The Happiness Project: Safari readers: I share your pain. And I'm working on it.

The Happiness Project

THE HAPPINESS PROJECT is the memoir of the year I spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific studies, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier – happily, it was a #1 New York Times bestseller. As one of the hundreds of experiments I've conducted, I started this blog. Here, I recount my daily adventures in pursuit of happiness. –

Gretchen Rubin

What Started Me Thinking

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up." Mark Twain
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” Robert Louis Stevenson
"Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her." Luke 10:41-42
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” Simone Weil
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” Colette
“It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.” G. K. Chesterton
“A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.” Joseph Addison
“Best is good. Better is best.” Lisa Grunwald
“Order is Heaven’s first law.” Alexander Pope

Happiness Theories I Reject

Flaubert: "To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."
Vauvenargues: “There are men who are happy without knowing it.”
Eric Hoffer: “The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
Sartre: "Hell is other people."
Willa Cather: “One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them…”
Alexander Smith: “We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.”
John Stuart Mill: “Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”

Hi, all you annoyed Safari readers out there.

I know that the text of the posts looks underlined, and that you can't post comments. I'm trying to fix the problem.

One reader told me that the problem disappeared when she updated her Safari, which made me think that this was a Typepad problem.

Well, I'm still going back and forth with Typepad, but at least initially, they're suggesting that it may be some mistake somewhere on the blog.

I think that the people who see the problem can't post. However, if you could take one second to email me [grubin [at] gretchenrubin [[dot]] [com]] to let me know if there is a post at which the problem appears, I can look there at that first affected post to see if I can spot a problem.

I ran the "Markup Validation Service," which uncovered 173 errors! I can't understand them, let alone fix them.

Also, if you have any general advice for a very un-tech-savvy person about how to fix this, I'd appreciate it VERY MUCH.

And please try to keep reading, despite the underlining...

Comments

I'm using safari and everything seems fine.

Posted by: E.T.Cook | November 28, 2007 at 12:46 AM

I just upgraded to Safari 3.0.4 (free), and I'm posting with no problems. It's available for Mac OS X Tiger, Windows XP and Windows Vista at http://www.apple.com/safari/download .

Posted by: KM | November 28, 2007 at 02:46 AM

I use Safari and have no problems!

Posted by: cornflakegirl88 | November 28, 2007 at 03:04 AM

Gretchen,

I'm using Safari v. 3.0.4 and see and have no problem!

Posted by: Tammy | November 28, 2007 at 05:28 AM

Using Safari 3.0.4 on Leopard and no problems.

Posted by: damon | November 28, 2007 at 11:10 AM

I don't know what version of Safari I've got (probably an old one, I'll check into an upgrade) but I do see this problem. I've seen it on a few other blogs lately as well, though I can't tell for sure if they are typepad blogs or not.

Posted by: R.M Koske | November 28, 2007 at 11:36 AM

I'm reading a study from 2003 (from The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) that looks right up your alley. They're proposing that buying experiences makes people noticably happier than buying things.

http://www.psych.cornell.edu/sec/pubPeople/tdg1/VB_&_Gilo.pdf

Interesting stuff!

Posted by: R.M. Koske | November 28, 2007 at 01:39 PM

The second item of the section titled "Every Wednesday is Tip Day" ("November 14: Five tips for gestures...") is missing the closing "a" tag.
Add the closing "a" just before the closing div.

Posted by: J. Romine | November 28, 2007 at 02:32 PM

Thanks SO MUCH. What a relief to hear that not all Safari readers are suffering.

I'm off to follow this advice...

Keep your fingers crossed. I really appreciate the help.

Posted by: Gretchen Rubin | November 28, 2007 at 06:06 PM

Posted by: Gretchen Rubin | November 28, 2007 at 06:07 PM

I was having problems with Safari, not on this site but with others.

I installed Moxilla FireFox and have had no problems since then.

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