Tech Query

by JHF on December 28, 2006 · 7 comments

in Blogs,Personal

I pulled the video that was up earlier because of one visitor’s reported difficulty in accessing this site. There are a number of little goodies working (or not working) at this location — like the script that switches the header images, the little temperature gauge halfway down the sidebar, etc. — and they may be giving some people fits. If you’re experiencing any problems with the way this page displays, please leave a comment and tell me a bit about your equipment. Thanks!

UPDATE: It’s back, obviously. Feel free to let me know whether or not it works.

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John K December 28, 2006 at 12:09 pm

I had trouble with the video on my Titanium 550 Mhz running 10.2.8 because I have an old version on Quicktime. I WAS looking forward to seeing it on my much more contemporary G5 at work until you too it down

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John K December 28, 2006 at 12:14 pm

Didn’t mean to sound indignant there, just hit the grey button before I could edit. But I bet there are lot of old QT version out there that won’t play it.

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Kate P December 28, 2006 at 12:38 pm

The page loaded for me earlier with the video in place, but I didn’t try to play it. I do see the Taos temperature thingie, and occasionally the header image switches; about 85% of the time it’s the one with the rowboat.

I’m on a fairly new 1.3 GHz laptop, Win XP, running Firefox 1.5.0.9. I have animations turned off, but Javascript ought to work for rotating header images.

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Joseph December 28, 2006 at 1:08 pm

This old year is ready to get a fork stuck in it. I have enjoyed your writing with all its permutations! Thank you very much for the interesting commentary. At times it got me upset. But what is a friendship if we can’t interchange ideas in a somewhat civilized manner with no hard feelings afterwards. You are a great writer – all great writers provoke, otherwise its not worth reading. Thank you for the titilations.
I saw your flick this morning before you yanked it. It was wonderful. It was the first time over the years I have seen an image of your smile. I can get an inkling of why your roommate likes you.
Happy New Year to you and your supervisor, speaking both Gregorian and Solstictically. I wish you well.

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John H. Farr December 28, 2006 at 3:23 pm

Joseph, you’re more than welcome here any old time. Thanks for the generous words. I hope my writing gives you more pleasure than aggravation, now that I’m reserving the political rants for comments on other people’s blogs. And even that is getting falling by the wayside to some degree, Allah be praised.

Kate P, I now have only two header images. Theoretically, they should each be showing up with equal frequency, but the script selects them randomly, so who knows. Before I had four identical ones, so that the experimental face-in-the-clouds header variations would only show up once in a while.

John K, I honestly didn’t think saving the video in the latest version of QT would create problems. Perhaps there’s a configuration setting that permits backward compatibility. Anyway, it’s up again, so have a look at my silliness.

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Steve Ingham December 29, 2006 at 2:49 pm

Had to get off my lazy ass and download the latest QT, then it worked perfectly….the comment above was correct….nice to see your demented little smile……..keep taking the tablets…or as in my case, I have either taken too many or not enough, can never remember which! ? HA ! More videos please……. Steve : )

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Carmel December 29, 2006 at 2:52 pm

I’ve been getting everything (yes, I know, I’m brilliant) on my G4/1GHz.

I like the silly video … you should have no trouble with that crazy photo for your upcoming ebook.

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