Thunder Gmail - Web Login Required (Failure)

First time I've experienced this after using thunderbird for at least a year. A good search for very helpful and it came up with these two links which is the basis of my post:

1. http://www.ginside.com/2009/2986/gmail-fix-web-login-required-failure/
2.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/11/05/fix-gmail-imap-invalid-credentials-or-web-login-requires-failure-error/

As a reminder for me this is how I fix my problem.
1. Head to https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
2. Successfully unlock my account with that link
3. Login to gmail from web interface and go to Gmail » Settings » Browser Connection > Always use https
3. If using googleapps. it seems this can happen when you do not enable ssl(enforcing ssl for domains) at domain settings-->General - SSL (check enable ssl)

Apparently no option was selected in my case. That is probably the problem. Dunno how it became unselected but these are one of those internet glitches that happen.

Another reason Health Insurance Companies Need to Die

Let me tell you of the story about the HIP Health Plan of New York an emblem health company. It's one HUGE LIE. Supposely they were a non profit from their ads month ago. Guess what; they are turning FOR PROFIT.

Secondly, For this year they jacked up the insurance over 50 dollars compared to last year PER MONTH. So to lock in a cheaper rate for this year I change health insurance companies. I started on the 15th of the month and cancelled on the first of the month paying for a full month. After 3 months of not getting a pro-rated refund which I was assure I was suppose to get. They have finally denied refund because they stated it's a mistake because the plan I was in starts on the first of the month.

How does your mistake make me pay 15 days in advance and continue to bill me for 15 days without refunding those 15 days of service that I OVERPAID. Freaking SOBs. I can't wait for a public option so I can ditch these motherF*#KING insurance companies

uniqlo heattech long john situation

I am a little perturbed by uniqlo. I like the brand and fits me very well in general. Anyway on the 30th I went in to look for the heattech long johns cause it was bitter cold and I really can't wear pants cause the cold winds will just freeze my legs without layering. Imagine my surprise when I can't find it after circling the whole 2nd floor TWICE. I finally gave in and ask an worker bee there and they told me there was a few SMALL heattech long johns(2 in fact) only to see one guy holding both the last two in hand near I was circling a while back.

I go through the trouble and email uniqlo to see what the inventory situation is since the guy in the store wasn't that helpful. I received a response monday 2/1/2010 that none will arrive till next fall/winter. Bummer but what can you do right and I am definately not a small.

I went in TODAY and they have like ALOT of SMALL olive waffle heattech long johns. However there was ONE medium which I snatched and just bought.. Before I went on line I went to a lady in the back to ask again. Is there any other sizes of Long Johns in the back or somewhere. Of course she says... all you see is what we have (well obviously that's not true since some guy told me otherwise just 5 days ago.)

I left really annoyed. I do try to check every week for sales and the thing is... on more than one occasion they will have like no medium sizes of their sale items except like S,L and than suddenly 2 weeks later; the same item, medium size shows up. Wonder what uniqlo's strategy is?

drupal amazon_store error

warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, '' was given in /www/public/includes/form.inc on line 372.

warning: array_shift() [function.array-shift]: The argument should be an array in /www/public/sites/all/modules/amazon_store/amazon_store.module on line 1602.

Seems to be cached. Disabling cache fixed this but apparently the cart is cached for anonymous users so anything you add goes to an empty cart. Gave up on this as a patch for this did not fix my issue in addition to the fact it requires some theming.

P.S
warning: Missing argument 1 for _system_themes_access()

was the effect of upgrading the amazon_store to 2.x-dev without running cron afterwards.

This Emotional Life

watch this show. It gives a nice wide lense onto alot of similar pbs shows on inspiration, mental health, etc.

http://www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife/

I might buy the pbs but the few keys I am getting into is

1) Start meditating again but work this into excercise schedule.
2) Happiness has a greater occurance in people with social circles. Whether religion, fellowship, support groups. Increase and make the network substantial.
3) Happiness is contagious. Be more happy with my friends.

Some useful link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/pbs-this-emotional-life

Republican Scott Brown WINS!

Great. Finally the pathetic senate health care bill will not be passed by the cowardly President Obama. Yes it is self defeating to have a party against real universal health care be elected. However it's better than some quasi party trying to fake a horrible senate version of the health care plan that our children will pay for. We already have a war our children will pay for.

This only gives me hope that Obama will not be elected. We need real advocates and real change we can count on. Clinton looks so good at this time it's absurd.

Actually I just realized that you do not need 60 votes to pass legislation. Why the hell did I allow the network television to change how the senate works to move legislation. This is freaking ridiculous. Just pass the house health care bill with 51 votes and it's done. I am definately not voting for a democratic senator(you hear me Schumer) of New York that continues this charade.

so weird. This morning I got an email that 205.203.134.197 made 57 connections to my server. An ip whois shows it originates from DOWJONES.COM. I think the financial markets are in trouble!!

President Obama - Change we cannot count on

I am watching channel 13 on pbs and for me to have him actually say the senate version is 9/10 of what he wanted all along... This is the worst president for change. This is just like bush but less effective and more lies. Give me a President Howard Dean anytime. Thank you.

