All Aboard
Finally made it on board to see the Iwo Jima.
Looking For the Bottom
Couldn’t play with the Navy in their puddle at Fleet Week so I’ll have to go find my own puddle.
Anchors Not Aweigh
Above is the wonderful and lively view of people flocking to celebrate New York Fleet Week 2011. So exciting, can’t wait to see the Iwo Jima!
Below we have a picture of what awaited me at the entrance, which unfortunately wasn’t as close as I got to getting on board. The end of the line to get to this dude was still 200 people back! Yikes.
Leisure by W. H. Davies
WHAT is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?—No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
Pop up Windows Not Displaying in Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7
Came across a strange problem at work today. A Windows 7 32bit workstation that was recently upgraded to to IE 9 started exhibiting some strange behavior. All of the pop up window links (on any website) no longer worked. Clicking on a link that should open a popup window did nothing and displayed no error message. Other browsers were unaffected and correctly displayed pop up windows. Everything was functioning correctly for about two weeks after the upgrade so it didn’t appear to be a failed upgrade. Unfortunately by the time the problem was discovered it wasn’t possible to roll back to a system state before IE 9.
By enabling the Internet Explorer Developer Tools option (F12) I was able to see a No Such Interface Supported (NSIS) JavaScript error when I clicked on a pop up link. Googling around revealed similar problems with prior versions of IE but nothing specific to IE 9. Several suggestions to run the command “regsvr32 actxprxy.dll” didn’t work.
The problem was finally resolved by running the IE repair tool from Internet Explorer FAQ. The tool is a command script to re-register a long list of common controls that Internet Explorer depends on. After downloading and running the correct script (Right click, run as administrator) the problem was immediately resolved.
Hope this helps someone looking for an explanation why pop up windows in Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 may have stopped working.