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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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    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