Monthly Archive for March, 2006

I’m the type of person who leaves his computer on all the time. For the purpose of this post, I specifically leave it on while I’m at work.

Netvibes, which I have posted about before, is my first homepage. By first, I mean that it occupies the first tab when I launch Firefox. Netvibes pulls down your chosen RSS feeds throughout the day. When it encounters a problem, it pops up a little box like this one.

For the last two or three days, I’ve gotten home to find that same little box. Only, when I click OK, I find another little box just like it, right where the first one used to be. Ten minutes ago I arranged them all over the screen, and took a screenshot, which I have cropped here, but I think you get the basic idea.

That’s a lot of error messages.

I managed to click through all the visible message windows, but after that, a new one appeared when I clicked OK. When this happens (it’s happened more than once), I am forced to call up Task Manager and just kill Firefox.

I estimate that I clicked OK on 100 message boxes before killing Firefox today. I’ve only been gone about eleven hours.

Dear Netvibes: Fix this. If there’s an error, make the whole page crap out to a 404, or something. Anything besides this.

I decided to add Newsvine’s RSS feed to my Google Sidebar’s Web Clips yesterday, and I received a small surprise — ABC News was the only feed. Also surprising was the fact that the “Automatically add commonly viewed clips” option was checked.

When Google Desktop 3.0 beta came out, I downloaded it. Seems like it might have a few bugs.

Oh, and when I move or delete files it doesn’t follow them. WTF? I shouldn’t have to manually index every time I move a single file. That’s sub-par.

[UPDATE] Suddenly Sidebar is adding feeds.  Perhaps it is just trying to vex me.

Still, I complained about how Desktop loses files when I moved them on March 5 … the San Jose Mercury News didn’t write about that until the next day …