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Posts Tagged ‘Web’

Twitterism

I’ve always felt very ‘meh’ about blog posts filled with random twitter posts. It seems like everything is hardcoded into a language that nobody gets unless you were on the other side of the conversation as it happened. It’s like reading a conversation that someone has with an imaginary friend. A friend that changes subject very often and randomly. I just don’t get it.

So I’m taking my vengeance with the most random text messages taken from my cell phone. The following list is taken both from my inbox and my sent message folder and hopefully is completly without meaning for everyone except me. 

• Turtle
• This is all your fault. Just so we’re clear.
• THEY CUT SHEPPARD’S HAND OMG OMG OMG !?!!
• Yay! I’ll finally hear about the gory bits
• He stole underwear! So rockin’
• So for the record : dancing in high heels till 4am is not as glamourous as it sounds
• A nestled repetitive 5×5 if elseif elseif… structure. Supposedly the QA gagged on sight lol
• Same Area code! never seen before
• Your $1 beer + free bacon basket, it wouldn’t happen to be in indianapolis?
• The downside of bowl-plates is that your fork never has quote the right angle to scrape the melted cheese in the arc…
• Oooh i can svill speak english
• Rainbow!
• I’m watching a movie and minnesota looks disturbingly similar to quebec…
• God it figures as soon as I find a quiet place to read it’s suddenly filled with old ladies talking at the top of their lungs…
• Lol Omg he s trying to flirt with you… Silly boys
• Soldier was one of the greatest movies ever made
• Whether spill or debauchery either way that does seem to be a good sign of drunk
• Wow I should move to Canada and become a squirrel… It appears to pay about as well as grad school.

Identity was removed to protect the reputation of the people who wrote those  :D

Goodbye powweb…

A good 2-3 months ago, I went out and canceled my account at powweb because I’d joined  The Geek Cartel and didn’t have any other hosting needs. I thought to myself “Hey, better not get late before the renewal date and cancel it right away so there’s nothing to pay!” and I went and searched deep into the customer interface until I thought I’d hit the Holy grail Handgrenade of Antioch aptly named “Cancel Server” and I clicked on it.

Well now, as you’re reading this you must realize something went wrong or I wouldn’t bring it up. Well I canceled my domain but not my account. So today I got my credit card invoice online and gah! what’s this big gunk of cash on that credit card I no longer use? powwebdamnit!

So there go tonight I used their LiveChat (exactly the same one as the one at my job, so ironic) and talked with some Albert Who Never Misspells (and I’m not convinced he wasn’t a robot) who told me that I had to pay some fee if I wanted them to cancel my account and refund me. Great.  I tried explaining that I went on their help documentation to find how to cancel my account. That I hadn’t logged in for 2 months. Alas. I asked him how I should have done it and he gave me a link. Which I’m going to give to you because I know some of you use powweb. They’ve been good to me in the past, it’s just joining the cartel was too cool to pass. But anyway, if you ever want to cancel your account I suggest you go to http://www.powweb.com/controlpanel/BillingCentral/AccountRenewal.bml and take care of canceling it there, and then open a livechat to confirm that it will be canceled for real.

I’m going to keep this experience foremost in my mind when I will work on the customer hub 2.0 at work. Oh and also that one time I deleted all the databases because they were linked to a domain name that I was deleting on some Plesk interface. Interfaces can suck majorly, but they don’t have to. One more bad experience on the web convinces me that I can do good work to help people… so it’s at least that.

A new blog in the family :D

Today I set up a new blog for my “sister-in-as-good-as-law” and her passion for all things food & cooking. It will be a database of all her favourite recipies and it was a pleasure to set up thinking of all the small ways that will make it easier to browse and explore. I still have to find decadent looking photos to use in the header but in the meantime I think it’s very well organized. Unfortunatly there isn’t a specialized search function that looks what you have left in the fridge! I feel that it’s the only thing that’s missing. It’s called La Cuisinière Paresseuse and I suggest you all bookmark it because it’s yummy stuff over there!

Damnit

Now my credit card is RUINED. All because someone sent me a link on Jabber to see if the site was down for me. Now I’ve learned of the existence of The Escapist store

At least it was a link to a pretty good comic. I’m going to forgive him.

April’s fools

Out of all the april’s fools I saw or heard of today I’m totally hooked by The Leaky Cauldron’s take on Twitter! It’s so much fun to watch it update in real time and read the sillyness

Although the trick at work that led one of the guys in marketing to email google about their lack of security on any website that uses AdWords was spectacular!

Betas

At work I’ve discovered the Scrum management technique. ( If you have no idea what it is, go read the article right away.) I personally find it pretty awesome. At first everything looks so obvious because it’s based on common sense, and yet if you read a lot about it you realize how drastically different it is from traditional “project manager” philosophy. I’m mentioning it because Scrum is used to work applications in incrementations of valid working code. So that after each version, everything that is there works. You simply don’t have all the features yet. And so you could say that each release is a final release as opposed to an alpha -> beta ->final chain of releases. 

At the same time the two web applications I use the most, gMail and Ravelry, have both been open to the public and in beta for a while now, and they don’t look like they will ever get out of beta. It looks like it’s become the “in” thing to do… 

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Maybe it’s a symptom of society where nothing is ever good enough and 15 years old girls want to get plastic surgery!

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