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Michelle

2007-11-23, 3:29 am

When I surf onto some people's My Space pages, something on these
pages freaks out Windows Explorer and causes it to shut down. So far
all of these pages have belonged to musicians. Any idea what's going
on? Anything I can do to keep it from happening?

Thanks!
Michelle

Mark Goodge

2007-11-23, 3:29 am

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:32:22 -0800 (PST), Michelle put finger to
keyboard and typed:

>When I surf onto some people's My Space pages, something on these
>pages freaks out Windows Explorer and causes it to shut down. So far
>all of these pages have belonged to musicians. Any idea what's going
>on?

MySpace is crap, and encourages people with no design skills at all to
try and create web pages. That's what's going on.

> Anything I can do to keep it from happening?

Use Firefox and disable scripting. Or just avoid MySpace. If there's
anything on MySpace that you can't get anywhere else, that's almost
always because it simply isn't worth putting anywhere else.

Mark
--
Blog: http://Mark.Goodge.co.uk Photos: http://www.goodge.co.uk
"I don't care if Monday's blue"

Michelle

2007-11-23, 6:19 pm

On Nov 22, 11:46 pm, Mark Goodge <use...@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk>
wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:32:22 -0800 (PST), Michelle put finger to
> keyboard and typed:
>
>
> MySpace is crap, and encourages people with no design skills at all to
> try and create web pages. That's what's going on.

Can't disagree there. ;-)

>
>
> Use Firefox and disable scripting. Or just avoid MySpace. If there's
> anything on MySpace that you can't get anywhere else, that's almost
> always because it simply isn't worth putting anywhere else.

I tend to agree with you, and really find My Space to be cumbersome.
The unfortunate truth is the My Space is a great networking system for
new musicians to make contact with other musicians, so I really can't
avoid it. Got to use all available means to get the word out about
the new album. However, he will soon have his own personal page too--
that ought to help things.

I'll keep Firefox in mind though.

Thanks!
Michelle
>
> Mark
> --
> Blog:http://Mark.Goodge.co.uk Photos:http://www.goodge.co.uk
> "I don't care if Monday's blue"