Friday, June 26, 2015

Why This is The Best Blog You Could Possibly Read

There's no question of the premise of the title, it merely needs affirmation every so often.  Therefore, This is the Best Blog You Could Possibly Read because ...

1)  This blog rarely has lists of things

2)  We hate slideshows as much as you hate them ... except we really don't hate anything ... except slideshows

3)  We already know MacKeeper is a worthless piece of crap and will never throw pop-ups at you

4)  We don't want your money ... well ... not all of it but some of it would be ok.  More money than that and we would have to be responsible in how we behave with it and that won't happen.

5)  We don't sell your information to anyone ... but that doesn't help much when Google will do it anyway

6)  We don't track you and, frankly, we don't even know how one would ... but ... we also don't know why one would (i.e. if you're not here then obviously you're wasting time reading something else and it would waste our time to discover how you waste your time ... unless you waste it here)

7)  Our principal (i.e. only) author frequently screws himself up in painful ways and these can be amusing to watch

8)  We never link to sucky sites for money.  There is only one reference on this blog to the site to discover Ten Techniques Arnold Schwarzenegger Used to Enlarge His Penis ... and you just saw that reference.  You will not see another here.

Note:  definition of a 'sucky site' is any Web site which has to pay you to get people to go there.

9)  We never use autoplay for video.  We like to believe the readers are adults even though the principal (i.e. only) author often doesn't act like one.


However ... there is one problem with this otherwise exemplary blog:  YouTube videos do not currently play or even appear for at least one person who uses Firefox to read the blog.

Things We Know:

1)  Current version of Firefox works fine for displaying them on this system but it's Apple and many, shockingly, still use Windows.

2)  Adobe FLASH and my hatred for it have nothing to do with it as the only consequence is I don't use it (i.e. I don't install the plug-in for my browser and that only affects me).

Note:  FLASH is guaranteed to cause frequent WebKit crashes in Safari.  Those stopped altogether after I removed it whereas they had been happening daily when it was still loaded.


Question to You:

1)  Do you use Firefox 38.0.5 which is current highest Firefox level for Mac and, I assume, for Windows but the assumption may not be true.  I do know Kannafoot said he is using the most-current Firefox version for Windows, whatever level number that may be.

If yes, do you have the same problem viewing videos on this blog?

2 comments:

Laughing Gecko said...

This is undoubtably the best blog I follow. Yes, it is the only blog I follow and I have no problem viewing your videos. I'm still using Safari! lol

Unknown said...

When the blog achieves Best Blog status because it's the only one you read, that counts even better! It could be Safari warping your mind as it has mine. Good science demands that possibility be considered. Better science would get Firefox fixed but it looks likely that was broken by FLASH as well but in a different way from what it does to Safari.