DreamHost bombs again – “New Customer Gripe Metric” ?
I’ve been mail merging since 1988. It’s not even about knowing how to mail merge, and it’s not about having the skill set required to execute a mail merge. It’s about having a component in your moral compass that compels you to check your work, because sending an email out like this is embarrassing and only cements your rating of worst webhosting company ever. Technologically, it would be one thing if there was some confusion or missing data in my customer record, so that something like “first_name” didn’t populate correctly, but you can see that...
Read Moreand a Macstories.net follow up comment
Some guy was saying how I was telling them how to run their blog. Well, he’s sort of right, but what kind of scary groupthink dealio is going on where some guys get together and decide comments are just no fun? (And hello, duh, it’s all about the comments…..!) My comment: Well now that you put it that way, I feel better. I absolutely do deserve the right to comment on their website. They benefit from my visit to their web page, and on the internet in the 21st century, it is customary, nay mandatory, to allow public responses to the news and opinions that they wish...
Read Moreand MacStories.net goes to crap one day later
So MacStories.net posts on their site today a post letting people know they’re not going to allow comments in the next version of their site basically for no good reason “but we don’t wanna”. It’s 2011 and because they use Disqus, their blog is slow and they don’t want to be bothered with spam. The guy writes this whole thing basically saying he doesn’t want to be bothered but intensely trying to make some justification that it’s not a whiny temper tantrum. It’s whiny. While we are assaulted with dumbass Dell advertisements?...
Read MoreDay One Journal App – Review of a Review… #FAIL
fwiw: If you’re looking for a publication with some class & integrity for Mac & iPhone related topics, I suggest macstories.net. I find them helpful, informative and reasoned. There was a review of a personal diary program, Day One, today on AppStorm, a site I visit from time to time. It was an awful review lacking the most basic common sense. This personal diary app stores data in plain text files that anyone can read: This means that anyone sitting down at my computer can open up my dropbox folder and view every single entry – even copy the file and view it on any...
Read MoreTekserve NYC Service Problem – Stay Away from Tekserve.com
Wednesday 8pm update: This story only got more ridiculous with the owner, Dick Demenus, emailing me to explain why it was delayed 1 day but not 3, and he regurgitated some information he was clearly given by the tech who has this all wrong. Not only that, when I said that he couldn’t have possibly looked at it personally to be saying what he was saying, he wrote back that he was personally insulted. Isn’t that exactly what people do when they’re lying through their teeth? 3 lines, curved, concentric/parallel in nature, with the largest one above the surface and the two...
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