Fujitsu u810 windows 7 rc to rtm

I updated my evaluation copy (release candidate) also known as beta to a retail version of windows 7 ultimate yesterday on my fujitsu u810 and it was a nightmware. It took exceptionally long because I have no room on my drive. I basically followed the tip at http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3075/how-to-upgrade-the-windows-7-rc-to-rtm/ which after removing alot of space on my fujitsu with 768swap successfully ugpraded to retail in about.... over 4 hours.

However my perfectly working evaluation copy of windows 7 turned out to a fairly broken u810. First thing I noticed was my mouse button was moving in opposite directions. I move it right it actually goes left.

I got a weird fingerprint message about deleting credentials to use the device only to delete the fingerprint record and find out i cannot add a fingerprint because it says it requires a application to use.

My rotation is broken button is definately broken.

So I finally decided it shouldn't be difficult to just remove the fujitsu drivers and fix it that way. No luck. Now my pen doesn't really work. Rotation is not working. The led light for keyboard definately does not work. Fingerprint is not working because now I need an application which windows was handling it in the evaluation copy. Yes I tried compatibilty mode for the vista software even though it detects it as windows xp.

Well I hope this helps someone. I imaged the evaluation so I'm going go back and restore everything. From there I'm just going to have to stick it out for 6 months and hopefully fujitsu comes out with window 7 drivers.

Windows Update Problem - 403 - Forbidden

I received this error after a successful windows update a few days ago and checked today to get:

403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.

Here's what I did which did not solve the problem:
-Deleted the windowsupdate folder
-reregistered windows update components here - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/956708
-Used windowsfix here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058
-kinda did this before I realized it was for windows 95 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/245142

Here's how I finally fixed it:
I checked my windows update log file at : c:\windows\WindowsUpdate.log
noticed this line near the end:
FATAL: Update required for C:\WINDOWS\system32\wuweb.dll: target version = 7.2.6001.788, required version = 7.4.7600.226

internet searched wuweb.dll and found this solution at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914226

it fixed my problem but my system didn't have iuctl.dll file and I skipped part 1 because i don't have automatic updates enabled. I did have to use the unlocker program on the file wuweb.dll to change it to wuweb.old however because it was locked but that and changing the file Iuengine.dll was the solution. I was able to revist windowsupdate.microsoft.com again and there was an active x notice which I installed and now showing updates again. Unfortunately the title of that solution applied to "Windows Update has encountered an error and cannot display the requested page" would be a difficult one to fine. Hope this post helps someone.

ps. This might also work: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949104 which is to reinstall the windows update agent again cause the update corrupted it.

red t-shirt transferred color from sweat to shirt

It was a really nice shirt too. One which I wear to the office. You believe that sh$t?! The red t-shirt basically transferred color because of my sweat?! This is the first time I experienced this and now I got reddish streaks on my armpit area of the shirt. I am soaking it now but it's still red. UNBELIEVABLE.

Running Nose with alot of Mucus

For the last 3 days my nose just won't stop with the mucus. It's ridiculous and quite sick. it's actually still running right now. I'll just using the internet or on my desk and a slightly thicker than water run down to my mouth... The annoying thing is if I'm bundled up and outside it's not as bad however if I'm at the office it comes down every hour or so or even less after I blow the sucker all out of my nasal passage. I did some nasal irrigation which I thought helped but I don't know. The only fortunate thing is I'm not coughing up a storm which is infrequent at best but the nasal mucus is another freaking story. ARRRGGGHHHH

Fame - the tv series

It's funny how the mind works. As the fame movie is opening soon I can't for the life of me remember one single episode of fame - the tv series. I would be around 8-9 years old? Just feeling a bit sad and not nostalgic cause I can't remember anything about the show...

phpmyadmin attack

another reason why you should not extract files that retain the default structure. here's a list of addresses for phpmyadmin someone tried to access unsuccessfully

/mysqladmin//setup/config.php?type=post HTTP/1.1
/phpMyAdmin2//setup/config.php?type=post HTTP/1.1
/phpmyadmin2//setup/config.php?type=post HTTP/1.1
/myadmin//setup/config.php?type=post HTTP/1.1
/MyAdmin//setup/config.php?type=post HTTP/1.1
/myAdmin//setup/config.php?type=post HTTP/1.1
/phpAdmin//setup/config.php?type=post HTTP/1.1
/phpadmin//setup/config.php?type=post HTTP/1.1
/mysql//setup/config.php?type=post HTTP/1.1
/pma//setup/config.php?type=post HTTP/1.1
/phpmyadmin//setup/config.php?type=post HTTP/1.1
/phpMyAdmin//setup/config.php?type=post HTTP/1.1

I particularly like this agent used:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.01 [en]

Thanks for the visit. 217.145.96.131

the acorn attack

I am a little confused with the whole acorn scandal. Not that what a few office workers have done was wrong but what's with the whole federal funding thing and sustained conservative attack on the organization; is so effective it seems. Seriously does the government shut down when their employees are corrupt? I mean we all know we have corrupt members in our government.

