My Internet journey

Bumped into this error while invoking a webcal link (and staying on the same page). Apparently clicking the link starts a sequence that eventually fires onbeforeload, which in its turn causes the error.

Reports of this bug first popped in search near the end of February January and probably related to a recent chrome build (Chrome Version : 4.0.249.89, Official Build 38071). After letting the issue for few days, I did some extra searching today and came up with a tweet by @rvdavid:Held up by a “Too much time spent in unload handler.” error on #chromium. in trying to find solutions, All I find “unconfirmed” #bug reports. Replying to the tweet led me to a possible solution by the Chrome team. As far as I understand we may see the solution already merged into one of the next official releases. Will update.

Just got this by mail:

Dear Google Apps admin,

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.

In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.

Thank you for your continued support!

Sincerely,

The Google Apps team

I really hope this makes a difference and the IE6 abundance by a giant will eventually lead to the disappearance of this archaic and web-holding-back browser.

Just aired, Log-On’s job recruitment blog, didn’t know blogger is customizable at all… :)
http://b.log-on.com

I’m a heavy user of XMarks as I use 3 different browsers, each one for it’s purpose (IE for testing at work when we are developing for mainly IE, FF for general dev and Chrome for fast Internet :)).

XMarks has now entered the alpha stage for the Chrome plug-in. I tested it on Chrome 4.0.206.1 and it works great so far.

As you probably read earlier, Google made payment to my closed bank account and for sometime there was no hope for me as I thought my money was lost forever…

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that my account was re-credited with the payment. So, there is hope for all the guys waiting for their money after all. Goodluck!

At first I thought the money is lost, especially after reading this…

Just finished a phone call with my old bank, the bank-lady told me that they manage a “problems” account, holding all the rejected payments of closed accounts reason. It’s too late now so she can’t tell if my money is there and what is the procedure to get it but she did tell me that if I call 2morrow morning, they might help me. I’ll update when I get a better answer. I’m optimistic. :)

**update** Talked to my bank and according to what they say, the payment had been returned to citibank… I’ll wait a few days and hope it reappears in my adsense account.

some more on the issue from adsense support forums.

After closing the market-like site where I sold my goods, we took off to a short vacation in Greece and started my first year in the University studying Biotechnology. As my high-school final exams included only low math and no physics or chemistry, I decided to establish a web based forum (managed by myself, of course) in which I’ll find people to help me with my studies. The establishment day was the day we started school and I presented the address in-front of everybody, success was immediate.

Since my local hosting service was terrible and expensive, I started to look for a substitute and found Dreamhost.com a convenient and cheap enough host. I paid 90$ for two years using a coupon I found online and in the same breath added some adsense ads to my forum. 4 months later I got the first check for 100$. So far, just a little over one year later, I was paid 200$ and 50$ are already earned for my next payment.

 It’s pretty easy to make a little cash from Students forums. Everybody wants to learn and the Internet is a great place to find links to questions and tests. It’s important to precipitate in the forum and be active (provide links and learning material such as scans), none of it will work if you wont.

Revenue so far: ~250$
Secret of success: Timing, active precipitation.