Posts Tagged ‘wtf’

Odd iPhone Behavior

Friday, February 6th, 2009

I decided that I’d take this weekend off from my 2nd job. While I’ll miss the money, it isn’t something I do often and I needed a break. Today I decided I’d take the wife out for lunch. Everything was good, we ate, I dropped her back off at work, and headed home. While stopped at a light, I was going to check a few things online… With 4 bars, I opened up Safari and got an error I had seen before, “Safari is not connected to the server.” I had seen this error a few times before, and restarting my iPhone always solved the issue. So, upon restart, I was surprised to see my iPhone telling me I needed to connect it to iTunes to activate it. What the heck??

Connect to iTunes to Activate

I’ll admit, this kind of ticked me off. What the heck was going on. Well, guess I have to go home now and reactivate my phone. This sucks. As I get closer to home, I decide that I’ll restart my phone again. It shuts down, I turn it on, and everything is working just fine.

I really have no idea what was going on. My only guess is when I restarted the phone the first time, it didn’t have a good enough signal to communicate with the AT&T network.

Oh, and for those wondering why it says “Para Emergencia”. When the iPhone is not active, it still allows users to make an emergency call. The text there in the slider will change between a dozen or so different languages. It just happened to be the language displayed when I took the screen shot.

GMail’s 10×10 Pixel Problem

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Do you use Google’s GMail service? I do, and love it. However a few weeks ago a “dot” appeared in the top left corner of the page. I didn’t think much about it at the time, as it looked like they were trying to make it look like a folded corner. As the days went on, I started to find the 10×10 pixel spot annoying. I constantly find my focus shifting to it.

On the 4th, someone posted a picture of the problematic pixels to Flickr, which in turn made it to Digg. Apparently there are many other people who find the spot annoying, and have their own theory as to what it is. Something to track page load speeds, tracking your activity, or as I though just a failed styling attempt. A number of people have also posted to Google Groups about it.

Even TechCrunch via TechCrunchIT is trying to figure out what this is. They’re even offering a free Tee-shirt (whoopie) to whoever comes up with the best, most entertaining, or most accurate theory.

300 And Transformers – Worst Films Of 2007 According To CNN

Monday, December 31st, 2007

As popular news sites are commenting on their best and worst of 2007, CNN has posted their own list of the worst movies for 2007. A list which I’m sure many, many people will disagree with. This is what Tom Charity had to say in his article about the worst movies:

“300″
Frankly, it was a tossup for the third spot between this gung-ho Greek meatfest and Michael Bay’s overblown toy commercial, “Transformers.” A lot of people got off on both, I realize, and the computer-generated work was impressive in its way. But no matter how you spin it, war porn is war porn — and we’d better off without it.

A tossup for 3rd spot (worst movie list) was between 300 and Transformers? WTF? Both of these movies were amazing. Story, action, special effects. I don’t see how either one of those titles could be anywhere near the worst for 2007. Matter of fact, don’t take my word for it, here are what some others had to say: (more…)