Monthly Archives: November 2012

The Truth About Obamacare

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What truth? I think the title of this article sums it up pretty accurately: The Election Is Tomorrow, and Americans Still Don’t Understand Obamacare.

Love has been extremely outspoken in her opposition to Obamacare and her desire to see it repealed, even though she hasn’t proposed any reasonable alternative plans. (When asked about her own health care proposals during the event, Love offered up measures that had already been passed as part of Obamacare.)

That’s not all that surprising. I think most people regardless of party would admit there are some reasonable if not good things in the bill. But anyone who says they’ve read the entire thousands of pages and agrees with every point is either a toe-the-party-line push-over who doesn’t understand economics or lying.

I’m in the camp that wants it repealed. Not because I think it’s all bad… but because I think the bad parts are really, really, really bad.

HTML5 Beta Breaks Safari

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A few days ago, I learned I couldn’t play YouTube videos in Safari 6. Every YouTube page displayed a black video window with no player controls. Firefox and Chrome were working fine so it wasn’t a YouTube issue. I then learned that our iPads were having the exact same issue.

After posting a question on the Safari forum, a helpful soul gave me the solution. It turns out that Google automatically signed me up for the HTML5 beta. The fix is to go to YouTube HTML5 Video Player page and click the link at the bottom of the page to remove yourself from the beta.

Shame on Google for automatically enrolling people in a beta program for something that doesn’t work without telling the user what they’ve done.