Now it works. The change was simple. I ran Windows Update. I discovered Windows had not updated, contrary to what I thought, for a few months because some Windows service had been turned off. Once I got Windows Updated working again with a restart or two, Firefox 3b5 now can download files again.

For instances, I played around with the state machine module. It is a pretty cool idea. To be honest the multiple forms do not do it justice. It could really benefit from an interface similar to Yahoo! Pipes.

Here I am complaining with out offering a solution. So, my really basic solution would be for a Drupal Advance UI API.

To: Seamus Leahy

Good morning, Seamus:

We recently sent you some very important email information on (February 6th & April 3rd) with a couple of followup phone calls. We previously provided this informaiotn [sic] to [previous person with the name misspelled]. This could have proved to be very beneficial for your organization’s valuable website, and for some reason or other, you chose not to respond to these significant messages! Unfortunately, we consider that as a lack of professional courtesy, and of good communications skills on your part..

It’s probably not your fault - there are literally thousands of people, like you, in the business world today who don’t know how to communicate properly! You just happen to be one of them. That’s why we also created a popular 1/2 hour T.V. program, called “Communicating Today”, on Ch 10, Fairfax Cable, which is designed to help people, like yourself, to become better, more courteous communicators! We suggest that you watch this program, asap - because you could benefit from it! It “airs” on Sundays @ 3:30 pm, Fridays @ 6:30 am and Wednesdays @ 8:30 pm.

“Here’s to better, and more courteous communicating”!

Thanks, Seamus.

John Monsul
Account Executive
KMAnet
and
Producer/Host of
“Communicating Today”
Channel 10, Fairfax Cable
Fairfax, VA.

Enjoy watching “Communicating Today” this weekend!

Will I watch “Communicating Today?” Heck no.

Even if they did call and email, which I do not remember, it is nothing personal because the number of cold calls I get is absurd.

UPDATE

I can’t believe I did not recognize the name earlier. Yes this person does call and leave emails all the time! Our receptionist has become very familiar with him. From what I have learned, he started calling my organization well over five years ago and we have never purchased anything. After a few months of not calling us, he starts again. But, the kicker is he starts by asking for essentially my predecessor’s predecessor’s predecessor. After a few attempts of being told the person no longer works here, he then remembers the next person. The patterns repeats until he remembers me.

While I was down at SXSW, he calls up and asks for me to which the receptionist tells him I am out for the remainder of the week. He called the very next day.

I have nothing against cold sales call as long as they stop once it is clear that there is no interest.

But I just keep coming back to one single idea. It is centered around what the user is looking at on the page. Since reading the users mind is even more out of the question, it would be awesome if the webpage knew what the user was currently looking at. If it knew you were reading the main content it would dim the chrome of the page. Or if your eyes were darting around looking for something, it could start highlighting useful items based upon what your eyes have already looked at. Lots of ideas, but a lot less on how to actually do them.

If the proximity to Metro Center was not there, I would have look up the address in Google Maps and find the nearest Metro station. The reason being is I travel through the city on Metro Rail which has effected my sense of location to be the proximity of things to a particular Metro stop.

For those who do not know, CareFirst is a health insurance company.

I cannot help to wonder if this is related to a phone conversation I had two years ago with a CareFirst employee located in Baltimore Maryland.

Me: I keep receiving invoices which seem to be in error.

CareFirst: Please give me the invoice number.

…

CareFirst: There is no such invoice in the system for you. Is the return address from DC?

Me: Yes.

CareFirst: Just ignore it. They have no idea what they are doing in the DC office. They are always sending random documents and invoices to people.

From my snooping, Wordpress 2.2.x has a new hook and has changed a hook. Before 2.2, the delete_post hook was called after the post was deleted. With 2.2, delete_post hook is call before the post is deleted whereas a new hook deleted_post is called after the post is deleted. In all the cases, the hook function is passed the post ID.

This is very good because originally you would be out of luck if you needed information (date, slug, etc) about the deleted post. Now you can grab the information, based upon the ID, before the post is deleted from the database.

your site is disgusting

worst site ever… slow.. wide(wtf) - and i’ve never complained about a site before.. id rather eat my own face then come back here.

…and I have never complained about a lack of capitalization. I am just kidding about the last part; it was too easy. Actually I am glad the person felt such a reaction he or she needed to locate my contact form to tell me about the emotional reaction resulting from using this site. Awesome.

Admittedly, my very first reaction was a mix of humor and disappointed. I could have said a smart ass comment but it loses its punch when not delivered in person and there is no real constructive purpose to it.

If the author does happen to read this (since the author did not leave a real name or email address), I have one request I want the author to answer:

Tell me your story—account, feelings, narrative, sensations—about your browsing journey with this site: preamble of your browsing, how and why you came to the site, your journey through this site, and finally the immediate and long term departure from this site.