Today when checking my mails on my GMail account, I noticed that the font was different, various things (like the star next to the “starred” folder) were out of place, and most importantly, I wasn’t able to open any mails. I quickly noticed that it probably was a Greasemonkey issue, so I started disabling various scripts (like the “Butler script” for the Google search engine, or the “Delete button” script for GMail…which by the way can all be found here.). Well, all to no avail, so I disabled Greasemonkey completely. Then of course it worked. That was strange, because I’d been using Greasemonkey for a while now, and it never posed a problem. So I did a bit of searching, and noticed that the subdomain for GMail isn’t gmail.google.com anymore, but when logged in, it’s “mail.google.com”. Which is probably why all that havoc was wreaked. After changing all references in the respective scripts to “mail” instead of “gmail” everything worked fine again.
Now, this may not be much of a deal, but I really wonder why Google has decided to suddenly remove every reference to “gmail” when logged in. Are there still any pending lawsuits to be fought out? Is it possible we GMail users will soon be “Google Mail” users?
When I assembled those pictures for yesterday’s Plaza post, I forgot to include that one picture below. Actually, I didn’t forget, I rather omitted it on purpose, so I’d have another post-worthy subject. Now, don’t laugh, because it’s still me who decides what is post-worthy and what not. So SHUT UP, will you? No, I’m just kidding. Keep laughing.
Here’s the picture (It’s actually possible to click that picture so you can look at an even larger version…I’m such an attentive person):
Since I’ve become such an incessant picture-taker (I’d rather not use the word photographer, since any real photographer would seriously frown upon that), I’m always looking for some interesting motifs, and alas, that one is. I mean, how many damn paper-boxes can you put up before it looks silly? Well, exactly one. Try to spread out people. The Midwest is such a huge, vast area, why the hell would you want to cram together your paper-boxes like that? When I was over there I noticed churches which had parking-lots twice the size of Austria. So there’s enough space for any car ever built in the United States to park for worship on Sunday morning, but there’s not enough space for paper-boxes to be put up in a reasonable manner? And if you think I’m being unreasonable here, think again. Because I’m not.
I had been to the Plaza in Kansas City eight years ago, but back then, I didn’t feel inclined to take any pictures with my little Advantix camera. When I returned to that place during my visit, I realized how many strange little statues, fountains, busts and whatnot are scattered between all those shops. So I took a few pictures. Go here if you are interested in the history of the oldest shopping center in the US. The Plaza does sport all kinds of interesting shops, and I even noticed one Swarovski shop, which, as you all know, is Austrian (apart from that, I can’t relate to them at all…I just wanted to instill some kind of patriotism). Click on the picture to see the gallery.
My plane from Vienna to Washington was supposed to take off at 10:30. Boarding was scheduled to be around 9:30, so everyone was in there at 9:15. At 9:45, they announced over the intercom that boarding had to be delayed, due to a defective toilet. Well, I don’t know what the problem was with the toilet, but it took them over an hour to fix it. People were surprisingly quiet through the whole delay, although about 30% weren’t able to sit anywhere…not even the floor. I took the picture below at about 10:30, the time we were supposed to be taking off:
In case you are one of the persons depicted above, and you mind being displayed as an example of decent waiting behaviour, drop me a note.
Well, yesterday I went to see Nine Inch Nails at the Arena here in Vienna, and it was everything and more I had expected it to be. Reznor and his crew (who strangely enough all seemed to have the same haircut) were highly energetic, even resulting in the guitar player trashing his guitar at the end of the show. Ah, Rock’n Roll. Oh, and the drummer was a madman. I’m sure they had lots of stuff done by the drum machine, but it was enough to see what the guy was doing to be utterly impressed.
The setlist was nicely rounded, with I think only two songs from the newest album, and the fact that they started it off with “The Wretched” would have instantly turned me into a fan, if I hadn’t been one already. There was no encore, but they performed for almost two hours straight, and I heard that the last two songs were actually the songs they usually played as encore. Below are a few pictures for your enjoyment:
The crowd in anticipation of what’s to come.
Performing. Unfortunately, my camera doesn’t handle flashing lights, raving musicians and heads in front of it too well. Thus, blurry.
And performing again. This time a bit more focused, but the heads kept interfering.
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