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hey everyone I'm Mollywood and welcome to the cnet mailbag the show where we take your feedback and answer your questions about the stuff we're doing here at seen it I want to start off with some of your snail mail first and this is the kind of thing I always find amazing we got a postcard from Steve in the US Army who wrote in from Iraq may I say first pretty awesome to get a postcard from Iraq about its archaeological wonders nice anyway steve says he trudges down to the internet cafe on his forward operating base early in the morning to watch mailbag the buzz report and however many shows i can download in the 30 minutes i have on a ridiculously slow connection he says keep up the great job and I look forward to when I can get home and see them in HD and also he says you are not alone when it comes to the belief that Google will eventually lead to all technology to become self-aware a lot of us think that too Steve thanks for writing thanks for using your internet time to watch our shows and I sincerely hope that Google is the scariest thing you have to deal with today come home soon engineer chick from the watch bol calm chatroom sent a postcard from the Big Island her fabulous vacation in Hawaii and pointed out that on the podcast central page at podcast cnet com under the description for EIC squared it says the two editor-in-chief's we please have someone fix that oh yeah Thank You engineer chick i talked to jason howell and it's already fixed and speaking of that page Jonathan rights in why do you hate us moreover why are your web designer so lazy it's been over a month since your redesigned and you still still have an updated podcast I cnet com no doubt you guys would have heard about the mistake you've had plenty of time to create a new page and you've done nothing if you really don't want to do what you were hired for then I'll be happy to do it myself my eyes and the eyes of thousands of other visitors bleed redesign the page already Wow Jonathan it's not you okay you don't hate you we just have a lot of pages on cnet but I can tell you that we have a new design and it's currently in production and if you want it to get done faster maybe you can all send me a bunch of emails and I'll forward them to the engineers they love that okay and other technical issues I've been getting a lot of email lately like this one from Sean every time I watch videos on cnet TV I have to refresh the page because when moving from one video to the other the flash player freezes don't know why but it's really annoying and I really like the videos but they're just so darn hard to get at because of this glitch and honestly I thought it was just that normal thing where people have an ad blocker on and it prevented the playlist from continuing after an ad but then it happened to me and we realized it's an actual bug it happens when you refresh the playlist like load up the buzz report or a bunch of cell phone videos while the ad is playing so now that we know what's wrong we're hard at work on a fix in fact it might be fixed by the time you see this hurry and good news for Linux users who have a problem with our site because the flash menus pull down under the video player version 10 of flash just came out and my Twitter friend Carl benin burg reports that it fixes the menu problem on cnet TV so go get flash 10 Linux people array in other important questions of the day are says during the review of t-mobile g1 did Bonnie toss a pretty effing good and fast at around 2 45 in the video just checking over the 3g network in is pretty good and fast no are no she didn't or did she and that'll do it for this week everyone keep that feedback coming mailbag at cnet com or send me a postcard to 35 second street san francisco california 94 105 see you next time