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Computers and I in general just aren’t getting along so well this week.  I think I need to take a break from having to passively troubleshoot just about every application I use on a regular basis.  Troubleshooting is so ingrained in my standard thought process that it doesn’t typically bother me, but when too much starts building up I start having suicidal thoughts of flattening my drive and laying down a nice tame install of Windows 2000.

A small list of what has me seething: 
Disclaimer:  May not actually be related to beta software.

* Microsoft Exchange
* Firefox randomly deciding to clear all my stored usernames and passwords
* Websites without contact information
* Vista’s finely tuned ability to activate a new window right when I’m typing/clicking somewhere else
* My obsessive-compulsive perspective on managing RSS feeds
* Sprint Connection Manager’s recent preference for 1xRTT
* Paragraph tags
* Trillian Astra

For the past I dunno how long, I’ve been pissed as all hell that wikipedia pages have been completely unreadable on my Treo / Centro.  I was getting by for a while by stopping the page before it fully loaded, but having to remember to do that every time was getting tedious.  Turns out there’s some Blazer settings that work around the issue quite nicely for me.  Open Blazer and go to Preferences > Options > General.  Select Fast mode and make sure Don’t download CSS is checked and Don’t download images is unchecked.  This disables all images loaded from CSS (which I probably don’t care about on my phone anyway) but still shows all other image content.  Faster page load times are a bonus.

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