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Messenger: Due to a connection problem, changes you make might not be applied to other computers you use

For the last days, I’ve been receiving the following message from Windows Live Messenger: “Due to a connection problem, changes you make might not be applied to other computers you use”.

Basically what it means to me:
1. You might be able to login next time.
2. Your contact list will appear empty.
3. You will appear Offline to others no matter what you do.

I also tried using CenterICQ from Linux console, but things are not much different.

On other places I read that the problem is because of Messenger’s services ingration with Yahoo’s. I guess the only thing to do is wait until the problems are solved.

Add comment July 18th, 2006

Odd… Google with no search results or errors…

While working on an HTML encoder to properly show PHP code on this site, I perfomed a search on Google that returned no results or error messages.

The strings is quite simple: " (the query is exactly 5 characters long)

The URL that were sent to the server were:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%26%2334%3B
http://www.google.com/search?q=%26%2334%3B&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

The presented entity (") corresponds to a double quote, similar to &.
Seems like the problem has to do with the ampersand followed by the number sign.

Someone aware of this?

Add comment June 29th, 2006