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August 15, 2008
Friday
 
 
Gates on Georgia
Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland/Laramie, Wy)  Russia

This press briefing by Secretary Gates is the best summary of the situation I have run across thus far:

There is a certain level of bluntness in his delivery that I quite enjoyed.

Comments

I'm sure it's very interesting, but it doesn't work with Firefox...


Posted by ian at August 15, 2008 11:32 AM

I just refreshed the page and it played OK in Firefox.

STB.


Posted by ScotsToryB at August 15, 2008 11:55 AM

Works in Firefox just fine for me too.

The lack of cringing diplo-speak is quite refreshing.


Posted by Perry de Havilland at August 15, 2008 12:45 PM

Interestingly enough, none of these video code blocks work right for me either, although they do for everyone I have asked. I am working blind for the most part, although funnily enough it display okay in the MT Preview mode. So... No idea. I have been assuming it is the combination of Firefox+Linux+AfterStep I use.

It appears to work for most folk so I have to live with it until I or someone stumbles across what the special case is and how to work around it.


Posted by Dale Amon at August 15, 2008 01:38 PM

I might add that might working hypothesis is that it is rendering behind the background as I see signs that it is there when I do page refreshes.


Posted by Dale Amon at August 15, 2008 01:39 PM

Dale,

AfterStep?

Truly?


Posted by countingcats at August 15, 2008 02:14 PM

It does work in FF, but it demanded to place a cookie - I didn't like that part. I did like Gates very much though.


Posted by Alisa at August 15, 2008 02:47 PM

Countingcats:

Yes, AfterStep is a window manager for Linux with very similar appearance and properties to the name sake. Unfortuneately it does not seem to have a lot of development going on. You can probably find their main developer site via google.


Posted by Dale Amon at August 16, 2008 12:07 PM

I don't know if it plays on my system or not, because I can't be bothered to find out. If it was text, I could scan it in a second, but listening to people talk is such a slow and irritating way of finding out anything that I'd rather do without.


Posted by Andrew McG at August 23, 2008 09:26 PM
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