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Welcome to the Oddblog, where we prattle on incessantly about bug fixes, feature additions and all things Oddpost. Click "comments" to add your two cents, unless those two cents are a bug report or feature request, in which case we kindly request that you email bugs@oddpost.com or features@oddpost.com. Finally, note that if there are no announcements on a given day, it does in fact mean we were out blowing your subscriber dollars on handcrafted doilies and pink champagne.
| Friday, December 05, 2003 |
Oddpost is an amazing place to work. The benefits are great and our employees are well-paid. The hours are reasonable and the vacation plan quite generous. So it's really no surprise that we receive hundreds of resumes per hour, most of which we shred on the way to the company cafeteria where breakfast, second breakfast, lunch, second lunch, dinner and late-night snack are all prepared free-of-charge by a former chef of the French Laundry and which Zagat called "as good a place as any to possibly spot the Olsen Twins" while enjoying "mouth-watering chickpea crusted black grouper" in an "intimate Afro-Cuban setting." From there it's off to the 'loo where an intern/PhD candidate (pfff) stands at the ready to rush the triumphant conclusion off to Paris for infusion into the world's finest perfumes. It is into this milieu of uber-excellence that we bid benvenuto to Peter Hicks, kickin' the I straight to the melon farming T while putting together the aforementioned new improved mother of all backends.
5:29:15 PM 
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To the ever-growing stable of highly proprietary Oddpost intellectual property (which currently includes, inter alia, a hard-won set of bookmarks into the deepest bowels of MSDN), we now add knowledge of how to cancel the browser's unbelievably tenacious default Ctrl-F Find behavior. What does this mean for YOU? Well just you go ahead and forward an email by typing Ctrl-F. Used to be that unless you possessed as light a touch as David Carradine's rice paper footsteps, the message would forward and you'd get the browser's Find dialog. Now you just get exactly what you'd expect, which, as we've come to learn from a steady stream of heart-warming correspondence, is nothing less than total perfection.
12:00:14 PM
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[engineer 1, wiping tear from eye] ...oh ha ha...gosh yes...and, and remember when pasting text into the body of a message sometimes moved the insertion point to the *end* of the message!? Man, we were so crazy back then...[engineer 2, breathlessly] Or wait, what about the time when if you hit the Backspace key in the main window the whole app would reload! [snort] Hold up, hold up: 8 words, 12 syllables: that bug where the toolbar's icons showed up doubled on monitors with Properties->Settings->Advanced [in unison] SET TO 120 DPI INSTEAD OF 96 DPI! [rofl rofl rofl] [engineer 1, shaking head] Good times, good times.
11:59:16 AM
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"Checking other mail." Three powerful words, shrouded in mystery. But not the good kind of mystery. No, the kind of mystery that makes you say "What the hummuna hummuna is taking so long? Oddpost suxxors." Well actually, Oddpost frickin' roxxors, which we now demonstrate quite clearly by displaying progress information as we fetch your external mail. But did we stop there? No! We also now load your Inbox before we go out and fetch your external mail, which means that when some other mail server is slow your Oddpost experience suffers not.
11:58:23 AM
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As someone who is already an Oddpost subscriber, you will probably not care that we have added a new user wizard to simplify the process of hooking Oddpost up to your existing email account(s). However, you really should care, because this, plus getting all nuded up, rolling around in a trough of hot mango chutney and posting the pictures to the Photographic Odyssey will make Oddpost more, how you say...sticky? which means more subscribers, which means happy long life for Oddpost.
11:57:31 AM
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We prefer not to draw too much attention to the fact that you can now use Oddpost to check your Yahoo! Mail (see File->External Mail Accounts or File->Account Setup Wizard). It's still in beta. Shhh.
11:56:46 AM
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Oddpost's performance degraded steadily over the month of November. This was primarily due to a memory leak on our servers, but was also somewhat related to strong subscriber growth. The memory leak has since been located and fixed (it was, by the way, unrelated to the leak mentioned back in September), and we're roughly seven weeks away from releasing a much faster and significantly more scaleable backend system. We thank you for your patience and apologize for the unusually stern tone of this post.
11:55:50 AM
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