There’s an old saying,
The answer, when found, will be simple.
That was true for me today. I was feeling great because both Google and my security company gave my site a clean bill of health. But there was still a minor problem — the video on the Amtrak Bedroom post wasn’t showing in Firefox. I had to activate Adobe Flash.
Huh? Why this message all of a sudden? Whatever. I looked at my flash player settings on my computer and didn’t see anything that would help, so I checked the post using Safari — the video worked. I found a number of suggestions on the internet, but nothing helped. The settings in Firefox looked fine.
I was scratching my head when I remembered I had previously noticed the little Adobe icon on the left of the address bar — it only appears when there is a video in the post. So I clicked on it.
I clicked the “Allow and Remember” button and that solved the problem:
Who would have guessed? It turns out clicking on the blank video would have gotten me the drop down menu too. How I was supposed to know that is another question. Life is seldom simple, even though individual answers sometimes are.
Have you ever had an experience like that?
Well no, I’ve not had such an experience. LOLOL 😀 😀 😀
I think I could apply this to a simpler problem, but it’s too early in the day to activate my brain.
Yes, any time we’re in a new situation things seem complicated, and parts of it are much more simple than they seem. The nice thing about experience is we can learn to stand back and break the problem/situation down into manageable parts.
Every time something goes wonky my son and heir and the resident geek tells me to solve it myself and I do have some aha moments too. The next time it happens, I shall blog about that.
Tom, my husband, the resident geek tries to get me to solve my own problems but it takes time & patience. With more time I m i g h t have more patience.
Please do write about it, Rummuser. The aha moments make it all worthwhile, don’t you think? Also to know that you’re not pestering a loved one for something you can do yourself.
Well there you go, the lesson is use those mouse buttons!
But then again, I’m afraid of a whole lot of the keyboard things, because I don’t actually know what half, no 3/4 of them are supposed to…as long as I can open the webpage and see what I need, I’m more than happy…
Last week, I had to do something at the bank which involved me typing in stuff – now the bank has a different keyboard with a whole of row of buttons above our F1-12 and I keep striking them with my wonky fingers, with body at wrong angle stuff…
Anyway back to your question posed…
I have a lot of very nice paper/magazines that should be able to on-sold but the interest isn’t there, tried over and over again. But I don’t want to just give away or send for recycling. So I was browsing the Net and found a delightful way to make a free standing “tree” – which I did but it didn’t look right, maybe it was the paper – too stiff.
Whilst I was supposed to be resting last week, I looked at it on the floor and suddenly thought “why not do xyz” – based on some other HB books I did last year. I now have a dandy little “sculpture” that is freestanding or can be hang on a wall…and it has the potential to go a lot further!
I also hope this week to see how junk post-catalogues might go. A different weight of paper but still I’m sure I can achieve something…
Maybe after Uni finishes, I will post some pictures on my blog along with the story…
The trouble with clicking to see what happens is you might wind up in a mess that will take a long time to resolve. I think you’re wise to focus on things that are more fun for you. I enjoy reading about them.
More than I care to remember when dealing with online technology.
Yes, it happens all too often! I’m going to comment on your latest post, but I’ve moved the relevant posts and will have to find them.