If you move your mouse up to the top of your screen in Chrome, does a black bar come down to obscure the tabs? Is it super, dooper annoying? Yeah, it is. The problem is that you are using Chrome in “Windows 8 mode”. There is no good reason to...
Continue reading...Good and Evil are for Fairy Tales: We Need to Grow Up
J.K. Rowling is awesome and I agree with her rebuke of Rupert Murdoch. However, I don’t agree that the world is divided into “good” and “evil” the way this article suggests (“we fail to recognize the evil behind the attacks for what it is: pure evil”). Good and evil are...
Continue reading...How to Add a YouTube Username in Google Apps for Education Accounts
I set up a YouTube account for teachers to use, but I was not able to upload a video until I set the username. However I couldn’t set the username at all. The interface would not work. I would enter my chosen username and click on “continue” and nothing would...
Continue reading...How To Respond to Climate Change Deniers
Climate change denial is a politically-motivated opinion. It is basically the same as “science denial”. I try not to get into fights with people about stuff like this because it is awfully frustrating, but sometimes I can’t help myself. Here is how I responded to a conversation on Facebook that...
Continue reading...Can’t Play YouTube Videos through Facebook Links on Android Phone
My Android (HTC J One) suddenly stopped playing videos when I clicked on Facebook links that went directly to a video. I could play videos from links to websites, but not from links to videos. Here is how I fixed this problem. I closed the Facebook app and opened the...
Continue reading...What if 20 Million Illegal Aliens Vacated America?
This article is not based on anything resembling fact, so it cannot be used to form an opinion about illegal immigrants. It was written by someone (or probably a combination of people over the years) with a strong bias against immigration in general, legal or otherwise. It tries to incite...
Continue reading...How to Get Rid of the “Something Went Wrong” Problem with Links in Facebook on your Phone
My cellphone (Android, HTC J-One) started giving me the following error every time I tried to follow a link to an external site from the official Facebook app. Something went wrong Sorry but there was a problem with this link [insert link here] You can now continue to this website...
Continue reading...Square Your Dance
I have recently started learning how to be a square dance caller. The learning curve is very steep as there are so many factors to keep in mind at once. I decided to make a website to store resources that will help me improve my craft. I called it “Square...
Continue reading...Wrong Way
I don’t like the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Hobby Lobby. I don’t like the fact that Japan’s prime minister has not learned anything from history about the dangers of a heavily militarized Japan. And I don’t like the idea of a caliphate being created in Syria and Iraq. Am...
Continue reading...Why is Google Chrome Using Up So Much Memory?
I have a Windows 7 laptop and recently the fan has started to run loudly whenever I open Chrome. This made me think that Chrome was using up too much memory. I was able to narrow it down to Chrome because it happens even if there is nothing else open....
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