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josephdunphy

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Joseph is a 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 must be viewed in Internet Explorer. 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.

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    Rated Dec 14 2008 • 7 reviews • stumblers • stumbleupon.com






    Hi, again. I'm in the process of turning this profile into something that will be more of a blog. A recurring theme will be my attempts to build on what I've seen on some of the sites I've reviewed; what did I learn from visiting them, what subjects did they touch on, etc. You might have noticed the continued post format I was playing around with on the Draka and Steak Porn Video reviews; expect to see more of that, with some of the short, one-liner reviews moved into the spaces between the essays. What I'm trying to get away from is the idea of Stumbleupon as a bookmarking site, as I move toward making this into a site that one can simply sit down and feel comfortable reading; more like a magazine and less like a phonebook, or something like that.

    Comments about Stumbleupon related drama, past and present, can be found elsewhere, if you really want to read about that for some reason.




    Browser selection - Please pardon the imperious tone in my comments above, but Stumbleupon surprised us by changing the background color on our pages. In IE, my blog has a black background, and you can see the links. In Firefox and Chrome, the background is white, so you can't, unless you have logged into Stumbleupon, in which case you might see a black background even after you log out, again. Very silly. I can't imagine what they were thinking about, when they did this. It definitely damages the functionality of our pages, and causes a needless headache for visitors to SU.

    I regret any inconvenience, but would point out that this wasn't my idea or doing, and that unlike the SU staff, I have no say in it. If you'd like to know when this will be fixed, they're the ones to ask. I wouldn't have the faintest idea, myself.


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    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.


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