Of every social service that I take part in, and I do take part in a lot... Considering the status of the Blogger company and even not considering the status, Blogger needs the most serious "profile" overhaul over every other service I play on.
See my blogger profile to see for yourself...
http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707369292772350787
It's one of the least uncustomizable profile interfaces that I've encountered in recent times. Even YouTube with it's strict limits on customizations appears to be better than the blogger interface. Blogger should in my opinion be a little more customization friendly than YouTube though... Anything to bring it up to par with modern profile pages would be very well welcomed, probably among most of the blogger community?
I'm NOT complaining about this free service so much as I'm voicing my opinion so that if others concur, maybe a few minutes can be spent on the profile service to keep new bloggers coming to blogspot to blog.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007
While trying to sign up on Shutterstock.com
While I was signing up on shutterstock.com, they require you send them a copy of your government issued ID OR enter in your credit card information... I don't feel like going through the (quite a bit of) trouble to hook up my scanner, so I tried the credit card verification process...
It didn't work. I got this message:
"Sorry, address verification failed. Please try again. The verification response was: AVS was currently unavailable at the time the transaction was processed. Retry transaction"
I researched the issue, and ALL I found that was relevant was by seaching "AVS was currently unavailable at the time the transaction was processed." That search yielded this singile result https://www.securenet.com/terminal/help/What_is_AVS_Check_1.htm... Which makes this subject one of the least helpful subjects to research. With something such an issue as this, I find it surprising that I can find more information on the colors of defecation from penguins.
Due to lack of information for consumers on consumer faced problems, I'm going to have to discredit the SecureNet.com system for now for me personally, because SecureNet.com seems to provide the Address Verification System (AVS) solution for Shutterstock.com.
I've come to this decision by facing the reality that it is just a smack in the face, silent broken wind that stinks, and a funny thought that providing the awareness for a problem as the problem creator or mediator while offering no solution or direction from which to go hither.
How do you like that legal talk with a hint of Ole' English at the end?
I'm not a legal expert, I just read a lot and choose to exercise my right to free speech.
Lastly, I'd like to add that ShutterStock may want to look into getting this problem fixed. I "retried" many times with no avail. That error message could be MUCH more helpful by adding only ONE word. Add this word in bold... "Please try again momentarily," "Please try again later," or "in a few minutes," or a "few hours."
Give some kind of HINT as to when to try again. By the way it's currently written, it is suggestive to try again immediately, in my opinion from my onion. However, when trying again immediately multiple times, and after a few minutes, NO WORKIE.
BIG TIME ANGRY FACE!
Super Duper Angry Mean Face
Take that!
It didn't work. I got this message:
"Sorry, address verification failed. Please try again. The verification response was: AVS was currently unavailable at the time the transaction was processed. Retry transaction"
I researched the issue, and ALL I found that was relevant was by seaching "AVS was currently unavailable at the time the transaction was processed." That search yielded this singile result https://www.securenet.com/terminal/help/What_is_AVS_Check_1.htm... Which makes this subject one of the least helpful subjects to research. With something such an issue as this, I find it surprising that I can find more information on the colors of defecation from penguins.
Due to lack of information for consumers on consumer faced problems, I'm going to have to discredit the SecureNet.com system for now for me personally, because SecureNet.com seems to provide the Address Verification System (AVS) solution for Shutterstock.com.
I've come to this decision by facing the reality that it is just a smack in the face, silent broken wind that stinks, and a funny thought that providing the awareness for a problem as the problem creator or mediator while offering no solution or direction from which to go hither.
How do you like that legal talk with a hint of Ole' English at the end?
I'm not a legal expert, I just read a lot and choose to exercise my right to free speech.
Lastly, I'd like to add that ShutterStock may want to look into getting this problem fixed. I "retried" many times with no avail. That error message could be MUCH more helpful by adding only ONE word. Add this word in bold... "Please try again momentarily," "Please try again later," or "in a few minutes," or a "few hours."
Give some kind of HINT as to when to try again. By the way it's currently written, it is suggestive to try again immediately, in my opinion from my onion. However, when trying again immediately multiple times, and after a few minutes, NO WORKIE.
BIG TIME ANGRY FACE!
Super Duper Angry Mean Face
Take that!
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Constructive Tips to Cure Boredom
If you're ever looking for something constructive to do with your boredom, there's a lot you can probably do to contribute to humanity on the internet...
1 For example, you can promote a cause you believe in (eg. one.org, breast cancer awareness, world hunger, world peace) and post links to the sites on your social profiles (MySpace, Facebook, Hi5). Even if there's no causes you believe in, you can probably promote something that represents that, OR you can make my personal website, a cause worth being contempt for (just joking, partially).
2 If you know multiple languages: You can search Open Source programs and do translations for them. Try these Google searches = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Hopefully that will get you started.
The following three links use theory of the Widsom of Crowds:
3 If you're good at English, you can contribute to the Multilingual Free Dictionary, Wiktionary.org. It's a place where anyone can contribute definitions of words. What users submit here is usually (if not always) reviewed to cut down on bogus submissions.
Related tidbit: The Wiktionary is similar to the UrbanDictionary, except the Wiktionary is a little more serious (or politically correct, which may not be necessarily good, because it limits freedom of speech).
4 If you're good at something, no matter what it is (each of us usually has some type of experience to offer that's different from another persons), then Wikipedia.org is for you. It's one of the worlds most popular sites that's completely user contributed. You can write about anything and help the human race find the best explanation of everything. Content here is also reviewed as it is on Wiktionary.org.
