Posts Tagged ‘examiner.com’

The bug giving some Bleeding Neon followers using Internet Explorer problems the last few days (as mentioned in detail yesterday) has been isolated: It was, indeed, the RSS feed of Examiner.com stories I added to the right sidebar last week.

Problem is, it only appears to affect certain people, and not all users of IE 6 or 7. (Warning: Mild geek speak ahead.) When I tried the site on IE 6 running on Windows XP Pro yesterday, I got the error message. But when my friend Mike tried on IE 6 on XP, he had no problems. And when I tried it in IE 7 on the same build of XP in Parallels on my iMac, it was fine as well.

So I removed the widget and tested the site on IE 6 on XP Pro again, and sure enough, it’s working fine now. My dilemma now is this: Do I cater to the maybe five percent of users out there who may experience issues accessing Bleeding Neon, or do I re-add the widget displaying my latest Examiner.com stories to drive traffic to that site from the other 95 percent of visitors?

Or do I just say “F it” and put up an animated gif of a dancing baby? DECISIONS.

If you’re reading this, it probably means you’re smart enough to be using Firefox or Opera or Safari or Chrome or just about any web browser that isn’t Microsoft’s clunky Internet Explorer (or you’re using an RSS reader, even smarter!). Apparently, something in the right column of this site is causing IE (both 6 and 7) to go nuts and “abort” loading Bleeding Neon. I think I pinpointed the issue (the new widget I added last week to feed my Examiner.com stories), but I won’t be able to fix it until later, so for now, please enjoy this soothing message while we work out the kinks.

And if you’re using IE … GET A REAL BROWSER ALREADY.

This message NOT brought to you by Microsoft.

So in the midst of everything else I have going on, I decided to add just one more little thing to my plate, and if you either a) like art, b) live in Las Vegas or c) even better, both “a” and “b,” then this news is for you: I’ve recently joined Examiner.com as the Las Vegas Fine Arts Examiner. What does that mean?

Not sure, actually. But I think it means I’m writing about art in Vegas.

So far, I’ve written three stories in the last three days, and haven’t even done my pre-First Friday round-up yet, so for anyone who STILL thinks there is a dearth of arts culture in Sin City, I have only this to say: THPPPPT.

If you want to keep up on what’s new and upcoming in the world of fine (and, let’s be honest, not so fine) art in this unholy desert outpost we call home, please subscribe to my Examiner.com RSS feed. Or you can go old school and bookmark that nonsense.