PRIVATE BROWSING AND ..

Something happened last week that changed the way I browse the interweb.. I had the video player malfunction or some odd thing, at any rate here's what happened ..  I think either I was trying to look at too many pages or something to that effect or the program updated.. Something happened to cause this, the player when I am on certain video sites (not all for whatever the reason) will now show a dialog box stating to either allow or deny this page wants to download 100kb of whatever to my computer.. I press the deny button and have to do so several times before the dialog box disappears.. I say it doesn't show on every video and am not sure why.. But I Googled this and it appears that now not only do sites put cookies on your computer but also other information is downloaded to the computer as a way of showing that you visit the site.. As if the cookie wasn't enough.. So I tried something I've never tried before, I changed the browser to "private browsing" mode.. What this does is erase all evidence of your visit.. The one drawback is where you go to  a site and it is automatically filled in (login info) for regular browsing, in private those fields are blank.. Hope you can remember all your passwords.  But the best part is that while Firefox remembers the login info once you click the link to do so.. What is the advantage of private browsing??  Well so far that dialog box I was talking about earlier doesn't show in private browsing.. That is one plus but the drawback is some of the ease things don't work.. Posting to Twitter with the sharaholic link doesn't work although it does work to post to Facebook..  There are other advantages to private browsing..  Using the "private browsing" on Firefox reminds me of Safari a little in that you have to sign in to every site when you do this.. Unlike Safari you get full use of flash video, something Safari doesn't or didn't have..


Baby shower on Saturday cramping my football watching::  Well it would be if I cared that much.. Truth is I welcome the change.. While the baby shower starts at two in the afternoon and the NU game starts shortly before I would have watched if I wouldn't have to take mom down for this, but.. The team will win or lose without me watching and more than likely will lose.. Hate to be a downer but this team needs to retool.. Somewhere along the way they stopped being formidable to teams everywhere and now are just another team looking to play as close to New Years day as possible.. They may not even be rated again this year.. I figure two more loses easily.. Michigan and their junior version Michigan State can beat us.. Northwestern this Saturday might beat us as well...  That leaves the previously unbeaten Minnesota and Penn state and Iowa as the three pin your hopes on it victory games which will be tough. PSU is a road game (we suck on the road this year).. So could we be looking at a consecutive losing streak this year?   Could happen..

Badge Henry