I really shouldn’t snicker. But the link below is to what has to be the stupidest question I’ve ever seen posted on Yahoo! Answers. And considering I’ve answered over 6,500 questions, that’s saying something.
Prepare yourself; think “dead puppies” or “naked grandmother” before clicking this link, or you may well burst an aneurysm laughing:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080731201724AAhwdIy
WordPress just keeps getting better.
Release 2.6 includes a several new features, such as wiki-style version control for posts, a toolbar-based “blog this” control, support for Google Gears (which promises to be a major breakthrough in Web development), native word counts, native image captioning, SSL support, and bubble notification when a plug-in has been upgraded. Plus a bunch of other features and bug fixes.
While I was reading the WordPress blog entry about Version 2.6, I noticed that they have a really, really cool syntax highlighting script: Not only is it clear, and not only does it do an excellent job of segmenting the various aspects of code, it included plain-text view and copy-to-clipboard links, right in the header.
So I decided to find out what it was and use it. And, simply enough, the plug-in is called “Google Syntax Highligher For WordPress” and it leverages the JavaScript-based syntaxhighligher hosted at Google Code.
Now, I had previously been using WP-Syntax, which is based on GeSHi and is based entirely server-side, and had been happy with it. But the syntaxhighlighter code looked cleaner and offered amenities, so I decided to make the change.
And in all honesty, I wish I had stuck with WP-Syntax. But once I made the change, it was way too late to go back.
So your operating system is Windows Vista, you have one of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) packages and you’re browsing the Web.
You notice a message pop up above the task bar: Adobe Updater has updates to install. So you click on the message to see the updates, then click the install button.
But shortly after, Updater starts reporting installation problems. Trying to re-install the updates doesn’t work. Asking it to move on and install additional updates only causes more errors. Nothing gets patched and you just wind up irritated.
What went wrong? Several things, which are the faults of both Adobe and Microsoft. Fortunately, these problems are relatively easy to fix.
Many people contact me directly with questions. I’m very flattered and very appreciative when that happens.
To ensure that I give you an answer you find useful, and everyone can share in that effort, I make the following requests.
Please post your question to Answers first, then e-mail me the question. That way, everyone can see the answer. Besides, I’m not the only person answering questions. If you post your question, you may well get a faster, or better, answer.
Once your question is posted, you’ll notice it has a little envelope icon right beneath your text. Simply click on that and follow the instructions to send the question to dhvrm@yahoo.com.
Please add your e-mail address in the Message field. Answers uses its own e-mail address to send questions, not yours; so I cannot contact you if you don’t put your e-mail address in the Message field.
On his radio show today, Jim Rome interviewed former Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Jerry Kramer, whose “Gridiron Greats” initiative means to help retired NFL players who face financial and medical problems.
Kramer is a legend for a reason. He’s also a great interview and, from what I can tell, a very sincere, very charitable and very honest man. But his heart, and his facts, are totally misplaced in his criticisms of the NFL Players Association, as well as the NFL itself, for what he perceives as their inaction, indifference and, seemingly, enmity on the issue of helping out players who helped build the league.
I’m not going to get too specific on that in this post. Rather, I want to address Kramer’s main argument against the NFLPA in his interview: the notion that the current Collective Bargaining Agreement should have given something to the retired players.
