Mike’s Thoughts

So… I use Gmail as a catch-all account for all of my email and I use the web interface because Outlook doesn’t handle the IMAP so well. I also use Gmail Redesigned, which gives the web interface a cool face lift.  To complete my web ensemble, I use AdBlock Plus to keep my web experience focused on what I am working on and not the ads.

So I logged into my Gmail account a few minutes ago, and what do I find in the message page, but a bar full of ads. My natural instinct is to zap the div container with Ad Block, so I do. This confuses me, as this is the first time I have ever seen them since I initially zapped them after installing AdBlock. I laugh to myself over my victory and proceed to continue reading my messages. As I open the next message, I am shocked to find another column of ads plaguing my window. So again I adblock the area. For good measure, I reopen the message. Ads. Again!

It seems as if Gmail is randomly naming the div container to prevent AdBlock from blacklisting the ad’s container. This is a low blow, and while genius from a company and coding standpoint, is beyond irritating for me as a user. I will keep trying to de-crap the experience as best as possible, but this is really going to irritate me. Keep it up Google and you just might lose another user.

The day has come. The new mikebruckner.com is here. Although everything is not completely up and running, the main page is up, along with my schedule and all of the links, so you will know what to look forward to. With this new site, I’m shifting focus to the website itself, with will include computing technologies, cooking, and photography. I should have the the meat of these sections up in the next few days, and will then be adding content as normal.

Oh, and one more thing. In moving to a new server (and actually having blog.mikebruckner.com be blog.mikebruckner.com ) WordPress did not migrate the old users from my old server, so if you are a registered user, you will need to re register for this site. Sorry for the inconvenience!