Comcast’s New Enhanced Security

Comcast added some extra security measures recently that practically blocked us out of our own account. It's a long story, and while I'm sure you'd love hearing me complain about it, I'm just going to skip it.

In any case, I got this sent to my comcast.net email address this morning:

Dear MATTHEW AUAYAN,

Our records show that you recently changed the email password on your account. If you did not authorize this change, please call Comcast at 1-800-COMCAST and we'll be happy to assist in any way we can.

Your security is top priority at Comcast! To learn more, visit our FAQs at www.comcast.com.

Best regards, The Comcast Team\r\n[EventId:60097249:/EventId]

I bet when my Comcast phone service goes out, they diligently call me on my Comcast phone line to notify me of the interruption of service1.

  1. After getting home yesterday, it turns out our modem resets if you try to make any calls or receive any calls. I called in to report it, and scheduled for a tech to come down and replace it. I hung up, thought that was that, until I got a voicemail from Comcast saying they couldn't confirm the appointment, so while being sarcastic in the previous paragraph, I wasn't too far off. Luckily, I had my number changed to my cell phone, but unfortunately I have spotty reception (AT&T *cough*) at the house (hence the Comcast voice service), so it got kicked directly to Google voice, née GrandCentral. 

Seattle jQuery Open Space Hack Attack by Amazon

I went to a jQuery conference on Monday. John Resig gave the keynote and then we 'self organized' into sessions à la Open Space Technology. I know this isn't great, but these are the notes I left with.

I'll try and flesh them out over time.

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Seattle JS Community

Upcoming jQuery Mobile Blog

Current Mobile Browsers

  • Opera 9.5,10
  • IE6,7
  • FireFox 3.5+
  • Safari 2,3,4
  • Blackberry

A-grade Devices

  • iPhone 3gs, 3.x
  • iPad, 3.2
  • Nokia N97 S60VG
  • Palm Pre 1.4
  • HTC Magic
  • Droid

B-grade Devices

  • iPhone 2.x
  • Nokia N96
  • Curve
  • Storm
  • HTC HD2

Notes

Use cache manifests, html storage for cacheing libraries on modern browsers. See also: http://github.com/wycats/jquery-offline

Resources

http://quirksmode.org/mobile/ http://github.com/jquery/jquery-tmpl

Customize Safari 5′s Reader

You can customize the way Reader renders, by editing a single file. You'll need admin access, and a bit of HTML and CSS know how1.

First, do this:

  1. Find Safari.app in your Applications folder
  2. Right click
  3. Click 'Show Package Contents' from the context menu

Then, find this (you'll probably want to save a copy of this in case you want to revert):

  1. In the new Finder window, go to the Resources folder
  2. Find Reader.html
  3. Edit with whatever editor you're comfortable with.

Then, make some changes and save:

You might be asked for your admin password when you save. I set text-align to left because that's how I roll.

Before:

After:

Seriously though, if you don't know what you're doing… please don't even attempt.

  1. [Insert Standard Disclaimer Here] 

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