Ok, for the past many months I have been having an issue with Safari losing all of it’s cookies randomly. The Cookies.plist file would go empty thus losing all my logins for websites. I was not able to figure out what was eating Safari’s cookies until just recently.
There never seemed to be a pattern to what was causing it. Not a specific site. Nothing l could seemingly track and reproduce. I always had a feeling it was caused by Mac OS X 10.5. The issue also appeared to be separate from a recent cookie issue that was fixed. But I might have found the real reason.
The desktop software Plaxo provides to sync the Mac OS X Addressbook appears to set tracking cookies in the Cookies.plist. It does this without even visiting the site. And it seems to have a habbit of destroying the Cookies.plist when it tries to update sometimes. This might be due to not using the Cookies.plist API, or it might conflict with an update from a website happening at the same time, thus nuking the file.
Either way, for the longest time my cookies would disappear multiple times a day. But now after removing the Plaxo software (partly a seemingly evil input manager) no more cookie destruction. If you have Cookies disappearing, and Plaxo for Mac installed. Do an uninstall of Plaxo and see if your problem goes away.
Today I was sitting in the living room and Kadie came and hopped into my lap purring and rubbing against me. Eventually she got comfy and sat there purring for a bit. Every so often Kadie would shake his head and I at this point remembered the ear mites, and that we had some stuff for it.
I asked my mom to get it out for me so I did not have to get up and displace Kadie. I needed to look at the back for the directions, and as I was reading them Kadie sat up and started sniffing the package, still purring. Slowly with some intense sniffing Kadie stopped purring and started looking for an escape. He knew what was coming and jumped down and wandered away. I followed him around till he got in my bed, and then was finally able to administer the drops. I rubbed his ears for a bit when done. Kadie is now somewhere upstairs shunning his usual spot on my bed to sleep/hang out.
Today I was a judge for the SkillsUSA regional state competition in Wisconsin. Doug asked me to do it on Monday during video production class. I was quite honored to even be asked. The 4 judges were Doug, myself, Jon, and David. Doug and David being teachers at MATC and Jon being a fellow student who also works in the video field.
I think things went well, I learned more about the world of video and how people start out in it, along with thinking critically about video pieces. I hope I brought a unique perspective to the judging.
This past thursday was the annual MATC Art Club trip to Chicago. In general the Graphic Design students go, but these past 2 years Emmalee has gotten a group of Visual Communications students to come along.
This is my third year going on this trip, my first was while I was still in the Graphic Design program, and must have been in Fall ‘03. And now ‘07, and ‘08. This year ended up being the least time spent in The Art Institute of Chicago Museum. At one point while walking around we saw a poster advertising the Field Museum and an exhibit of mythical creatures. When Emmalee saw that she went nuts and decided we should check it out. The day was half over at this point, so most of the rest was used there. Partly looking for Issac, but I won’t get into that.
Speaking of looking for someone, I was the doofus who made the busses late to leave this year. The past 2 years they loaded and unloaded in the same spot, this year they had to load in a different spot and I did not catch the notice. I went to where the map said and previous years had gone. I felt so stupid.
Rather recently people have figured out some ways to make YouTube display H.246 video on the site. That method is to add “&fmt=18″ to the end of the URL. That works well, but wouldn’t it be better if it could be done with a simple click? For all those who don’t use addons like Greasemonkey or the like, a bookmarklet would be ideal.
That old theme color scheme was not doing it for me. Thus, “Major Delay” is now 0.5. Less blue, more grey. What do you think? I secretly always hated the old blue color-scheme. Then again, I don’t seem to like many things I make. For some reason other peoples stuff is easier for me to feel is good.
So today I was playing with new social networking sites, and I signed up for Bebo, like all new sites it lets you look for people you know with your address book… Most don’t go ahead and spam each and every email address in your address book. They just show you who you know that has the service, and THEN has ANOTHER option to email other people.
Well Bebo decides it is cool to just by default spam everyone. Fuck them.
I apologize to anyone who might have gotten that email from them/me. I did not intend to send it. I look like a fool now. It ain’t so bad when it might have been a few people, but this was 290+. Some random friends online, some friends in real life, lots of work / school contacts some were phones email addresses!
Again, fuck Bebo. DO NOT sign up with them…
And I do know I was stupid for using my addressbook to find contacts. But I have not had other sites do this; I guess I am too trusting.
So today I was playing with new social networking sites, and I signed up for Bebo, like all new sites it lets you look for people you know with your address book… Most don’t go ahead and spam each and every email address in your address book. They just show you who you know that has the service, and THEN has ANOTHER option to email other people.