Monthly Archives: May 2010
Handling Rails errors: custom error pages, logging, notification
Bikes on a plane
When I went to New Zealand last year, I decided to take my bike with me. I’d have a van the whole time, so moving it around with me would be easy. And Air New Zealand allowed me two free … Continue reading
What Mark Fiore is doing with his Pulitzer Prize money
Newly minted Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore — whose app is now in the iTunes Store — had this to say: Since winning the prize brought attention to Apple’s policy of rejecting iPhone apps that “ridicule public figures” I figure … Continue reading
More app store hypocrisy
Earlier this year, the nuns on Cupertino’s app store approval team removed 5000 applications for having sexual content. Fine. Be a prude. But what makes this funny is that Apple’s left hand doesn’t know what its right hand is doing: … Continue reading
UPS = United Parcel Storage
How does it make sense for UPS to keep my package in a warehouse — 19 miles from my house — for two days?
Ride Snowboards’ phone number
To reach Ride Snowboards’ customer service, call their parent company, K2 Sports at (206) 805-4800‎. Then push 1 (for customer service), 2 (for snowboards), 2 (for Ride) and 2 (for consumers).
Don’t cancel
Liz Danzico wrote a great little essay on two flaws in our culture: Saying things we don’t mean to be “polite” (“Let’s get together soon”) Agreeing to do something and then cancelling on the person The post is concise and … Continue reading
There’s a reason he was denied bail
From the January 9, 2010 Herald Sun:
Facebook doesn’t understand Canada
When you update your Facebook account and link your interests and activities to the new community pages, Facebook automatically assigns a picture to represent each interest. Sometimes that doesn’t work very well: