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Welcome to the Oddblog, where we prattle on incessantly about bug fixes, feature additions and all things Oddpost. Please 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.
| Wednesday, December 31, 2003 |
Publishing a development weblog can be a two-edged sword. On the one hand [think of, then insert something good about it here], but on the other it can set up some fairly unreasonable expectations. For example, when eight weeks recently passed between posts, we received a phone call that went something like: "Hello, Oddpost. Um, yes, just checking that you guys are still in business. Why yes we are. Are you having trouble with your account? No, just noticed that the blog hadn't been updated in a while, and..." Hmm-uh. Back when we were working on shrink-wrapped software, knocking out a release once a year was considered cooking. Now it seems that if we don't blog about a release at least once a month people start getting antsy. So, in lieu of compressing our development cycle from two-ish months down to one-ish, we've decided to just start indiscriminately blogging about whatever crap comes to mind, release or no release. Having thoroughly reviewed the state of the art, we enthusiastically present the following:
We have a serious fruit fly problem at the office (artist's concept). It all started when our trash bin was stolen. Golden Gate Disposal replaced the bin with one that did not lock. Few can resist the urge to pass an unlocked trash bin on the sidewalk and not dump in leftover chow mein, and few did. Next thing you know we've got fruit flies circling our heads, flitting up our noses and sipping on our lattes. We decided to do everything in our power to rid ourselves of this plague so long as that thing was not cleaning the trash bin. Aerosols were sprayed. Red wine was poured. Vinegar traps were set. Iain even began using the vacuum cleaner extension wand to suction them to death. There'd be complete silence in the office except for the quiet tapping of keyboards, and then WHAM somebody would slam their palm onto their desk or CRACK clap their hands above their head or VUZZZZ maniacally vacuum the surrounding air. Just when it seemed yours truly would need to move the appointment for his adult diaper fitting up by about 40 years, a nice man took away our old bin and replaced it with a new one that locks. Now we're just waiting to see if the flies die before we do.
So there you have it. Our New Year's resolution is to rein in our breakneck development speed so that we might produce a greater number of we're-still-here fluff posts like the above.
JK. Early in 2G4 your patience will be rewarded with a faster overall user experience (thanks to the forthcoming new improved backend), some features you've been expecting for a long time and several you never knew to expect but will wish you had expected in retrospect. Thank you for your business (particularly Ginny's business, because she sent us a holiday card) and happy New Year!
12:31:28 AM 
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