Category: Thoughts and Rants

Firefox 66.0.4 Should Provide A Final Fix To The Addon Problem

In a last effort for me to milk the Firefox add-on issue from over this weekend, and to at least let people who may find the page know what’s up, Firefox release 66.0.4 was made available yesterday and contains in its release notes: “Repaired certificate chain to re-enable web extensions that had been disable” The […]

A Fix Has Been Released For Last Night’s Firefox Addon Issue

Last night was a pretty big mess for Firefox users (like myself) as the add-on functionality of the browser was, effectively, completely broken, due to an issue involving a security certificate expiring, rendering every add-on for the browser invalid. To put it really simply, a while back Mozilla began validating add-ons themselves, giving them a […]

Apple II Forever – The Event, And The Song

35 years ago today, in 1984, Apple held an event, appropriately named “Apple II Forever” where they launched the then new Apple IIc, a portable version of the incredibly successful Apple II computer. The event itself was designed to show Apple’s continued commitment to the Apple II computer line in spite of the Macintosh having […]

Notre-Dame de Paris: Damaged, But Not Destroyed

Along with history, another subject I’m quite fond of is architecture, and one particular class of building design that captivates me is the “Medieval Gothic” style, predominantly French Gothic architecture, and no building in the world best demonstrates this than Notre-Dame de Paris. The beauty of the building is absolutely indescribable, and it’s been something […]

Yes, Your Old MySpace Account Still Exists, Emo Pictures And All

Remember MySpace? The social network that was dominant before Facebook? They made news last month due to (somehow) losing all the music ever uploaded to the site from 2003 to 2015, apparently during a routine server migration. Yep, all that data just gone, no proper backups, no real recovery or redundancy plan, no nothing. Yeah, […]