{"id":119,"date":"2008-03-21T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=119"},"modified":"2008-03-21T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T19:20:00","slug":"flash-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Flash & Flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"

After endless harangues from various online sites telling me I couldn’t view their fucking galleries until I installed the latest version of Flash, I overcame my usual aversion to so-called “upgrades” (MediaPlayer 11<\/a>, anyone?) and complied.<\/p>\n

Now the Vampire Domestication talk (here<\/a>, and here<\/a>) is broken in Firefox (both 2 and Beta), Netscape, and Opera: a few seconds of click-ridden vocals and then the soundtrack goes dead. (I am miffed to have to admit it still seems to work okay in Internet Explorer 6 because Microsoft isn’t supposed to make software that works better than its competition.) And it’s not just the online copy; my local back-ups have crapped out too. I find it unlikely that all these copies would simultaneously die on me, so I’m left hypothesizing that this new Flash plugin has backwards-compatibility issues. (Some quick surfing suggests that sound has always been a bit problematic for Flash, although I haven’t encountered any specific complaints about this latest V9).<\/p>\n

I know one or two of you have encountered the same problem over the past couple of days when trying to access VD. What I don’t know is the configurations under which other people’s problems manifest. So if you’ve got a moment, could you try it out — there’s no need to listen to the whole thing, you’ll be able to tell whether it’s working by the second slide — and tell me whether it works for you, along with your current version of Flash, and the make and model of your browser?<\/p>\n

Thanks.<\/p>\n

On the up side, I got my first Paypal donation from a sex site— or more precisely, from one of those Make-any-woman-your-sex-slave-for-$29.99 places. (Don’t click<\/a> if you have an aversion to pop-ups or the overuse of exclamation marks.) I have to admit I was kind of taken aback; these outfits are usually about separating you from money, not putting it into your pocket. Even more surprisingly, when I sent off a bemused thankyou note (promising, in their honor, to spend the money this time on edible condoms rather than the usual kibble), I received a cheerful response praising my work on its literary merit, and completely free of any mention of hot chicks slippery with desire for my manhood.<\/p>\n

Not that I would turn anything like that down, you understand. But still. I had no idea. I am so tickled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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