ethan non sequitur

If you happen to work on MySpace blogs either personally (my seriously needing some attention personal page) or professionally (myspace marketing for clients), you have probably found some serious user issues with the blog editor (not that I would mean to imply that there is anything haphazard, unplanned or completely ineffective about the development of myspace and its tools).

If you are one of the enlightened now surfing in Firefox and, even better, on a Mac (or three), you are no doubt receiving the “Blog advanced editor can’t run on your current browser/OS. Hit ‘OK’ to change to plain text blog editor.” Without dealing with the fact that this sentence sounds like it was written by one of AOL’s outsourced customer service reps, I simply say “NO.” Tragic that a billion dollar company can’t be bothered to develop cross-platform/browser software (or simply integrate the open source FCKeditor or TinyMCE editors), but it is easy enough to fix. A great tool for Firefox is the User Agent Switcher. This tells websites that you are using, say, “Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP)” instead of your beloved Firefox 2 on a Mac. Once installed and selected, Myspace now presents me with their “advanced editor” that appears to work just fine in Firefox Mac. Maybe it’s a conspiracy. Maybe they (*gasp*) don’t like Macs. In any case, happy advanced MySpace blogging.

I chopped up the Obama’08 graphic into a new buddy icon for my meebo. A couple of people said they wanted it, so here you go…

btw, if you don’t use meebo yet, you should check it out.  It lets you use all of your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger,  Google Talk, Jabber and ICQ instant message accounts all in one web interface from anywhere.  I travel a lot and people geographically prefer one provider over another and I don’t want 4 apps open just to see who is on.

UPDATE:  I have a new application on Facebook to support the Barack Obama Campaign.

Tags: Barack Obama, Obama, Politics, Democrats

As someone who wants to continue to progress in self-actualization and the potential of who (and what) I was created to be, I found the following article to be very insightful, especially as I have found myself surrounded by some incredibly noxious individuals over the past several years. While I continue to recover and escape from the influence of negative/destructive/noxious personalities, I also remain vigilant for those traits to surface in new acquaintances or within myself.

How about you? What are your noxious people struggles? (Continued)