ERIC SHEFFERMAN <DOT> COM

For a week or two (I’m pretty sure this started before Hurricane Irene) I’ve been having trouble accessing secure pages on amazon.com. I can’t see my past orders, reach my Amazon Cloud Drive, or now even place a new order. I discovered today that I can’t get the newegg.com site to work either — so I’ve got no way to order computer stuff I need.

At first I thought it was something corrupted on my main computer.

I’ve tried Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari browsers. Then I tried my older computer that’s running Linux. I’ve tried my laptop.

Nothing works. On amazon and newegg I can’t access any page that’s secure.

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Amazon showed me a new clean look today… Nice design with lots of white.

here’s a product page:Update: September 4, 2011

Now amazon has gone back to looking how it used to. (But I still can’t access my amazon account!!!).

I did find this interesting article on the evolution of the amazon add to shopping cart button.

I found a printout of a webpage that is long since gone (and not archived at http://www.archive.org — that would have been too easy).

So what to do? Scan it in and use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.

Um, but I don’t have any software like that and I’d rather not buy any.

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