Archive for March, 2005

[Was going to press send in Outlook but decided that's too private and I'm bored.]

So I normally wouldn’t complain about something like this… But I actually enjoy reading your blog and such, but I’m slightly annoyed now. Looking back it looks as if at some point between the 11th and 15th you turned off the full text feeds and opted for description only feeds. While this really annoys me on larger sites (to the point where I just remove the feed) I find it a wee bit more annoying on yours simply because when I click to get the entire thing, my only option is to read it on your site. And forgive me for saying so but the combination of your handwriting font and the ruled yellow paper make it near impossible for my still young eyes to read, especially when the blue lines run through the type. It’s honestly too much work to copy and paste what you write into notepad to easily read, so I read less. Also note that I deleted every post of yours in Outlook going back to the beginning of the year simply because I’m too lazy to go through and delete the duplicate entries. I figure NewsGator will re-download the new stuff. But gah, so bloody annoying.

I can totally understand turning off full text to get the clicks and get the adviews and I’m sure you don’t want to starting putting ADV:’s in your feeds… But you’ve got to draw the line somewhere. Also, having a different feed for people that have a login also doesn’t seem like a fair option either. What in the world is going on dude? I’m sure you have enough bandwidth to handle the traffic, or I at least hope you do. Implement the /. bitch slapping if you have to. But for the love of god and all that is holy turn your full text feeds back on.

Called up Audiovox yesterday about getting my SMT5600 replaced for various reasons. I read on a forum that if you called them up and provided your credit card info they’d send a brand new one and just put a hold on the card till they received the old one back. At any rate, yesterday they said to call back today to see if they’d have any in stock. So I called up twice today and am first told that they don’t know when they’ll come in. Then on the second call I’m told “arrival of new and replacement SMT5600’s has been postponed indefinitely”… Uh, that’s not good. Maybe I’ll steal Scoble’s and swap mine in, or maybe Scoble just jinxed the entire thing to begin with by getting so many to associate the phone with his name. I’m left wondering. Why?