If you want to share a thought, or if you want to share another way to constructively cure boredom, please post a comment sharing what you like!
Technorati Tags: Wisdom Of Crowds | Bored
1 For example, you can promote a cause you believe in (eg. one.org, breast cancer awareness, world hunger, world peace) and post links to the sites on your social profiles (MySpace, Facebook, Hi5). Even if there's no causes you believe in, you can probably promote something that represents that, OR you can make my personal website, a cause worth being contempt for (just joking, partially).
2 If you know multiple languages: You can search Open Source programs and do translations for them. Try these Google searches = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Hopefully that will get you started.
The following three links use theory of the Widsom of Crowds:
3 If you're good at English, you can contribute to the Multilingual Free Dictionary, Wiktionary.org. It's a place where anyone can contribute definitions of words. What users submit here is usually (if not always) reviewed to cut down on bogus submissions.
Related tidbit: The Wiktionary is similar to the UrbanDictionary, except the Wiktionary is a little more serious (or politically correct, which may not be necessarily good, because it limits freedom of speech).
4 If you're good at something, no matter what it is (each of us usually has some type of experience to offer that's different from another persons), then Wikipedia.org is for you. It's one of the worlds most popular sites that's completely user contributed. You can write about anything and help the human race find the best explanation of everything. Content here is also reviewed as it is on Wiktionary.org.
If you want to share a thought, or if you want to share another way to constructively cure boredom, please post a comment sharing what you like!
Technorati Tags: Wisdom Of Crowds | Bored
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Turn Off Hindi Language Transliteration
I opted in to help Google with the Hindi language perfection and it was SO annoying in my opinion. I don't even know how to read hindi, it wasn't what I thought it was. I searched on the internet to find it and it took unnecessarily long.
All you do is go to settings and select NO where it says transliteration. I hope I have saved you the time and frustration I spent trying to find this.
More ranting: I searched for hindi language opt out in Google, and it didn't come up. I suppose transliteration is a word that everyone commonly remembers except me? Well, I'll remember it now, at least for a few hours. I've been posting for so many months having work work around each word I wrote being converted into Hindi. I tried hindu, sandscript, sandscrit, sanscrit and all kinds of other crap but OH no. After painless months of searching, I finally found out how here. You can also toggle hindi transliteration using CTRL + g (which I learned for "blogger keyboard shortcuts").
Hehehe
I've included this in my funny section on blogger because I know how much some people love to laugh at misery. LAUGH IN THE FACE OF DEATH, FEAR, AND THOSE WHO ARE HAVING MISERABLE EXPERIENCES!
Hehehehehehee just kidding.
All you do is go to settings and select NO where it says transliteration. I hope I have saved you the time and frustration I spent trying to find this.
More ranting: I searched for hindi language opt out in Google, and it didn't come up. I suppose transliteration is a word that everyone commonly remembers except me? Well, I'll remember it now, at least for a few hours. I've been posting for so many months having work work around each word I wrote being converted into Hindi. I tried hindu, sandscript, sandscrit, sanscrit and all kinds of other crap but OH no. After painless months of searching, I finally found out how here. You can also toggle hindi transliteration using CTRL + g (which I learned for "blogger keyboard shortcuts").
Hehehe
I've included this in my funny section on blogger because I know how much some people love to laugh at misery. LAUGH IN THE FACE OF DEATH, FEAR, AND THOSE WHO ARE HAVING MISERABLE EXPERIENCES!
Hehehehehehee just kidding.
Promote, Market, Share Your Blog Using very little time
Almost everyone one of us use eMails. I keep telling my friends with websites to put a link to your website, blog, myspace profile or other in your profile! Why?
In the midst of the chaos also known as life, even friends can forget website addresses. I'm sure some of my friends have websites or profiles that I don't even know about and I wish they would share them in their signatures! Sometimes I just lose track and my friends who do have links in their signatures, it reminds me, hey, instead of finding a free flash game on the internet, how bout I check out my awesome friends website?
Just make sure you like people you send emails with, so you don't send your boss to your myspace profile or flickr account in a thong, unless well, if you're into that kind of thing.
Tip: Don't post links to adult content. If your email provider finds out they may remove your email after having fun seeing what else you're in to. You'll have to read the Terms of Service (TOS) for your email provider to see if their friendly or not towards that kind of thing. Be afraid, TOS are usually warm, fuzzy, and enticing multiple page legal documents. Always consult a doctor if you want a doctored opinion.
Here's another tip I recommend to promote and share your blog/myspace/facebook/website.
In the midst of the chaos also known as life, even friends can forget website addresses. I'm sure some of my friends have websites or profiles that I don't even know about and I wish they would share them in their signatures! Sometimes I just lose track and my friends who do have links in their signatures, it reminds me, hey, instead of finding a free flash game on the internet, how bout I check out my awesome friends website?
Just make sure you like people you send emails with, so you don't send your boss to your myspace profile or flickr account in a thong, unless well, if you're into that kind of thing.
Tip: Don't post links to adult content. If your email provider finds out they may remove your email after having fun seeing what else you're in to. You'll have to read the Terms of Service (TOS) for your email provider to see if their friendly or not towards that kind of thing. Be afraid, TOS are usually warm, fuzzy, and enticing multiple page legal documents. Always consult a doctor if you want a doctored opinion.
Here's another tip I recommend to promote and share your blog/myspace/facebook/website.
Monday, October 01, 2007
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