For a completely ridiculous reason, sorry.
So some of you may have noticed I haven’t been replying to emails. This is because before I left for Kenya, I decided to upgrade my free Google Apps email account to the $50/year “Premier” version, which buys me telephone support among other things, which I figured might be useful if I have email problems in Kenya. Anyway, a year passed, and I let the Premier features expire since I never used them.
Due to a Google bug, my email totally went berserk and I couldn’t access it at all, and I couldn’t even access the settings for my emails, AND since I no longer was paying for phone support, no one would help me. So I started posting on the Google forum looking for help, and I made the news, which in turn may well have forced Google to hurry up and fix my email. Quite an ordel for something terribly unexciting. Also a longwinded excuse for not replying to emails. For anyone who’s interested or just amused, here’s the article on the Register (UK):
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/google_apps_downgrade_loop_fail/
2 replies on “I’m in the news!”
Dear PaulBBlair. Your whistle-blowing antics are not much appreciated. Google has been tracking your account status, and using their new geo-locating through packet sniffing blah blah magic, determined that people in Kenya should be thrown for loops (of the redirecting nature in this case), because, that’s your life.
in other news. when i try to hit tab to go to the next form item on this reply form, it tabs me all the way to the next reply form on your front page. just and fyi. hack that s**t and fix it, or you shall be no worse than google!
I jump through hoops for breakfast. Take that, Google.
Your other news is now old news– the tabbing bug for comments is now fixed for Firefox, IE, and other browsers that follow the rules. WebKit browsers all seemed to ignore tabindex anyway, which is why I never noticed. This brings my total number of WordPress PHP hacks up to five!