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Comment on I has iPhone by Sean

Sean — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:48:06 +0000

Congrats! Now starts the App Store spending spree.

Comment on Bachelor Chow by Knit Bot

Knit Bot — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:45:29 +0000

D’OH! Now you’ve actually made me hungry for Tuna Noodle Muck…!

(2 cups pasta: cook; 1 tin Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup; 1 tin tuna. Muck together. )

Comment on Why the bluetooth headset hate? by Sean Mountcastle

Sean Mountcastle — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:45:01 +0000

I’ve heard good things about Jawbone (http://www.jawbone.com/), you may wish to check it out.

Note that if you end-up purchasing a bluetooth headset, we’ll all hate you too

Sean

Comment on The irony by AT&T Insanity « Sean Mountcastle

AT&T Insanity « Sean Mountcastle — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:18:29 +0000

[...] friend Dave is was looking to get an iPhone now that his Treo died. I already have AT&T service and I’d love to upgrade to an iPhone as well. Being an old [...]

Comment on The irony by davidb

davidb — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:46:32 +0000

I actually could have gotten one on saturday, at the Columbia, MD Apple store. But, in a fit of “I’ve gotta have a phone for tomorrow”, I actually got a normal cell phone, and couldn’t bring myself to buy another one just one day later.

Comment on The irony by Sean

Sean — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:28:11 +0000

Get to any of the Apple stores in McLean, Clarendon, or Pentagon City tomorrow morning — according to Apple (http://www.apple.com/retail/iphone/), all three stores have iPhones in stock. I hope you get it as I’m eager to check it out in person!

Comment on Red Sweater Software Spam Filtering Lets Me Down; Red Sweater Tries Real Hard by Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:55:15 +0000

Glad it all worked out. Thanks for updating the title of the blog entry

Comment on Red Sweater Software Spam Filtering Lets Me Down; Red Sweater Tries Real Hard by davidb

davidb — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:25:48 +0000

It did occur to me that the emails were being erroneously caught in the spam filters (and, as you both suspected, they were) however, I did attempt to check and, for whatever reason, didn’t find any email from red-sweater.com (or Daniel). I guessing there was some sort of failure in whatever I was doing to check, as, after checking today, voila! I have no less than 3 emails from Daniel with my code.

Comment on Red Sweater Software Spam Filtering Lets Me Down; Red Sweater Tries Real Hard by ChrisSmolinski

ChrisSmolinski — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:37:31 +0000

I suspect that you have a broken spam filter that is blocking legitimate emails. I’ve had problems with this as well (sending out registration codes to customers). GMail has been particularly bad lately, and then Earthlink has had their silly challenge system for ages now. Many folks forget to whitelist accounts and/or domains that they expect to get a email from.

Comment on Red Sweater Software Spam Filtering Lets Me Down; Red Sweater Tries Real Hard by Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:18:08 +0000

Hi David - I’m glad I stumbled upon this page (thanks for linking to me, so I noticed the referral!).

As you can probably imagine, a situation like you’re experiencing ranks high on the list of “things we never want our customers to go through.”

It’s a classic problem in the software development world. It’s relatively rare, thankfully. But when it happens, of course it’s infuriating to both customer and developer. What happens is somehow, for some reason, the email channel breaks down between developer and customer. So the developer is diligently trying to make sure things are right, but the customer is not receiving any of the emails.

Usually it’s caused by spam filters. I’m lucky in this case to have the opportunity to respond in your blog (hopefully it’s not filtered ).

The original email including your code did go out a few minute after you purchased Black Ink, on April 21. The response to your inquiry went out on April 29.

So how do I get into private communication with you? Is it possible you have a spam filter you could check for my emails? Can you white-list support at red-sweater.com? I will try again from a different email address now.

We’ll get this sorted out.

Daniel

Comment on Missing sound found by davidb

davidb — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:00:40 +0000

Ah. I’d never actually changed the display setting. Or if I did, I got hit by this bug and forgot about it. I’ve tested it with the new release, and, no, it isn’t fixed.

Comment on Missing sound found by Pete

Pete — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:15:36 +0000

Well, we’ll see. I was told that it’s scheduled to be fixed in this release. It’s very weird. The default setting is, I believe, “dim.” If you set it to “normal” or “bright”, it works for about 5 - 10 seconds, then returns to “dim”, even though that’s not what the setting says.

Guess I’ll have to wait to see when our update arrives. I think it was scheduled to be downloaded this morning, but I haven’t had a chance to check.

Comment on Missing sound found by davidb

davidb — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:46:58 +0000

There was no mention of this in what passes for release notes, but I guess there wouldn't be.

I didn't try changing the display settings, so it is possible that this is fixed. However, I doubt it.

Comment on Missing sound found by Pete

Pete — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:15:31 +0000

But what of the important stuff, like, “Does the display actually stay at any level above ‘dim’?”

Comment on The Case of the Mysterious Missing Sound by Pete

Pete — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:23:09 +0000

The fact that any tech support actually called back just floors me. Yeah, TiVo!