No, I’m not dead.   I’ve been hard at work on non-Flock projects that are (mostly) internal to my new employer and not public.

Sorry, this means you can’t see my work.

For those of you who’ve been clamoring over PocketFlock running the 2.0 final builds.

Chill.

Auto-Update works just fine.

So I finally got a (paying) job working with computers and lo and behold I’m working tech support for a hosting company (no I won’t tell you which one).

I’ve made my parents proud at the cost of my soul.

It seems that nobody on the internet is fully aware of the awesome and mind-numbing stupidity that is lurking in the shadows of the net.  From the arrogant script-kiddies to people that don’t know what a mail client is and still manages to run a company’s IT division.

I’ve had to deal with one such customer for about 2 days now.  She canceled her account believing that she’s supposed to be using a Windows server if she runs Windows at home.  Apparently she’s also responsible for managing 85% of all academic websites on the internet (her words, not mine) Whatever.

-anyways-

She’s been calling just to yell at us for about 20 minutes straight each day because the refund we issued her hasn’t yet reached her account.  (Keep in mind, we sent the money, her bank is still processing it)

-sigh-

I’m always polite and talk to the customer in a professional tone, but there’s only so much you can say before you put the phone on mute and start spewing explitives you didn’t know existed before.

So let me say this in a nice enough way.

If you ever call tech support, by the time they’ve answered the phone, they already hate you.

This post is both to let you know I’m still here and that I just updated the site to WordPress 2.6

Due to a typo, the link for the Mac version of PocketFlock was downloading the Windows .zip, this has now been corrected.

Ok, it’s about time I started some posts that weren’t just PocketFlock updates or extension reviews.
So here’s my first new segment in a long time, Useless Web projects.

This weeks project involves playing around with some different PHP and javascript functions that normally are useful.

I’m assuming you’re already have a passing knowledge with HTML, Javascript, or PHP, though if you’re not, keep reading as I’ll gradually explain everything.
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Site’s back up… don’t know how many people were getting http500 errors, but it seems that a small tweak I made to .htaccess to allow me to view my stats page killed Wordpress.

Ouch.

Oh well.

Par for the course I’m sure…
I’ll sum up last week for you though.
Saturday-Sunday:
Went to Richmond to visit one of Stef’s friends
Toured city
Got Autographs from Flogging Molly
Toured city some more
Ate a chocolate covered Mealworm

Monday:
Went to work
Went to Flogging Molly concert
Drank Guinness at Flogging Molly concert (oh yes)
Was driven home in a very happy state

Tuesday:
Hungover

Wednesday:
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Thursday:
Giggled with maniacal glee as I slowly downloaded the iPhone SDK from Apple’s weak and weary servers.

Friday:
Work as normal.
Watched SciFi channel with Stef while drinking various home-made alcoholic beverages.

Saturday:
Posted this to let you know how hard at work I haven’t been.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Why was there such a long delay between me updating PocketFlock from using 0.7 to 1.0?

That’s the most commonly asked question on Outraged-Artists (or at least it was until spammers made it unmanageable).

I can break this down into two categories, what’s in my power to change, and what’s outside my power to change.

Here’s the answer (both long and short)
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Here’s a brand new version of PocketFlock for everyone waiting patiently despite my infrequent updates.

Windows only… Still ugly on Vista… No Extensions… etc…

PocketFlock 1.0 ~12.5MB

–Much Love,

Dave Ferrite