You might open Fargo and find that it doesn't load as you expect. You don't see any of the icons that should be on the left side of the page, you don't see the T-Rex or any of the items on the right side of the page, if you have one, your menubar.opml items don't appear, and you don't see your name where the account settings drop-down menu is located.

Here is a link to a screenshot of what I described above.

Fixing the problem

1. Close the tab or browser window in which you opened Fargo

2. Log on to your Dropbox account

3. Click Apps, smallPicture, #prefs

4. Right-click tabs.json and select Delete

5. Open Fargo in a new tab or browser window

Fargo will load as expected, but you will not have any open tabs. At this point you can select File, Open to open any outline you have been working on and edit it as you expect.

Reproducing the problem

1. Have at least one tab with one of your outlines

2. Open an outline using either File, Open by name, or File, Open by URL

3. Exit Fargo by closing the tab or browser window in which it is loaded

4. Open Fargo in a new tab or browser window

So far, every time I follow the steps above using either Chrome or Internet Explorer, I see the loading problem as described above. The problem appears to be triggered by keeping an external outline open when exiting Fargo. If you close an external outline before exiting Fargo the problem does not occur.

I have had another occurrence of the left and right icons / elements not loading, as I describe here. It seems to occur if I keep a named outline that is not one of my outlines, in this case it was Andy DeSoto's, open and exit out of the browser. The next time I open Fargo the issue appears and is resolved by deleting tabs.json.

Thanks to being able to take a peek at Andy DeSoto's Fargo site, I have been able to figure out how to get my menus back on my worknotes and profile.

Now to see if I can resurrect Sports Beat.

Phil Windley has written a piece about how Fargo aligns to something he calls Personal Cloud Application Architectures. I think the main point that Phil is making is that PCAA, of which he says Fargo is an example, allows users control over their data. As Dave says, there is no exporting of Fargo's data because it is written in a place where a user has direct access.

However, right now, Fargo has a dependency on Dropbox. If you don't have or don't want a Dropbox account, you can't use Fargo. Ideally, I think users should be able to specify Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, or Sync as their storage provider.

In order for this to happen, there needs to be an open API that all these providers use, similar to what Dropbox has implemented, so that developers can write and maintain one set of storage code. I don't now if such an API exists, and I suspect there isn't one because it would appear to be in the storage vendor's best interest to have a closed API that locks people into their service.

If you have a problem with Fargo where the left and right icons/elements don't load, go in to Dropbox and access Apps, smallPicture, #prefs and delete tabs.json.

Dave has flipped the bit and Fargo 2 is now in production. Now I need to figure out how to get my Disqus back on these worknotes.

And it is a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Won't you be my neighbor?

I've had a Mophie external battery charger for some time, and I swear that I have used it to charge my HTC One before, but today is the first time I have noticed that it does a slow charge of the HTC One.

I thought I bought the Mophie capable of charging iPads and other tablets rapidly, so I am surprised that it is slow charging the HTC One. I have to research this further.

My wife is in surgery right now, and I am sitting in a lounge waiting. The lounge was much more crowded this morning when we first arrived, it is more comfortable now that it is not crowded.

So far, during the time that I have been sitting here I have seen three different dogs brought around. Nice, friendly little pooches.

The doctor came by a little while ago, Ruth is out of surgery. The surgery went well and my wife is now in recovery. It will be another hour before I see her.

Ok, the first post published as expected although it took a little time for the HTML to render. Lots of stuff appears to be happening automatically. I am curious to find out what remains of some of the old Fargo template stuff.

I see that the initial entry as comment and marking as published script is still in effect.