I never got around to calling support about co-op over Live! not working with Assualt Heroes, so I don’t know what would’ve come of that. I tried to play online today to see if this has been solved, but unfortunately no games I could join were found and no-one joined the ones I created.

The only news about it I’ve found is a post a Sierra employee made in their forum addressing this issue. Apparently they’ve known all along that the Live! support is broken. Shouldn’t customers be informed of this somehow? Preferably before they pay..

I’m sorry to say that a fix for this problem is still in the works, but we have been aware of this problem since day one. As far an official response to this issue, I’ve just posted it, although I’m afraid it won’t help alleviate any frustration that the community has.

I’ve had some trouble accessing http://support.microsoft.com lately and thought it had to do with me using Firefox, since it worked just fine when using Internet Explorer.  I got an uninformative ASP.NET runtime error.

Server Error in ‘/’ Application.

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Runtime Error

But after reading this thread at channel9 I cleared all cookies from the microsoft.com domain and now I can access http://support.microsoft.com again.

I think I’m going to switch from FeedDemon/Newsgator to Google Reader. I’ve been trying it now for about a week and even if there are some bugs the experience has been pretty good. It feels responsive and fits the way I read feeds. Not sure if it’s any better than FeedDemon/Newsgator, but so far I haven’t found it to be any worse either.

Some things that would make Google Reader even better.

• Streamline folder and tag concepts. It’s just too confusing right now.
• Make it possible to rename folders and tags.
• Add an option to only show new items for a folder/tag/feed since I last read it.
• Filter and group items that are about the same topic, like Google News and Gmail.
• Feed recommendations based on what I read.

I have a few months left on my current Newsgator subscription and right now it looks like I wont be renewing it. But maybe some killer feature will be added in the next FeedDemon release that will change that. Who knows?

You’d think someone would at least test the ads that go out all Live Messenger users. Usually I don’t mind the ads in Live Messenger since they’re usually very unobtrusive, and I’ve never seen anything remotely interesting being advertised. But getting a script error dialog every time I restore Live Messenger is beyond annoying.

That was pretty quick. Version 1.6.1 of uTorrent has been released with a fix for the malformed .torrent exploit. So now we can all feel save while pirating sharing again.

Found a neat applet for making sure that I have the latest and most secure versions of my software created by Secunia. It’s called the Secunia Software Inspector and when I ran it on my computer I found that both my Java JRE and Adobe Flash were out of date. Keeping up with security fixes is a pain.

Also, the latest version of uTorrent apparently has a vulnerability [secunia.com]. I wonder why this isn’t made really obvious on uTorrent’s homepage?

And I’ve changed the look of my site. Found a neat theme for wordpress. I’ve also added plugins for flickr and last.fm. Lots of fun

Wonder if I ever will manage to write anything more often than once every one or two months..

I recently spent some time catching up with my favourite tv shows. That we only have 24h days sucks.

Stargate SG-1 is still a lot of fun to watch, and lately I’ve felt it’s actually gotten a lot better. Who would’ve thought that could happen on the 10th season of a show. Unfortunately the spin-off Atlantis hasn’t really improved. The only thing that keeps me watching is McKay. A similar situation to the holodoc in Star Trek Voyager.

Battelstar Galactica though is slipping. It’s still somewhat fun to watch, great characters and environments, but they really need to tighten things up a bit story wise. It’s starting to go the same way as Lost, a series I completely lost interest in somewhere in the second season. A confusing mess with no apparent sense of direction or plan. Hopefully there is a plan, and all the confusion will start to make sense soon.

I’ve also watched a few episodes of Smallville and I really like the JLA direction it’s heading in at the moment.

Raymond Chen recently linked to an old post about a death threat he’s received. One should probably not laugh at death threats, but this one is just too funny. Hopefully I’m not the only one who’s missed it.

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