My Wife Thanks You All!

My wife wanted to say thanks to everyone who left comments on yesterday’s posting. She really appreciates all the prayers and kind thoughts you expressed. Many thanks from both of us!

At Home Taking Care of My Wife

I usually don’t post personal items here, sticking to tech- and work-related topics, but here goes: for a little over a month now I’ve been at home full-time. I’ve taken a leave of absence from work to care for my wife, who is currently battling terminal cancer. So far she’s not in a lot of pain, and other than severe fatigue she is doing pretty well – all things considered. Her spirits are great and she’s quite comfortable with the possibility of her imminent death.

If you would care to pray for her, I would be greatly appreciate it. Her name is Barbara. I have been praying for her healing and that she be granted strength and courage. So far the strength and courage part of my prayer has definitley been granted!

Thanks!

Bookmarklet Syncing Bug?

There is a definite bug in the bookmark syncing process between Safari, iTunes, and the iPod touch, at least when running this process on a PC. It doesn’t seem to be affecting everyone, but if you’ll take the trouble to visit other blogs dealing with bookmarklets you’ll run into comments from people who are unable to get synced bookmarklets to work. You’ll even find comments from people who have noticed that the javascript code is being modified by the syncing process to the point where the result is unexecutable. For example, the “{” character is being changed into an ASCII escape sequence.

Of the three bookmarklets I’ve tried to install via Safari bookmark syncing, only one has succeeded. The other two can only be installed on my touch by going through the following process:

1. Create a Web page with a hyperlink to a valid page and then append the bookmarklet javascript to the end of the URL as a dummy parameter.
2. Publish the page, access it from my touch, and click on the “dummy” hyperlink.
3. Bookmark the resulting page to the touch.
4. Edit the resulting bookmark to delete all the characters occurring before “javascript” and save it.

I am running the latest version of iTunes, Safari, and have all the latest firmware and software updates on my touch. I don’t know what’s different between my setup and those who are getting the bookmark syncing process to work OK on PCs. Maybe it’s because I’m running Vista, and perhaps they are running XP? In any case, it looks like others have run into this bug as well and most likely they don’t have the ability to go through the elaborate process I’m having to utilize, and so are completely stuck!

Anyone else seeing this problem?