hey, @posterous. i'm pissed.

we've been on really good terms up until this point. i've even managed to get a couple of friends to move over to your services. but the last few days have been kinda' hellish, all culminating tonight in a big, huge massive load of FAIL. shall we bullet point?

  • autoposting: its my understanding that you've recently updated the autoposting feature. i'm sure there are some great tools there, but none of them are useful to me. what it has done is slowed down autoposting to a crawl. sometimes its 45 minutes till an autopost appears. it used to be instantaneous. wth?
  • facebook: i don't understand why when i log out of one posterous account and log in to another, i'm logged out of facebook. i even went so far as to write an email asking why this is, because i always log in with an email address, not via facebook connect (or whatever). your response?

Luke --

We log you out of facebook because facebook accouints can be used to log you into your facebook account. 

Cheers, and thanks for using Posterous,

Vince

aside from the fact that was completely unhelpful, i don't even know what that means.

  • auto save/drafts: you know, it never really occurred to me that there's not an auto draft or save function like in EVERY OTHER BLOG I'VE EVER USED. how did i come to notice this? i had a very long, informational, detailed post for our business's blog that i had to work on for two days (because life happens). when i started it, i looked to make sure it was auto saving... and then i found out there was no auto save function. so i left a window of Safari open for TWO DAYS while i worked on the post. why didn't i just do an email, where a draft is automatically saved? because every time i've done that and sent it in, the formatting is all wrong. not just little things, but bullet points and text bolding and italics. i've even tried working in Word or Pages and copying/pasting and still comes out wrong. and when i go in to edit it to try and make sense of it all, it doesn't work. anywho: so after two days of working on this post, i wrap it up, check it two or three times for spelling & grammar, and click over to the "Schedule this post for the future" button. i click that. go in and add my tags. lastly, i go to fix the date and time for when it should post... and the browser window goes blank.

nothing.

white screen. nothing's loading, nothing's moving. frantically, i go back to the previous page, and nothing.

all this to say, you're on very thin ice with me right now as both a Posterous "evangelist" and a regular user.

edit: see that third bullet point? formatting is completely off because i copied and pasted that email response from the original email and for some reason, it carried over. WTH.

Tagged anger FAIL Posterous

simple BBT rant

hey BB&T. i'm sure you may ultimately wind up being quite lovely after all the weird kinks are worked out, post-conversion from Colonial.

but hey man, lemme tell you: its not fun going into a store to buy stuff for LAP with our LAP Business Checking card... and be declined. why? oh, that's right... you've yet to get us the new BB&T branded cards in the mail. in the meantime, while we wait on them, ya cancelled our Colonial branded cards. and hey, we knew that would happen, we knew that after June 1st, they would be cancelled, but hey, i kinda' sorta' figured maybe since you hadn't given us the new cards, you wouldn't cut us off at the knees.

HAHA JK JK JK. joke's on us. but seriously, GIVE US OUR CARDS. we like to keep things separated for tax purposes, and i don't like using our personal finances for business stuff. and since we still don't have our new account numbers, we can't transfer money from the LAP PayPal account to the new home.

c'mon.
Tagged banking BB&T Colonial FAIL

how to lose an election in Massachusetts

not that hard, actually.

Tagged coakley election FAIL MA massachusetts
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