but it's too wet outside. Maybe tomorrow. Lots of email in my Inbox this morning.
I’ve noticed that when I search for games on the Start menu, the machine almost freezes. Further investigations have shown that both CPU cores reach 100%, and even more investigations showed that the problem is with avgrsx.exe, AVG Resident Shield service. Now I need to find a solution.
Update: It appears this is not a Windows 7 issue, but rather a general AVG issue. I’ve installed Avira Antivir instead.
I'm a Firefox user. In last couple of years I have always thought that the various Internet Explorers were rather slow and heavy, and Internet Explorer 8 was no different. Today, I installed Firefox on Windows 7, and as usual, I've set Firefox as my default browser. However, after a few minutes I understood that one of the main features of Windows 7 isn't working with Firefox, and I set Internet Explorer 8 as my default browser.
If you've read anything about Windows 7, you probably know about the "Aero peek", the feature that enables you to easily browse between open windows of the same application. With Internet Explorer 8, each tab is treated is a separate Window, and so, it is easy to browse between tabs. This feature is not available with Firefox.
The second feature, which is a great addition, is the download progress. When you download files, you see a progress bar on the IE icon in the task bar. That way, you don’t have to check the download window each time.
A third feature is that when a tab crashes, it doesn’t bring down the entire IE session. Only the tab crashes, and then restarts in the same location!
So, IE is now my default browser. The only thing I really miss is the spell checker.
Restless night, cold morning, long day ahead. Miami SWAT tonight? We'll see… In any case I need to prepare my hard-disk for next week's TV shows…
Well, I have seen the two episodes today, after all. What can I say… It’s nice, nothing less, nothing more. Episode highlights:
1) The "battle” between Chloe and Janis. Chloe won!
2) Agent Walker pulling a “Bauer” on Tanner.
3) Tony is really a good guy (not really a surprise though…).
What’s next? Well, I guess Hillinger’s move is going to cost his wife’s life. Probably, as they are next to land, they are going to be a good target.
Spoilers ahead!
Yesterday evening I saw the first two episodes of 27, season 7. Well, I’d never thought I’d say it, but after a year I’ve missed Jack.
What has happened to Jack over this missing year? Well, he’s become more mellow.
What happened to CTU? Disbanded. But the FBI also has moles, so it’s OK.
What happened to to Chloe? She became Janeane Garofalo. Speaking of Janeane, it’s funny to see her here, so serious, and the comment about understanding sarcasm, was quite hilarious.
So, Tony is back. This is no surprise to anyone seeing the promos from last year. The plot isn’t surprising also to anyone who has seen Die Hard (key plot points taken from two Die Hard movies). However, bonus point for not taking down two planes.
Bottom line? Nice action, although sometimes boring in the White House scenes.
I’ll probably see the next two sometime this week (not today though).
Has been quite nice, without a coat, and in a new route, which was nicer.
It's getting too much. Had troubles sleeping. Saw the enemy in front of my eyes.
This morning I've started downloading Windows 7 at home.
Couldn’t. I got a direct download link, but it only downloaded 1.4GB out of the 2.4GB ISO, so I’ve got nothing. Not to mention that I don’t have a product key either.
More Crysis Warhead. Getting pretty good at it. Too bad it keeps crashing because of the display driver issues. Also had a short bike ride today.
Yesterday I saw the last three episodes. Too bad the show was canceled. Although I didn’t fall for it at first, it kind of grew into me, so too bad.
I find that if I ignore my incoming mail for a while, I can get more done. Other than that, I'm fairly tired today.
Take a deep breath. You did OK. They just think you made a mistake. It's nothing personal. You can take your time to show them that they are wrong.
… I hate it when I receive emails claiming that I'm wrong, when I know I'm not. It usually gets me very annoyed. I should probably take a deep breath.
Yes, you guessed right! With the bikes. One thing that I've learned is that next time I will do it without a coat on…
I tried purchasing an album today online, and found out that I already purchased it two years ago. I cannot find it anywhere. I’ve tried emailing the site, asking to download again. Hope they agree.
I don’t have any idea how I lost that album!
Update: Found it on my computer at work!
Yesterday evening I chose to read a book (Asimov) than to play CW. It was an interesting choice. This morning I awoke to a very cold one. Probably 11°C, but with the wind chill it was probably closer to 7 or even 5°C.
I'm starting to think seriously to come to work on the bikes twice a week. In need to check if it's allowed to bring bikes inside the building.
