tinyMCE Javascript Error In IE

All was fine in firefox, but when pulled up in IE 6 & 7, would error with a nifty message. Of course IE's error message doesn't help ("expected identifier string or number") at all, but eventually found the cause.

Turns out, IE can't handle an extra comma in the config section.

 

            tinyMCE.init({
                mode : "textareas",
                theme : "advanced",
                theme_advanced_toolbar_location : "top",
            });

 

See the comma at the end of the last line? It's the culprit. Remove it.

 

            tinyMCE.init({
                mode : "textareas",
                theme : "advanced",
                theme_advanced_toolbar_location : "top"

            });

 All is well again.

Google Fails #4

Wow, these keep finding me.

This time I wasn't logged in while changed a couple search settings. I turned off safe search and upped the number of results to 50 per page. Clicked save preferences, then clicked ok to the 'preferences have been saved' dialog, and got a 403:

 

Google Errors Self

Appearantly google thinks it's own automated requests are from malware.

 

To top it off, my preferences were not actually saved. Guess I'll log in now.

Google Fails #3

If I didn't know any better, I'd say I sat around all day looking for every time Google drops the ball. I don't. They find me.

The latest installment of the google fails collection I seem to have going is actually a biggie. See for yourself. This is what I saw when signing into my adsense account.

 

https://google.com/adsense

 

Cute, huh?

Digging further into the details, I find it had expired. 

 

Details of the fail

 

Twelve days ago. Eek. You'd think someone at google would have a reminder in their calendar for something of this magnatude.

Unless, of course, I just accepted a fraudulent certificate and gave some domain hijackers my adsense login. In which case my face is red.

Thoughts On GTA 4

No usual praises for it here, though I will admit it lived up to the hype.

I noticed a few details in the game that I wanted to point out.

  • Get Niko drunk and hail a cab. He yells out, "YELLOW CAR!".
  • Vehicle music heard from outside the vehicle is exactly the song and position within the song that you'll hear if you hop in it.
  • Camera pans around during the in game cut scenes. It stops and fluidly becomes the in game camera.
  • In game cut scene actor movement/actions are timed up with the audio.

These are beautiful examples of the detailed polish work that Rockstar puts into the GTA series, which is more or less what I've always known it for. Hiring hookers, shooting cops, running down pedestrians and living a life of crime aside, of course.

I also noticed what seemed to be a smudge in all this polish.

When you die in a mission and get released from the hospital, you'll shortly get a message on your cell phone asking if you want to retry. This is a great feature, however I think they could've entirely too easily polished it up. Instead of having a message saying 'Retry [Mission Name]', they could've done a phone call from the character that had you run the mission in the first place, saying something along the lines of "get your sorry ass back out there", you know, depending on the character. Who knows, maybe they couldn't do that due to any missions you'd run for yourself. Can't really call yourself, though you usually do have a partner.

Familiar Numbers

Am I the only one that sees something interesting in several hundred spreadsheets containing nothing but a bunch of (at least one of which with over 58,000 itself) nine digit numbers?

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&hs=Nd9&q=site%3Aold.telecom.cz+filetype%3Axls&btnG=Search

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