 | Last login: 23 hours agoJoseph is a single guy from Chicago, Illinois, USA. Politically Moderate, Underemployed Jewish Applied Mathematician / Electrical Engineer tutoring all knowing freshmen in Mathematics. This profile, like most of the Web, is optimized for a screen resolution of 1024 x 768, and probably best viewed in Firefox. A more complete listing of posts, including archived ones, can be found on the introduction page for this site, and is backed up on this page at Googlegroups, with occasional commentary found on Stumbling into the Void on Tribe.
Please click on "list" to see this blog the way it was meant to be viewed. You can return to your ring here. |
- imgPlace.com | Free Image Hosting | Free Image Uploading | Home
 Dec 14, 2008 8:49am  (4 reviews) http://imgplace.com/- While this service seems to host images quite reliably, I've found serious problems with at least one other aspect of the service, which one would be most unwise to ignore ... continued
- Dec 14, 2008 8:48am
 Re: ImgPlace: "No hassles", writes Anitab of this site. I can't go along with that, as much as I'd like to. While the images I have hosted there have appeared where they were supposed to with great reliability, another problem presented itself semi-recently:
Me to them, Jan. 25 at 7:48 PM: I just tried logging into my account and got this error message
"Username or Password incorrect."
even when cutting and pasting my userid and password straight out of my confirmation letter, and when I tried password restoral got this message
"The email was not sent, maybe the wrong email address or the account does not exist"
The account most certainly does exist, as it is still serving photos, and this error message was, once again, replicated when I cut and pasted my address from the aforementioned confirmation letter. With more than fair confidence, then, I can state that the error is not at my end.
Please take care of this, assuming, of course, that your gmail account isn't one of the ones which has been hacked.
Kyle Kapper responding to me, same day: I will fix this within 36 hours.
Thanks, Kyle
[quoted text deleted from this post for brevity]
--
Kyle Kapper
WizTeen Inc.
Kapper Enterprises LLC.
Me to Kyle, Jan. 31: Apparently not. It is now five days later, and I still can't log into my account or get the system to send me a new password, or even acknowledge that I used this e-mail account to register.
Me to Kyle, Feb.9 : Kyle, I've been trying to keep a sense of humor about this, but we are now well into February, and access to my account has still not been restored. You assured me that this would be taken care of within 36 hours; it is now over two weeks later.
Are you going to fix this soon, or do I need to set up a new account elsewhere? I certainly have been more than patient at this point.
It is now Feb.13 at the time of this writing, Kyle has still not written back and I am still locked out of an account which I can not gain access to, using the password cut out of the letter sent by the very system that generated it, that system still failing to acknowledge my e-mail address when I attempt a password restoration request. Is this a hacker having fun with my account, or maybe Kyle's account, as one can find reports on the Gmail Help Googlegroup of hijacked gmail accounts, or is imgplace fouling up its own records without outside help? I'm not in a position to know, but I do know that where help was clearly called for and needed, only handholding was to be seen.
Followup: here
- Dec 14, 2008 8:48am
 The fun with ImgPlace from above continues ...
I found myself becoming curious: just how long would Mr. Kapper continue to drag out this process? Keep in mind, as you read this, that all that is being asked of him is that he restore a password that his own system mangled as is now failing to restore itself, as it has failed to remember the address to which it sent that confirmation letter, not so very long before this problem first arose. I've written that password down and am entering it, verbatim, from my own hardwritten records, so there is no possibility whatsoever that I'm remembering it incorrectly; ImgPlace is clearly at fault, and is merely being asked to repair the damage its own actions have caused. All that Kyle is being asked to do to repair that damage is carry out a simple password restoration, something that most sites do in under a minute in cases in which the user is at fault, and my first request for assistance went in on January 25, 2008. Will he budge? Let's see.
Me to Kyle Kapper, Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:30 AM
I last wrote to you about this a little over a month ago, on February 9, following an initial problem report on January 25. It is now March 12, 47 days later, you have not restored my access to my account as you promised, and you haven't even responded to the reminder I sent you on Feb.9.
So, yes or no - are you going to fix this problem? If so, specifically when are you planning to do so?
Kyle Kapper to Me, Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:26 AM
what is ur username will look today
Me to Kyle Kapper, Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Username: joseph_dunphy
Me to Kyle Kapper, Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Ummm, Kyle ....
It's now been another week, more or less, and I have given you my username (joseph_dunphy). How goes progress on that password restoration, which, by the way, I've now been waiting on since January 25, over two months ago?
As of the time of this update (April 3, 2008 at 11:34 am Chicago time), Kapper has still has not restored access to my account. As a prospective user of this service (ImgPlace.com) or any other service associated with Mr. Kapper's company, the most unhumbly named Wizteen.com, I would think that the reader should, at the very least, be asking himself "does the guy ever do what he says he's going to do". As we enter spring, watching Kyle fail to act on a simple user request that has been pending since Winter was little over a month old, I think that we find that the answer to that would seem to be "no".
