Category: Technical Defect

Dependence on the Amazon Echo.

Posted on by John Keegan in Science and Technology, Technical Defect

Early Tuesday morning, somewhere around 1:30, I woke up, being a middle-aged man that’s what I do, and asked my echo what time it was, and to my utter shock and annoyance received no answer. I proceeded to take care of the need for which I woke up, and then try to ascertain the problem with the echo. I went so far as to contact Amazon. My echo died. It had ceased to be. It had gone to meet its maker . It was bereft of life. It has kicked the bucket. Shuffled off its coil, run down the curtain and join the choir invisible. It is an EX Echo.

Having ascertained that my echo was now a very nice door stop, I ordered a new one immediately. Over the last 5 years or so, I have become dependent on the echo. Voice control of Lights, being able to check my math without a calculator, music, audio books, podcast, and radio just by expressing a mere thought is too useful to be without.

I find that all extremely disturbing.

Trouble with Dynamic Web Template

Posted on by John Keegan in Change Log, jgkeegan.com, Technical Defect

Back in July, I changed web design programs from Expression Web to Dreamweaver Creative Cloud. As a result, I had to recode the dynamic web template that I based the majority of my site on. At the end of every year the copyright has to be updated. 2016 has to be changed to 2017. That process should be a simple matter of updating the template, saving the changes, and the program should update the pages that use the template automatically.

I have updated the main template and save the changes, and I thought the program updated the pages that use the template. However, some pages updated and some pages did not, and I have no idea why. This problem is slowing the responsive design update.

Comcast take my money and leave me alone!

Posted on by John Keegan in Comcast, Technical Defect

Not a very pleasant way to start off the new year, I had to deal with Comcast. To avoid paying $82 a month just for Internet, and I had to get a cable TV Internet bundle for $62 a month that includes taxes and fees. Not only do I have to pay for content that I am never going to see, but I have to store a cable box that I am never going to use.

Why can’t Comcast just allow me to pay for the bundle without having a cable box and leave me alone?