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Christina Sng retired after a long and illustrious career as a usability consultant, site producer, information architect, and web developer. Retirement, however, is boring! Join her here on her continuing adventures on the web.

Archive for October, 2008

Is my Nokia N82 Toxic?

Monday, October 20th, 2008

I just had to know. My hand was burning after 30 minutes of surfing and this is pretty common.
So I surfed over to Nokia to check. According to a 2002 Nokia Environmental Report (PDF), a phone is made out of 20% ABS-PC and 4% PC. PC = BPA and BPA messes you up bad, even [...]

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WoW – the Fix

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

After persisting another day, I eliminated the final possibility. I read this forum post about the Hostage of Comodo Firewall Pro and knew this must be it! Firewall conflict – that’s what the nice Blizzard lady Leah wrote and told me. So here’s what I did.
In Vista (yes, still using that confounded thing), under Services, [...]

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WoW Woes

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

It is now day 2 and I have solved the “Tracker not responding” problem. Turns out WoW doesn’t like Comodo Firewall such that even turning it off doesn’t work. When I finally threw in the towel and uninstalled it, the Launcher worked and downloaded the latest patch.
Now when I restarted it, the News page refused [...]

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BEFORE You Subscribe to WoW…

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Make sure you patch the game first.
I did that before signing up for the Burning Crusade free trial but somehow after getting an itch to run through the Barrens again, this time I stupidly went to subscribe via Paypal BEFORE patching.
I’m not worried about a whole day lost patching the game but possibly not being [...]

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Safety First

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Truly, there is no such thing as an absolutely safe place, whether online or in real life. Just as a determined and skilled burglar can break into any residence possible, so can the most protected site be hacked, given enough time and resources. For every secure system out there, there’s a bunch of talented and [...]

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