Daynote ,Svenson

It is dry but rather because the clouds haven't decided where to unload. With 6C, low grey clouds and some brisk wind in the morning. By evening we get a few (exactly 2) break overhead revealing a week sun. Summer is nothing but some wistful memory.

; return trueoen is back. Without visible outside damage. His lip has been stitched though so he cannot shave (which is why nothing is visible). He couldn't eat for the better part of last week and for drinking he had to use a straw. (Ever tried drinking coffee with a straw?)

Anyway, he is back so he joins in on the discussion about the problem that was being pushed my way on Monday. After discussing it for about half the day we conclude that ... a bug has to be solved and one link has to be added to an existing program. Do I love these discussions ;-(

And then Francis comes around with a problem (different but related to the address problem) that must be solved. One can select/use an address that is not an invoice address for the module in use. Should be blocked and seems not to be. Hmm ...

 

The daynotes.com is still out of service. Enough mirrors exist (for example at Brian's site or check the one at Dan Bowman). The back-chanel mailing list is not working either, mail doesn't bounce off but nothing gets passed on either. I have got a list of mail addresses strun toghether on my mirror but a list of mails is something different from a mailing list.

I had a problem with Red Corp . they list prices in Belgian franks (BEF) but have a button to transform those into Euro (EUR). They also have two links to select prices with or without VAT. That seemed not to work at all. Either I got BEF with VAT or EUR without VAT or BEF without VAT. Whenever I then went to another page I would end up in BEF without VAT. I mailed their webmaster. In stead of the usual, automatic "we will look at" confirmation I got a reasonable but not entirely helpful reply. At least some living person was at work there.
Sensing that someone there was willing to help I did some testing in Netscape and then some in MS IE and in Opera. All of them doing strange things wrong, all different. So it's not, as I first feared, just an 'optimised for MS IE' site. And replied with my results. About ten minutes later they asked if I had cookies enabled.
Of course I hadn't so I enabled them and presto. Works like a charm. This type of service is worth rewarding with some business I think.
To put a crown on their performance they mentioned they had been able to eliminate a bug on their site thanks to my information. They offer me a 30Guilders voucher for the help. Now how can I not love them?
I am not sure that ordering from Red Corp is interesting if you don't live in Belgium or the Netherlands but if you live in this corner of the world its worth giving them a visit.

Adios