If you want people to actually fill out your web form to request information, please provide one that is working right. Most people filling out a web form for information aren't going to make a phone call to finish it.
It may be called "Private Browsing" or "Incognito" or, more colloquially, porn mode. But, there is a perfectly useful reason to use it: multiple accounts with the same service.
For instance, you can start a new Incognito session with Chrome, login to a different GMail accounts, and then close the session without ever worrying about your primary tabs getting confused with Reader, Calendar, GMail, etc.
This works because the cookies and session information isn't kept. On Chrome, though, it is shared with all incognito tabs that are running at once until they are closed. This means you can only do one additional session at a time (in addition to your primary one). But, it's often faster than opening a new browser.
Firefox just presented me with this dialog box on Mac OS. I assume I have to answer "No" - otherwise who knows what I'm agreeing to. The question is probably, "Have you blogged lately?" That's obviously a no. Hah. Update: The "No" button wasn't functional. I had to press "Yes" -- no idea what I've said yes to. Erg.
Apologies to the paraskavedekatriaphobians and triskaidekaphobians. It's been just 4 weeks and here we are again. This time, though, I've got a vacation coming up and the first draft of our book is in. Good times.
Do you have paraskavedekatriaphobia? Or maybe just triskaidekaphobia? Either way, if you do, today probably isn't a good day for you. Some people I know think of Friday the 13th days as lucky days, though. They're odd.
But why is it normally considered a bad luck day? Apparently, one of the earliest written references was from 1869. That doesn't date back very far. However, Friday may have been seen as unlucky since the 14th century and The Canterbury Tales. The term "Black Friday" has been associated with stock market crashes and disasters since the 1800s. Apparently, on October 13th, 1307, the Knights Templar, a very wealthy and powerful group formed to protected pilgrims during the Crusades, were mass arrested. It was, naturally, a Friday the 13th.
Combined with fear of the number 13, one can see how it might be viewed as an unlucky day. It's interesting, then, that the popularity of the phrase, "Friday the 13th," may barely date back century.
I was perusing the map off the coast of Rhode Island just now when I came across a small, neat looking island. It has a couple of large lakes, each around a thousand feet across and one with what appears to be it's own island and about 15 or so other lakes and a lot of nice looking beach.. When zooming in, no streets, towns, or other items of interest came in to view. Intrigued, considering the proximity to Martha's Vineyard, I turned on the Wikipedia layer and learned about it!
Well, after having record high weather on Sunday, we’ve now definitively had record low temperature last night. Our own thermometers showed a low of 9F, but the weather page shows a record low of 7F for this time of year. With a forecast of 9F and a previous low of 16F for this day in the past, that’s pretty crazy.
For the record, it’s pretty chilly out regardless of what the numbers say. We still haven’t turned the furnace on, but our wood stove is certainly getting more use. :)
More Record Cold Weather Coming
Tonight is forecast to be just as cold – which would set another record. Additionally, the night before last was also a record. The previous record lows for this time of year were set in 1996.
(To be fair, these aren’t “all-time” lows or highs, they are merely “this date in history” lows and the site disclaims that they aren’t “official” numbers. There are no official numbers for some areas, though, so this is as good as it gets.)
Cold Enough To Make Snow
Cold weather isn’t all bad. In fact, chopping wood yesterday was pleasant as I didn’t overheat and I didn’t have to worry about bugs. The temperature never went above freezing.
Cranmore is now making snow and they have a projected opening date. December 6th! We ordered our season passes last week and are anxiously awaiting ski season.
Making Snow?
Although many ski areas on the west coast also make snow, especially for the lower lifts, I hadn’t realized how much it was relied on for the snow season here. Apparently, many of the areas can open limited runs with just manmade snow. That seems a bit odd, but whatever works.
Yesterday was a cool day. The temperature was probably in the high 40s or low 50s. Then the sun went down. So, naturally, the temperature rose. We saw it hit 63F, but at the local measurement place it hit 64F, a record high for this time in November. The temperature stayed high through most of the night. This set the high for today as 64F, as well, even though most of the day the temperature has been dropping. Our reading shows 44F for mid-afternoon – about 6 degrees cooler than it was in mid-morning. And it’s been sunny.
Crazy!
Out here, I’ve not seen such dramatic examples of warm and cold fronts affecting the temperatures so quickly that the time of day and the sun level have less effect on the temperature than the front. It’s pretty neat!
The average temperature for this time of year is a high of 42 and a low of 24. The record was set yesterday for a high of 64 (it also hit 64 two years ago today, so no record for today) and a low of 3F in 1996.
It’s supposed to drop to 14F on Thursday. If we see that temperature, that will be 3 degrees lower than the record low set in 1997 of 17F. The low forecast for Friday is also a degree lower than the record, also set two years ago when a high was set in the same week.
Double Crazy!
That means there is a possibility of a record low and a record high in the same week. Which also appears to have happened two years ago, during this same week.
I thought this sort of stuff wasn’t supposed to happen on the precious Mac OS X?
To be fair, it stopped happening after a few more launches of the settings tool. It also required a full screen capture because the partial screen selection tool caused it to redraw correctly. It was quite annoying, though, as it wouldn’t redraw correctly at all while using it.
Curious, though, as it’s the sort of thing I’ve seen on all OSs at one time or another. Perhaps everyone is using the same scroll algorithm?
If you want people to actually fill out your web form to request information, please provide one that is working right. Most people filling out a web form for information aren't going to make a phone call to finish it.
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Firefox just presented me with this dialog box on Mac OS. I assume I have to answer "No" - otherwise who knows what I'm agreeing to. The question is probably, "Have you blogged lately?" That's obviously a no. Hah. Update: The "No" button wasn't functional. I had to press "Yes" -- no idea what I've said yes to. Erg.
Apologies to the paraskavedekatriaphobians and triskaidekaphobians. It's been just 4 weeks and here we are again. This time, though, I've got a vacation coming up and the first draft of our book is in. Good times.
Do you have paraskavedekatriaphobia? Or maybe just triskaidekaphobia? Either way, if you do, today probably isn't a good day for you. Some people I know think of Friday the 13th days as lucky days, though. They're odd.
I was perusing the map off the coast of Rhode Island just now when I came across a small, neat looking island. It has a couple of large lakes, each around a thousand feet across and one with what appears to be it's own island and about 15 or so other lakes and a lot of nice looking beach.. When zooming in, no streets, towns, or other items of interest came in to view. Intrigued, considering the proximity to Martha's Vineyard, I turned on the Wikipedia layer and learned about it!
Google recently introduced themes to Gmail. I didn’t like the new default on, so I went looking to change mine. I found that they had a Terminal one.
Well, after having record high weather on Sunday, we’ve now definitively had record low temperature last night. Our own thermometers showed a low of 9F, but the weather page shows a record low of 7F for this time of year. With a forecast of 9F and a previous low of 16F for this day in the past, that’s pretty crazy.
Yesterday was a cool day. The temperature was probably in the high 40s or low 50s. Then the sun went down. So, naturally, the temperature rose. We saw it hit 63F, but at the local measurement place it hit 64F, a record high for this time in November. The temperature stayed high through most of the night. This set the high for today as 64F, as well, even though most of the day the temperature has been dropping. Our reading shows 44F for mid-afternoon – about 6 degrees cooler than it was in mid-morning. And it’s been sunny.
I thought this sort of stuff wasn’t supposed to happen on the precious Mac OS X? 