Comments for Andrew Guyton's Blog

Comment on My Trouble With AT&T, Part 2 by Sparkles

Sparkles — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:28:54 +0000

Holy cow is that annoying! *crosses fingers* Here’s to hoping that a phone will be in hands in a week!!

“Throughout this process, I was always calm and respectful to the people I talked to, as they’re just doing their job, and (in my opinion) if they can’t do something, it’s better to ask them to transfer you to someone that has the ability to do so instead of yelling at them.”
As someone who’s had to work at a call center (for a tax website – oi!) as well as in several customer service jobs, I really appreciate that. Unless they specifically note that they’re a supervisor/manager, there really aren’t any rules they can bend for the customer without possibly losing the job. Wish more people followed that advice as well.

Comment on My Trouble With AT&T by Sunira

Sunira — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:27:52 +0000

FYI I’ve owned a Touch Pro for the past nine months and I don’t care how pretty it looks on paper, the device simply cannot hold a candle to the iPhone. The pretty inferface that HTC appears to have painstakingly put on top of it really only masks the problems with Windows Mobile. It was frequently slow, required many restarts, GPS never picked up in a reasonable time and the interface was laggy if you opened any two things at once. It could be as simple as a twitter client and text messaging.

I think you definitely made the right decision. Until Windows Mobile is rewritten from scratch, it will likely still bear the marks of its retarded predecessors.

Comment on Flickr Pro Review by Hector

Hector — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:41:09 +0000

I just got a Flickr Pro account about 2 weeks ago, and I’m totally loving it.

Best $25 I’ve spent this year.

Comment on Deceptive Design by Micah

Micah — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:13:20 +0000

What you’ve encountered is essentially a case of the third party password anti-pattern along with the spam your contacts anti-pattern.

Basically, don’t ever use that spammy “import your friends from your gmail” crap. It’s a very dangerous habit to get into.

http://microformats.org/wiki/social-network-anti-patterns

Comment on Deceptive Design by Jake

Jake — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:35:58 +0000

Um, pretty much every Facebook “App” that isn’t written by some sort of reputable company or Facebook itself.

Comment on Crappy video games explained by Dave

Dave — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:23:07 +0000

I can believe that. There are so many games for the Wii that simply fall short of all expectations. Have you ever played one of the Petz games? Marcia has one for the Wii, and its graphics look like they are straight from the Nintendo 64. Not even Gamecube quality! Nintendo is happily giving random companies the rights to flood the shelves with crap, if only to deepen their own pockets.

Now, the Wii is still my favorite console. I limit myself only to Nintendo-made games; 3rd parties do not compare.

Comment on Online Gaming! by Billy

Billy — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:34:33 +0000

I’ll send those over tonight. Chalk one up on that human comment count, btw.