Random Leakage #13
Time for some randomness bloggyness goodness here on the BL
Comment Hell on Blogspot
Captcha.. user ID, password, wash, rinse, repeat
I follow a decent amount of blogs that use Blogger.com (Google’s Blogspot). To leave comments on any of them, I need to use my Google account [or OpenID is another choice] on top of also entering a captcha. While I understand the need to keep spammers out, it’s a mind-numbing process to leave a comment most of the time, having me enter my Google user name and password, clicking on Preview. Then entering the captcha, then entering my password again, hitting Preview, then once I’m logged in and verifying my comment is there, then hitting Publish.
So why do I have to do that each and every time I visit? Because it seems that after a few days, Google logs me out from that particular blog, for security reasons. So when I go to leave a comment on a post, there is no captcha phrase showing. In order for one to be generated, you must be logged in.
Once I get logged in, then a captcha phrase shows up. But then my password is blanked out. So I must then login again in order for it to keep my credentials. My reason to hit Preview each time is so that I don’t lose my comment [which has happened many times] throughout the several logins.
Am I doing this wrong or are there others who experience this same crazy process?
Bear With Me Here
Thumbs way down for this brand
Both my wife and I love those cinnamon bears that are like jelly candies. So good. And we normally get them at the local grocery store, most often picking up the generic brand. They are pretty damn tasty.
In my pre-Valentine’s shopping, I had some trouble finding the heart-shaped ones, and even more trouble finding the brand we normally get. So I found something that looked good.
BLECH! Horrible. They had a stale taste to them, hardly any cinnamon bite and were just plain bad.
Reminder: never get the Sweet brand ever again. Best to try another store.
Windows 7
Original image found on Addictive Tips
It’s been the better part of a year since I started using Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro under VMware Fusion. I’ve had to since some of the remote users at my day job have bought new computers and I needed something to help me help them when they need to get connected to our network. I have to admit, as a die hard Mac user, that it’s not bad. It seems Microsoft didn’t want round two of the hated OS known as Vista. And from what I’ve found, they left pretty much all of it behind. Sure, there’s new ways of doing things when compared to Windows XP, but moving forward was never without roadblocks.
But, I disgres. It wasn’t until the beginning of January when my work actually purchased any computers that could run Windows 7 [all previous systems would choke trying to run anything greater than Windows XP]. In fact, we weren’t even given a choice to run Windows XP. The systems only came with Windows 7.
Some of those new systems are also running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. It’s been a small challenge getting some our legacy apps we use around here to run under 64-bit. Which means, we find work arounds. Such is the life in the IT world.
Any Windows 7 users out there? How are you liking it? Any stories to tell?
About The Author
I’m not a huge fan of having to sign up for yet-another-account just so I can leave a comment on someone’s blog. I went to leave a comment on someone’s livejournal the other day but I needed to have an account so I bailed.
I do the same, even though I’ve found that more blogs are using Discus and I needed to sign up for that. But most other places, I use my own details or go through the painful Google steps.
I have that happen with Google about once a month, where I have to log in before it will remember me, but then I don’t have an issue.
I just built a new computer with Windows 7 64-bit, and I’m loving it. Such an improvement!
I run into it more often, but hope that it will improve. I can live with once a month.
I’m learning how Windows 7 works and while there are some quirks, I’m finding it’s pretty good.
I’ve had the same problem with Blogspot. It gets old quick.
We have a couple of 64-bit Win7 computers. I spent hours and hours trying to sort out why they were reporting random Office 2007 files as locked. At first I thought it was a Netware Client problem (as many folks in the Novell forums were having the same problem). Then I found it was also a problem on Microsoft networks and was able to reproduce the problem on one of our Microsoft servers — a registry tweak fixed it for a while… and then I installed our AV product and it returned. I’m running the boxes without AV until I’m certain it is part of the problem.
Our 32-bit Win7 installs are mostly OK — except for the two that continually lose the desktop shortcuts.
As a wise man once said, “Such is the life in the IT world.”
I have an XP VM on my MacBook that I use for Quicken. I’ve started using MoneyWell instead, but keep Quicken for history (I gave up on importing years of data) and investments.
I have an XP VM on my Linux laptop at work that I use for vSphere. I’m highly annoyed that there’s no vSphere for Linux.
I have XP on a system at home that my kids use, mostly for web browsing or word processing. This was actually the system that my MacBook Pro ostensibly replaced nearly three years ago. I was reminded of this when I started talking about replacing it with an iMac (“You already replaced that system!”). Even so, I plan to “replace” it with a Mac of one sort or another this year. At this point, I’m waiting for the iMac updates.
I have an XP VM and a Win7 VM on my MacBook Pro. I switched from Quicken on the Mac to iBank, which has worked pretty well.
Didn’t realize there was no vSphere for Linux. You would think with VMware being built on a Linux kernel, there would be a client.
As for the WinXP system, the Mac mini has proved to be a very decent candidate.
Well… if forced to use Windows, I’d rather have 7 than use the complete vortex of suck that was Windows Vista. I am STILL pissed that I had to pay MORE money to Microsoft get 7 when the entire OS should have been a free upgrade for Windows Vista sufferers. That being said, I still find Windows to be a less productive work environment compared to my Mac. I absolutely dread it every time I’m forced to boot it up.
I’ve been working with some form of Windows for over 25 years now and I still dread some parts of having to work with it. Windows 7, while being frustrating to learn where things are now, is not bad.
Does that happen on my blog? I sometimes have the same issue as Adam, but that’s it.
It does, but it’s only when there’s a captcha. Any other Google blogs that don’t have captcha, I’ve never had to re-login.
I’ve had the same issue with Blogger. It makes me insane. Why can’t you just log in and put the captcha in at the same time? It makes no sense.
Cinammon gummy bears? I had no idea they even existed. What kind do you usually buy?
I know, I thought the same thing after losing countless numbers of comments, having to remember what I wrote and retype. It’s why I use the preview until I see the publish option with my comment intact.
The brand we get is a generic store brand (Western Family) and they are pretty good.
The Blogger commenting system has been complete crap just about forever. Back in the day I remember a lot of people with Blogger blogs using Haloscan to manage their comments, but then I think that company folded and took years of people’s comments with it.
Copasetic Beth’s blog used Haloscan and when it went away, so did years of comments. I prefer the comments to stay native, like with WordPress.
The Blogger commenting system makes me crazy, so I don’t comment on Blogger blogs very often. There shouldn’t be so many hoops to jump through!
I don’t mind the ones that don’t use Captcha. Those have hardly been an issue. That stupid captcha code changes every time you do something that causes a refresh.
Blogger comments has driven me nuts forever. I just added disqus to my blog recently, and it is worlds ahead. Unfortunately it dropped 18 months of comments, aka all of them, dammit, but I find this way better.
Yeah, when switching comment systems, you lose the old. It’s too bad that something like Discus couldn’t have an import older option.