Itunes RSS feeds changed

I don’t know exactly when, but sometime between Saturday and Monday, my iTunes feed that was validating just fine at feedvalidator.org (see it here is gettg error s now, saying the feed is not valid . Today, this new error apperared: iTunes elements should only be present in feeds encoded as UTF-8 Yesterday, this was not even there. What changed Continue Reading

WiFi Found

I’m here at Coffee and Cream at Lakeside OH (no, not at a Methodist conference…the East Ohio Conference is here this week)….for you non-UM folks, Lakeside is a UM founded place, and so some UM conferences hold their annual meetings here)…..but, the most “blessed” thing here (in my world, is Wifi connectivity, and only 10 or so minutes from our Continue Reading

Adobe Acquires Macromedia

Wow! Adobe to acquire Macromedia – Dreamweaver MX and UltraDev Zone – DMXzone.COM We have found some very important news directly from the official Adobe website! Just read this: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.

I’ll have to try this (Build my own Blog)

Macromedia article I just found sound like a good way to try some PHP stuff, and play with a blog tool at the same time. (I may not get to it until after Christmas, however) Macromedia – Developer Center : Building a Blog with Dreamweaver, PHP, and MySQL – Part 1: Creating the Basic Application Building a Blog with Dreamweaver, Continue Reading

The failure of support in a mass-PC market

The previous post leaves me with a disgust toward the state of “PC-Support” today by the major manufacturers. The “solution” of running a completely unnecessary wipe clean and start over is overkill and just plain wrong, since it ignores the fact that most don’t want or need to re-configure everything from scratch again, in the absence of “config backup and Continue Reading

HP screws knowledgable Computer Customers

More on the aforementioned HP (and other computer manufacturer’s) resorting to ELCHEAPO customer support. It came about as a attempted to install the 64-bit XP on the HP Pavilion a530n, which sports an AMD Athlon 64 processor. I am uploading this article in pieces since I just wrote about 5 opr 6 paragraphs that evaporated as MT-Blacklist (which was running Continue Reading

Athlon 64 3200+ is 1600Mhz FSB?

In Compusa’s Ad today, they advertise that the a530n (HP model with an Athlon 64 3200+ processor, the box I have been about decided to return, as having a 1600Mhz Front Side Bus. Is this real, or are they playing with the numbers in some deceitful or unconventional way? I also wonder if, seeing that it comes with 512mb pc2700, Continue Reading