Sometimes life is frustrating

[muck_a_luck]

Not horribly so. But frustratingly so. You know. Did all the stuff I had to do and now it is 10:40 and I'm too tired to do anything I really want to do. Sleep time.

You know those little pop up site preview thingies that have started cropping up around. Which, by the way, I just read I should be trying to incorporate into my website marketing strategy (no fucking way).

Does anybody find those things to be good or useful in any way? Or do you all do what I do and frantically diable them ASAP everytime STUPID Norton cleanup nukes your cookies so that all your customizations have to be redone. *beats Norton with a stick*

Comments

[xylohypha.livejournal.com]

Hi--here via friendsfriends...

I hate the blasted preview thingies. Did you ever see the post by spacecowb0y here (http://spacecowb0y.livejournal.com/281574.html) wherein he or she gives directions on how to block them? I gave it a shot and don't see many of them any more--even after dumping my cookies. I use Firefox; I haven't tried the directions for getting rid of them from/for other browsers.

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

[rsharpe.livejournal.com]

Have you ever used McAfee? After having all kinds of problems with Norton, I switched to McAfee. I hated those things too, got rid of them, and they haven't reappeared.

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

I think my problems are less with the software than with the Husband. Norton has a status icon that you can opt to put on the Start bar. It has a yellow exclamation point if Norton thinks you need to do somethint for your computer, and a green check mark if everything is OK. Wellllll... If you disable the function that destroyes your cookies, Norton has a conniption fit and puts up the exclamation point. Husband can't stand that. I have tried to persuade him just to dump the stupid "everything's OK" alarm, but he insists. So. He lets Norton run the cookie destroyer and then everything has to be fixed. Posisbly McAfee would be useful just because it probably doesn't have the damned pushy status indicator...