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Hey Weekly Dig, You’re Doing It Wrong

andrew — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:16:22 +0000

This is THE definition of a FAIL.

You are the Weekly Dig.

You are a newspaper.

Your sole purpose, and your industry’s sole purpose, is to disseminate information.

You sign up for a service (twitter) which is designed to help you achieve this task of information dissemination.

You decide to “protect” your updates, thus disallowing the information to be disseminated.

WordPress FAIL

andrew — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:02:22 +0000

And all this time I just thought people didn’t care what I was posting. While that may actually be the case, it turns out commenting was broken on the site for god knows how long.

Thanks to Noah for pointing it out. Should be all better now.

Good Internetting Amtrak!

andrew — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:42:28 +0000

By now you probably have at least seen this, which is awesome. But here is a bit more awesome Amtrak internetting!

I was looking at trains from Boston to NYC, and on the dates I was looking, there is some 10 options to NYC and some 3 options back…lots of combinations. I tried one and got this message:

Problem with Space Availability: Sorry, one or more segments of your itinerary may have sold out. Please select an alternate date or time, or call 1-800-USA-RAIL (1-800-872-7245) for assistance.

But it doesn’t tell you which route is sold out at which time, just a generic sold out error message. So I tried a few more combos and got the same result. Starting over and searching again for the same stuff, gave the same result.

Is having a detailed error message indicating which route is sold out too much to ask? Or how about just not showing the routes on the selection screen that are sold out?