Well suddenly Yahoo web mail isn't working on Ubuntu 10.04. It looks like it works, until you try to read an individual email. This is what you get:

So here's the list of possible culprits:

• The web browser: Firefox 3.6.6
• The client operating system: Ubuntu 10.04 (or the software update from this week)
• The hypervisor: Oracle VirtualBox 3.2.0
• The host operating system: Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
• The web application: Yahoo! Mail (New Version)
• The web host: Yahoo!

Given that list, I did what anyone would do. I blamed Yahoo and did the easiest thing I could to localize the problem. I switched to Yahoo! Mail classic. Problem solved.

Now I don't in fact know what caused this problem in the first place. While I am curious, I have my email back and that's the most important thing. If I had to guess, I bet this all goes away in a few weeks while I do nothing but wait.

--Jack

Ok, please don't take that too seriously. I have a phone already, it isn't an iPhone, but it does all the phone-like things I need my phone to do - as well as many other fun things too.

I just came across an article about a Best Buy employee, Brian Maupin, who made an animated video about people coming in to (a) store asking to buy an iPhone. Although the video does not mention Best Buy, they suspended Brian for denigrating a product that the store sells. The video is extremely NSFW and contains adult language. It might even offend you but it's hilarious if you can get past the crassness of the humor.

Again, this is NSFW! Close your office door and don't watch this if you work at Best Buy. View at your own risk: youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg**

Now just how badly do you need an iPhone? How 'bout a white one? I hear Walgreens has 'em! If you ask there for one, just tell 'em Jack sent you.

--Jack


** People are already posting copies of this video under their own names. The original was posted by tinywatchproductions