Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
…if you’re reading this.
Blogger friend Phil brought it to our attention that Internet Explorer is crashing when the front page to House of Eratosthenes is being loaded. Adding to the concern, for us, is that Cassy Fiano’s page, where we’re guest-blogging this week, also wouldn’t load in IE. And other blogs do.
Hmmmmmmm….
Well, the first thing we did was save an off-line copy of the front page, and then go in with a text editor and hack away at the HTML code line by line, until enough code was missing that the problem would stop happening. And this narrowed it down to the sidebar, specifically, the Sitemeter widget. The problem was confirmed when I loaded up yet another blog, one in which I don’t have these blogging responsibilities, and it crashed IE just as reliably — also through the Sitemeter widget.
I found three entries in the Sitemeter support/announcements blog that might relate to this…
Visit or Page View Counter Display, July 31: For those of you who currently use the SiteMeter Icon that displays the total visitors to your site we wanted to let you know about some forthcoming changes to this feature…
Scheduled Outage August 3, 2008 (SM1, S17, S21, S26, S36, S37, S38, S39, S40, S41, S46 and S47), July 29th: Greetings, Our hosting provider has scheduled an outage on August 3, 2008 from 12:01 AM – 05:00 AM to consolidate their network into a single autonomous system. The following servers will be affected…
Sitemeter Icons Vanishing, July 17th: For the next 30 – 45 days we will be testing our servers and databases in preparation for the launch of our new SiteMeter platform…
There. Now you know everything I know.
Unless you’re using IE, in which case you’re not reading this.
Cross-posted, out of necessity, at Cassy’s to help reduce confusion for us all.
Update 8/2/08: Here’s your reading material. Thanks to Gerard for letting us know this morning it was starting to pop up.
Wired: Web Sites Using SiteMeter Are Crashing with Internet Explorer
The Inquisitr: Site Meter causing Internet Explorer failure
Mashable: Attention Sitemeter Users: Your Site is Down
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Real men don’t use IE and haven’t for decades. Joke ’em if they can’t take a fuck.
- vanderleun | 08/01/2008 @ 23:16Whoops, hope you’re feeling strongly about that, it seems your site (www.americandigest.org) is on the boobie-list too.
- mkfreeberg | 08/01/2008 @ 23:20We don’t care. We’re not working the site. Not really.
- vanderleun | 08/01/2008 @ 23:45But thanks for telling me. I just ripped the code right out.
- vanderleun | 08/01/2008 @ 23:47And it worked. Interesting…
- mkfreeberg | 08/02/2008 @ 00:15Dumping site meter is the key. All across blogland they are discovering it.
- vanderleun | 08/02/2008 @ 00:25So, does Bill Gates hate site meter or does site meter hate Bill Gates? Maybe both?
- BroKen | 08/02/2008 @ 10:06Interestingly enough, I hit you three times yesterday, Morgan… the first two times using Firefox, and the third using IE7. I HAD to bring IE to the party, as Firefox keeps puking on videos, for some unknown reason. And IE worked just fine yesterday morning. SM probably hadn’t gone live with their “new and improved” (heh) code at that point…
- Buck | 08/02/2008 @ 17:07