The other day, regular commenter zzyzx asked
There’s this sign, and it’s not on the Moon, in fact it’s on the lower right hand side of my screen, and I only see it when I come here to IMAO. It say’s, in a very ominous manner…close and accept. Close and accept what? Very ominous indeed.
Let me tell you about that little notice. It’s a pain in the butt.
Let me tell you a little more about it. WordPress — that’s the platform this blog runs on — is really big on all these new cookie and privacy things that different countries insist on doing. Now, we’re U.S.-based, and really don’t care what other countries think, but since WordPress really kinda wants you to play nice with others, and since they don’t charge for using their software, we’re playing nice with WordPress by playing nice with those foreigners.
That notice is something that WordPress made available that meets all those silly requirements. And, well, sometimes it doesn’t work right. For instance, when I’m on the Safari browser, it always shows. Using Chrome, though, it doesn’t show for 180 days, which is how it’s supposed to work. I don’t know why it doesn’t work right in Safari. I don’t know if it’s Apple’s fault or WordPress’s fault.
Tell you what I did do that might help out. If you get the message, you don’t have to click the “Close and Accept” thing. Just scroll the page.
You’re welcome.
Now, it’s your turn. What’s on your mind? Got something to share? Something you’d like to talk about? It’s Monday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
“regular commenter zzyzx . . . ”
I thought he was decaf?
He could be Folger Crystals.
I’m as regular as the mail.
Signs are everywhere!
Of course you know I was just kidding about that sign. In fact I believe there now is a similar sign on the Moon. I’m sure it’s no longer the last sign on the Moon, however I’ve been out on the road most of today and haven’t had a chance to check. I was out on the road today because just like most of the lower 48 we have been having a heat wave. It was 78 in the part of the Anchorage burrow that I live in, and the wife and I took a ride out to the Matanuska Valley. I had to turn on my truck’s air conditioner, it was terrible, I mean 78 degrees!?!. Also please disregard those snide remarks from Oppo and walruskkkch as those two are just mere pretenders to the title of….Last Poster on the Moon. Which of course is mine by divine right.
I banish you to the wilderness! Oh wait, you are already there. Never mind. And now….. TO THE MOON!
I think the civil war is coming. Better pick a side…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=189&v=O9g1uuI62m0
The revolution is comming, better pick a side. Is this Germany in the 1920’s?? Nope it’s modern day Portland OR…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9g1uuI62m0
Dave Barry, who’s almost as funny as walruskkkch, was born July 3, 1947, in Armonk, New York, which is also where IBM is headquartered and borders Connecticut.
Is that funny (ha-ha) or funny (peculiar)?
As William Wordsworth once wrote:
O Cuckoo, shall I call thee bird,
Or but a wandering voice?
State the alternative preferred,
and reasons for the choice.
(Well, Wordsworth wrote the first two lines.)
Well, summer is here and the local Nashville “weather people” are reporting the “feels like temp” first and through out the forecast. The actual temps are given as an afterthought. It’s about the only time I yell at the TV.
If you’re not yelling at the TV, you’re wrong.
I don’t have a television to yell at, so I yell at my iPod.
Sony is planning a new interactive TV that when you yell at it the TV yells back. Viewers can switch from either the Conservative, liberal or Centrist responses. While available the manufacturer advises not to choose the Social Justice response. You were warned. [the liberal response is the watered down version of the full Socialist SJ response but may still cause lasting damage as well.]
AS to whose fault it is, Safari or WordPress, I’d guess wordpress. Apple has been really big on strictly adhering to the latest HTML standards. WordPress is probably doing something non-standard that Chrome (and others) play nice with, and Apple doesn’t.