Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to foxipher!!!! Have a great one!!!

Done yesterday (20101029 Fr)

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A pretty good day, I think. At work, I finally got the last few bugs out of my code, though it needs some more testing before I'll call it done. I spent my lunchtime on the phone with Apple, registering my complaint about "PeekabooTranny". I went in through their "small business" number, on the grounds that I'm a musician who sells through the iTunes store. The inability of their speech-recognition system to get usable keywords from what I was telling it and the bafflement of their call center people (possibly in India, from the sound of it) when I finally got through to them made for a rather frustrating experience, but the second try got me the corporate number, 408-996-1010, where the word "complaint" got me through almost immediately to a helpful woman who took my comments and also referred me to the website. She had some trouble looking up the url, but I already knew it. Which says something, I guess. Not sure what.

You'll find the text of my second comment, written after I realized that I might have more leverage as a musician than as a random non-customer, up there under the cut.

A little singing, but I stopped after two songs because congestion was making it difficult. Nasal semivowels, in particular, rapidly ran up against the lack of a functional nose. I spent the rest of the evening eating chili peppers and horseradish in hopes that they would loosen things up enough not to need another dose of topical decongestant. They didn't help all that much, but between that, diphenhydramine, phenelephrine, fluticasone proprionate, and a hot bath, I managed. Grr.

Hmm. The only link I see up there is to our new VP of Engineering's a cappella group, Curious Blend.