Obviously all this controversy is clear evidence there is a conservative bias more than there is such a thing as liberal bias. I feel sorry for the poor. They cannot catch a break and they even criticize the few organization that would support them for a better standard of life. Oh well.

I just tried to enter publisher clearing house sweepstakes

and major FAIL. If you are reading this... the pch.com or publisher's clearing house online entry is a complete joke. Maybe I was entering with the wrong browser but I do not think so. I went through dozens of screens by skipping the offers only to return back in the progress screen. Than the entry seemed to disappear by redirecting me to some other website like for surveys and stuff (WHERE IS MY ENTRY?). So after doing all of backs and going further back into the history I gave up because it never verified my entry. It was a very confusing experience. No big loss since the end date is in february 2012. That is Over 2 years!!! to wait to know if you won. At least it caused me to make a very hateful blog post about it.

Hand Tally Counters

I know there are more things going on than to just post about hand tally counters but I've been seeing it in the train and it's sort of freaking me out. The first time it was when I saw a very petite caucasian with very light blue eyes who's muslim speaking to another person on the subway while she frequently press down on a mechanical hand tally counter. It has annoyed me but than I noticed another time when an asian was using a digital hand tally while on the subway. An internet search shows that religious individuals use this to count prayers... but I don't see any praying going on... So confused. Anyone know another reason?

Officelive basic domain renewal no longer free

I hate that I seem to be in the dark about the change in officelive basic. I was able to snag a domain when officelive offered domain registrations free with their service. I guess with the economic climate as it is; they would cancel the domain renewals which they had already done for new officelive basic customers for over a year? (they have stated at that time they will honor free renewals for older customers). I am just disappointed. I was lucky enough to check on my office live account and saw the clear message about domain renewals no longer free but if I didn't...

Sad thing is I would have known if I use my microsoft email account registered for the domain but since that's not my primary account (I now see they sent the mail out 08/04/2009 but two months doesn't seem like enough time). Since checking today and it giving me a 2 week time period to transfer; I did it on my lunch break. It was quite confusing. The registry key they gave didn't actually do anything at the transfering registar. The registry key is specific to http://www.melbourneit.com.au/cc/godirect/. Then there is the odd process where they change the registry key after having to register with their site. You would think; that was the key to use to transfer the domain after unlocking it.

No it was actually the show password section of the domain which reviews an "authinfo" password to use. Alot of multiple steps and I still have to wait for the email to accept transfering the domain. oh well. You can't get much things free nowadays...

Been a very gloomy day especially since it's september 11... everyone seems very solemn.

An enjoyable walk

I enjoyed my walk today. First thing first. I saw a ferengi. More specifically Grand Freaking Negas Zek played by Wallace Shawn. I actually internet searched the guys name because I'm not that much of a star trek geek... I am sure wallac shawn didn't appreciate being recognized on the streets for this one part even though I've seen him in plenty of other sitcoms... It was at 6th avenue and 9th street (toward 10th street). On spotting, I muttered Holy cow; I dunno why. I headed to broadway.

As I was at balthazar restaurant by spring street... I noticed half a block from like 56 crosby toward 40 crosby (the parking garage) a long tent was setup and at the end near the parking lot there was a ramp for a camera being setup. There was also a bunch of young punkish? models? in black clothing coming out of a black van (a band?). Very mysterious but unfortunately I didn't get to figure it out though it seemed like the biggest thing going on in the neighborhood today.

Shucks... without pictures I feel like this was a worthless post... I am still saving for the nokia n900. That's going to be my phone/organizer. I cannot freaking wait.

Peace Lilly Hydroton Failure Number 4

Pictured above is my last attempt to convert a peace lily from soil to hydroton. This is the 4th failure to date(and last) but I am still not sure what the problem is. The problem seems to be that the smaller pot versions(the ones with alot smaller leaves and white flowers) have really thin roots unlike the larger leaf peace lily varieties (which had no problem because the roots are bigger?). Anyway what worked with the larger peace lilies didn't work with the 1st attempt. The second and third attempt was in the basement which incurred a great deal of rot even though it was in a well drained pot.
The last attempt was to try again but with better ventilation. The problem might have been I was a bit too agressive in removing the soil the root was holding on to. The really thin roots didn't seem to have much problems in the bowl for the first few hours because it was stiff and lively but after an hour it limped and remained limped till what you see there. I think it's because there wasn't enough hydroton all around the thin roots and so with too much empty space it dried up but very little rot this time.

I did kept a few outside leaves which is still alive in another type of water soil. It's weird because there wasn't much roots in them and they recover so well so I guess the roots do like alot of moisture. I'll post a picture for you to see the idea. It's been in the pot for 2 months now so it should survive. Maybe this will help someone with some problem with the smaller leaf (peace lilies).

I probably won't buy another of the small peace lilies again but if I did I'll probably leave the soil alone but when I repot each year; snip a few of the edge shoots even without roots and it should grow fine if the above is repeatable.