Monthly Archives: August 2007

WYSIWYG Editors are the Bane of My Existance

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I had to make a slight tweak to a page on a site with a content-management system today. After spending a few minutes unraveling the code, I found out that a simple list of three links was using the following markup, which has clearly been screwed up by the WYSIWYG editor on the site.

<p>
  <span class="TextBold">
    NEXT STEPS:
    <br>
    <br>
  </span>
  <span class="TextPlain">
    <span class="TextPlain">
      <span class="TextPlain">
        <span class="TextPlain">
          <span class="TextPlain">
            <span class="TextPlain">
              <span class="TextPlain">
                <span class="TextPlain">
                  <span class="TextPlain">
                    <span class="TextPlain">
                      <img alt=""
                      src="/media/icon-arrow-sm.gif"
                      border="0">
                      <a href="ContactUs.aspx">Contact
                      Us</a> today!
                    </span>
                  </span>
                </span>
              </span>
            </span>
            <br>
            <br>
          </span>
        </span>
        <span class="TextPlain">
          <span class="TextPlain">
            <span class="TextPlain">
              <img alt=""
              src="/media/icon-arrow-sm.gif"
              border="0">
              Evaluate your
            </span>
          </span>
        </span>
        <span class="TextPlain">
          SEM campaigns with our
          <a href="analytics.aspx">Campaign Management and
          Analytics solutions</a>.
        </span>
        <br>
        <br>
      </span>
      <span class="TextPlain">
        <span class="TextPlain">
          <span class="TextPlain">
            <img alt="" src="/media/icon-arrow-sm.gif"
            border="0">
            Expand your marketing
          </span>
        </span>
      </span>
      <span class="TextPlain">
        efforts with
        <a href="marketing.aspx">Direct E-mail Marketing</a>.
        <br>
      </span>
    </span>
  </span>
</p>

AFK

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Annie and I are spending the week at the lovely Running Y Ranch in Klamath Falls this week for our yearly anniversary trip with Urn & Kat and Dave & Rose. I’ll be too busy seeing Crater Lake for the first time to make any posts, but when I get back I should have plenty of photos. See you in a week!

Update: And we’re back! I’ll be uploading photos and writing a post in the next day or two.

Xbox 360 Repairs – Part Three

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My 360 came home yesterday. Inside the package was the console, a 1-month Xbox Live Gold membership card, and a letter explaining that to accelerate my repair, they had sent me a different console. I forget the exact wording now, but I think it’s refurbished, not new. As an apology, the letter explained they had included the membership card, which I’ll probably end up giving to one of my brothers once Halo 3 comes out. I plugged everything in, and reconnected my hard drive, and it seems to be working fine.

I read online that some people have problems with downloadable content they already purchased not working, and I haven’t really had a chance to test that yet. I did notice that the new tileset I downloaded for Catan wasn’t working. I’m assuming that I’ll have to re-download some stuff, but I won’t have to pay for it again.

Update: I did a little digging based on Urn’s comment, and found the following:

To clarify for people who still don’t seem to understand, when you pay for and download a game for the first time, it’s keyed to the console ID. This means the console can play it in full mode forever, OR it will run in full mode under your ID on other consoles. When you replace your 360 due to upgrade or failure, you’re no longer using the system your download was keyed to, so you get treated as a legitimate user on someone else’s system – but only if you’re signed in to Live so it can verify that.
– from a discussion thread on Kotaku

That’s super lame, but Urn says they’re working on a fix, so hopefully it’ll get better at some point.

The good news is that since it was under warranty, the repair was entirely free, including the shipping. I know people are upset about the fact that 360s are failing in the first place, but I think it’s just unrealistic to expect a new product to work flawlessly. My 360 lasted for nearly a year, and when it broke Microsoft fixed it for free. That’s a better deal than I ever got from Apple when my laptop’s motherboard died – twice.