Jeremy Visser

It doesn’t come as much as a surprise, but I’ve discovered a method of crashing the Windows Media Player 11 Beta.

Basically, you clear the Now Playing list and click the Now Playing tab and get a crash. It’s that simple.

Here’s some instructions with screenshots I compiled. It’s a easy as 1-2-3:

1

First, in the Library, play some music then click the Stop button. Then click the Now Playing folder thing in the left pane.

2

Select one of the items in the list, press CTRL-A to select them all, right-click and select “Remove from list”. This has the effect of clearing the list.

3

Select the Now Playing tab from the top of the window. Voil�! You should get a crash dialog.

The trouble with this closed-source software is that there’s no easy way to let them know about the problem. Hopefully, Microsoft will go Googling (or MSN Search’ing) and find this post.

I’m so excited, I’ve just got to post about this now.

While I was doing Community Identity for my OTEN, and I looked up Woolooware in Wikipedia. When I clicked the Google Maps link to see where it was, I clicked the street map view accidentally because up until I checked just now there was no street map view for any part of Australia. I was moving my mouse toward the Back button in my browser when I got a street map view!

Excited, I dragged the map over to where I live (not in Sydney), where it had a full street map view! I couldn’t get any searching or directions to work, but I expect they’re working on that.

This mapping has probably happened mainly because of the new opening of the Google office in Sydney.

Man, there’s a lot of buzz about the latest apparent WordPress security hole, so why not join the buzz myself?

I’ve turned off user registration on my blog, so I’m supposedly secure now. I guess I should stop being lazy and chmod 750 all my WordPress files, but when I copy stuff over with SMB the permissions get razed anyway.

Is the <em> tag appropriate all the time? I noticed among valid XHTML writers it’s trendy to always use the semantically-correct <em> tag, but what about when you’re not doing it for semantic reasons and purely formatting? Could this justify using the <i> tag? Maybe CSS classes would be correct, but if it’s just a one-off thing, is it worth it?

You know what? Out of the 17 or so websited with a PageRank of 10, only one validates when run through W3C’s markup validator. (That one is of course www.w3.org)

Does anyone really are about valid markup? Or are they too busy rolling about in the money made out of their prime position in search results?