This review is now finished. As it now has recently become the tenth ranked result in searches under Kapper's name, if Kyle doesn't know that I'm reviewing him, he almost certainly will very soon, leaving us with the usual unanswerable questions about his motives, should I continue to observe his actions. After well over two months of foot dragging on his part, I think that any reasonable individual would have to agree that the man has been given more than a fair chance to cast himself and his company in a better light, anyway.
Related Post: here
- Dec 14, 2008 8:47am
- Pretty Lady
- Dec 14, 2008 8:47am
 (1 review) http://ohprettylady.blogspot.com/ -
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to read the journal of a spoiled brat who defined enlightenment as being the willingness of others to satisy her every whim without question ... then I'm assuming that you weren't in the United States during the 1990s. No matter, if you missed that decade the first time around and for some reason regret the loss, the spirit of what should be a bygone and perhaps best forgotten cultural era lives on in this woman's writings ... continued.
- Dec 14, 2008 8:45am
I tried to review one of the posts on this blog, one entitled On Picking Up Checks, but the Stumbleupon system wouldn't let me discover the site. I went there, clicked on the "thumbs down" button, and nothing happened. Then I found that somebody had discovered the blog itself, and decided that posting here would do. While reviewing an entire blog based on a single post might seem a little hasty, the post was so thoroughly obnoxious that I found myself feeling far more comfortable with the idea of doing that, than with that of crawling around in the muck of the author's mental world any more than I already had.
The author writes:
"Women, girls, self-described 'feminists' all: listen to the voice of experience. Check-paying has nothing to do with equality between the genders, good sex, or feminism. Check-paying is the simplest, most accurate method of ascertaining whether you are on a date with a man, or with a bizarre specimen of animated pond slime."
going on to engage in a feeding frenzy like binge of character assassination directed against those men who ask the woman to split the check on a date, listing all of the distasteful things that they will supposedly do, and never mind the fact that plenty of couples can be found who have split the check, in which the men have done none of these things. The strikingly ugly "prettylady" goes on to write
"A man who does not pick up the check is a man who values his pocketbook more than he values your opinion. ... In short, any man who does not appreciate the privilege of being allowed to take you to dinner for the simple glory of your lustrous presence should be shunned like the mutant he is."
an arrogant remark that makes her remark about the "man whose ego is so out of control that he believes he is God's gift to promiscuous women" all the more amusingly ironic
The question that she doesn't seem to grasp is a question is why the man should feel any more or less privileged to be on the date than the woman; is his company worth less than hers? One hears a demand that the man show his appreciation of the woman, but not even the slightest hint of how the woman ought to be reciprocating or even of any tolerance of the notion that she might; note the quoted comment about the man valuing his checkbook more than the woman's opinion. But in context, what is the woman's opinion about? Whether or not he ought to be opening his checkbook for her, in effect paying her for her company, and what was the technical term for that, again?
[ continued ]
- Dec 14, 2008 8:45am
Continuing my review of Pretty Lady from above ...
We are left with a dire warning that such a man might respond to an unreasonable request with the word "no". As I mentioned on this page over at Google, the fact of the matter is that we do live in an era in which anti-male discrimination is rampant in the workplace, and so if anything, one could make a reasonable case that the woman should be the one picking up the check, in our (post-baby boomer) generation, because she is the one who has found the doors of opportunity being opened, instead of being slammed in her face and bolted shut. Were we living back in the world of years past, expecting the man to pay might have made some degree of sense, because the man was far likelier to have money to spend, but in a world which has radically changed and rendered those expectations obsolete, we have some like this author who, in a wholy unprincipled and adversarial way, is fighting to make sure that she keeps what's hers, and that other women don't undermine her by daring to act reasonably and taking present realities into account when making decisions in the present. I'm not surprised that her date abandoned her; I'm not sure why he asked her out in the first place.
(Originally posted December 28, 2007 at 7:56 am)
- Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print
 Dec 14, 2008 8:44am (967 reviews) books http://www.readprint.com/-
 Free, post-copyright literature, most of it by authors you probably heard about in school, unless you went to one of those schools where everybody hugs each other and grades don't matter. Yes, you could find almost all of this in your local bookstores - but the owners would probably expect you to pay for it. You'll get a much better deal here.
- Myoats - Large Image
- Dec 14, 2008 8:44am (1 review) arts, art http://www.myoats.com/image.aspx?dd=2070
-
Another pleasant design from MyOats (named "Fluffy 75"), which I mentioned in an earlier review.
- Myoats - Large Image
- Dec 14, 2008 8:42am (1 review) graphic-design, art http://www.myoats.com/image.aspx?dd=3072
-
Surprisingly delicate result (entitled "Rosace en terre") created with the MyOats software.
|
I like them
Meet another member
